Showing posts with label pecans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pecans. Show all posts

Sunday, 12 December 2010

Pecan and Banana Bread

Whipped up a quick Pecan and Banana Bread when I was stranded at home due to the snow! You can't go wrong with a warm Banana bread and the pecans were just an added bonus.


Ingredients:
125g self raising flour
65g caster sugar
65g light brown sugar
125g butter
2 eggs
2 ripe bananas
50g pecans

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Line a loaf tin with baking paper or grease with butter.
2. Cream together the sugars and the butter until light and fluffy.
3. Stir in one egg before adding half the flour. Repeat.
4. Mash up the bananas in a seperate bowl before stirring into the cake mixutre.
5. Chop up the pecans into small pieces and fold into the mixture, saving some for the top.
6. Pour the mixture into the loaf tin, before sprinkling on your remaining pecans.
7. Bake for around 30-40 minutes, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.


I'll be back tomorrow with a Christmas related post which I used as a procrastination for revision! So, I'll leave you with a photo of my back garden in the snow...
 

Thursday, 5 August 2010

Chocolate Chip & Pretzel Cookie Bars.

July's recipe for TSR's baking club was chosen by The White Cat Baker and you can find the recipe for the Chocoate Chip & Pretzel Cookie Bars here!

I'm not the biggest fan of Pretzels but I did go to the supermarket in hope of finding some small ones but no luck! I decided to substitute the pretzels with pecans - and as the recipe provides 32 bars (depending on how you cut it I'd imagine) I thought that pecans would go down better with the family.





(As you can see, my attempts of drizzling chocolate were a bit rubbish - I just threw some chocolate curls on top in frustration ha!)


They were more like a cake than a cookie in my opinion. I think the recipe would need a bit more flour to become a cookie as the dough wasn't as firm as cookie dough is. Taste definately improves after a couple of days and it becomes more of an inbetween of cookie and cake. Definately worth a try at least!

Links to the other blogs : The White Cat Baker, Dulwich Munchies, Internet Gems, Sarah Cooks and Peachy Tarts