Monday, August 20, 2007

Baked goods

Got busy doing some baking yesterday - needed to use up some bananas and some zucchini. I've tossed two recipe I'd been using for Julie's banana bread (the loaves on the left), and Mary's choco-zucchini cupcakes (from last month's Better Homes & Gardens magazine) on the right.

Mary let me in on a little secret with the cupcakes. She got lazy. Instead of shredded 2 cups of zucchini and adding it to 3 eggs, she dropped the three eggs and a large (more than 2 cups worth!) zucchini, chunked up, in the BLENDER! Not a food processor, but the blender. She whizzed it up til it was frothy, and then proceeded with the recipe. WOW - that's a great change! If I hadn't told Brett there was zucchini in these cupcakes (meaning he won't eat them now), he never would've known!

And to really go over the top, the cupcakes come with a peanut butter frosting recipe - wowza! It's very pale with all the powdered sugar and air whipped into it, but soooo good!


"Mmmmm....you know you want me..."

3 comments:

the ginger tabby said...

Tasty!! Those cupcakes look superb!!

Jeph said...

I'll report back and let you know what the coworkers say tomorrow!

Peter said...

Meanwhile, your fussy (though admittedly hot) BF won't even eat them. I adore Brett, but jeepers is he a weirdo about some things.