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Peanut Butter Bread

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Peanut butter has been a long time friend of mine.

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It has been there with me through several phases and stages in my life. It has stuck with me through thick and thin. It has been stuck in the middle of a sandwich with grape jelly. It has been stuck in the middle of a sandwich with banana. It has been stuck in the middle of a sandwich with marshmallow fluff. It has also been stuck on the roof of my mouth a lot. But I digress…

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Sometimes you think of a recipe and are like “Why is this just making sense to me now?!”. That is basically peanut butter bread [for me].

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I felt slightly guilty making this recipe because for some reason, my dad (the pb&j-aholic), does not appreciate peanut butter cookies, breads, frostings, or basically any recipe based around peanut butter. And this recipe happens to be peanut butter on steroids. But that just meant more for me!

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This recipe is delicious by itself, but if you want to spruce it up, it would be something special if you put in a cup of chopped nuts or a cup or chocolate chips! I loved having a slice of this everyday after school, it’s great to give you a little boost of energy and is amazing with some grape jelly spread on top. Or by yourself if you don’t have the patience for spreading jelly..

Peanut Butter Bread

(Makes 1 loaf)

1 cup whole wheat flour

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 Tablespoon baking powder

1/4 cup butter

1/2 cup white sugar

1/4 cup brown sugar

1 cup peanut butter

1 egg

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup milk (I used skim)

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray your loaf pan with cooking spray. Mine was a silicone loaf pan, but I sprayed it anyways just for good measure.
  2. In a small bowl whisk together flours and baking powder until fully combined. Set aside
  3. Using the mixer, cream together the butter, sugar, and peanut butter until combined and smooth. Mix in the egg and vanilla. Be sure to scrape down the sides to include everyone in the party!
  4. Add dry ingredients to peanut butter mixtures and slowly mix together until combined and crumbly. Slowly add in the milk and mix until fully incorporated.
  5. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and bake in preheated oven for 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out mostly clean. Let cool for about 20 minutes in loaf pan and then cut and enjoy!

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Marble Pound Cake

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Spring break is coming up! WOOOHOO

Marble Pound Cake | Beautiful Disasters Normally my mom, dad, and I always go somewhere tropical but this year my dad is gonna stay home and work. It stinks that he can’t come with my mom and I to Key West, but I’ll be happy to spend the week with my mom. It’s weird that it will be my last spring break with them before I go to college! :o

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Normally by now, I would have composed about 3 different packing lists for spring break with about 60 different possible outfit combinations and everything planned out to a T on which cosmetic bag I will be bringing and what shoes I will wear with each outfit and what underwear to wear with what clothes…I mean, I guess you could say I’m a bit of a list-maker.

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But this year is like woah, totally different. Not a single list has been made yet! Scratch that-I sort of have a mental grocery list going on in my head of the food we’ll need my dad to get because Easter is the day after we get back. Yikes.

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So anyways, I guess most normal people might not make a packing list (let alone, multiples) a month ahead of their trip, but I am having slight anxiety from not having a list yet. It’s just there has been SO MUCH to do! Senior year is not as “care-free” as some people may make it out to be. I have projects on projects on projects, and now that soccer season is in full swing, it is a bit of struggle to keep up with everything and then have the blog on top of that.

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Needless to say, a vacation to sunny Key West is very much needed :) And a pedicure wouldn’t do any harm…Soccer feet are not a pretty site with flip flops, friends.

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Oh and one more thing, this marble pound cake was a sinch to whip up! It looks so impressive with the swirls, but it really takes hardly any effort, just refer to the pictures if my written instructions in the recipe don’t make sense. This pound cake has the perfect amount of sweetness for a nice breakfast treat, but isn’t too sweet that you would call it a dessert. Perfect for out anti-dessert-during-Lent family!

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Marble Pound Cake

(Makes 1 loaf)

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened

1 cup all purpose flour

3/4 cup whole wheat flour

1 Tablespoon cornstarch

2 teaspoons baking powder

pinch of salt

1 cup white sugar

3 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

a little less than 2/3 cups combined with a heaping 1/2 Tablespoon white vinegar (or just 2/3 cup buttermilk)

1/4 cup plus 1 Tablespoon cocoa powder (I used dark cocoa powder)

1/4 cup plus 2 Tablespoons hot water

  1. Preheat oven to 35o˚F. Spray a 9-inch by 5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray. Set aside.
  2. In a medium bowl, sift together flours, cornstarch, baking powder, and salt. Using a stand mixer or a hand mixer, cream together butter and sugar in a large bowl. Add in eggs one at a time. Mix in vanilla extract. Alternating with the milk-white vinegar mixture, add in the dry ingredients in 3 batches, starting with dry ingredients. So add about 1/3 of the flour mixture, then half the milk mixture, then another 1/3 of the flour mixture, remaining milk mixture, then remaining flour mixture.
  3. Place 1/3 of the of the batter into a medium bowl. Combine cocoa powder and hot water until thoroughly mixed. Mix chocolate mixture into separated batter, until thoroughly combined.
  4. To put together the pound cake, drop 3 dallops of the plain batter into the bottom of the loaf pan, be sure they are in a zig-zag formation and make it look like a checkerboard, by dropping 3 dallops of the chocolate batter into the bottom next to each of the plain batter dallops. Repeat this for 3 layers, dropping alternating batters on top of eachother (so the chocolate batter will now go on top of plain, and plain on top of chocolate). Refer to the picture above in the post!!
  5. When you have finished adding the final layer of batter (You should have about 3 layers), use a knife and swirl through the batter in whatever patterns you like to make swirls. Be creative! Be sure you get your knife all the way to the bottom of the loaf pan so that the swirls go throughout the entire cake.
  6. Bake in preheated oven for 40-50 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool on wire rack or about 15 minutes, then invert out of loaf pan and let cool on wire rack completely. Slice and enjoy! Store leftovers in cake dome or sealed container.

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White-Wheat Batter Bread

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So where did March come from? Like I could have sworn I was just making Christmas cookies and drinking hot cocoa.

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I know February always has less days, but it seriously FLEW by this year! I have to admit, as much as I am looking forward to the warm, sunny days of summer, I am kind of scared for high school to finish.  My last season of high school soccer officially starts this week and it is so bittersweet.

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I know there is so much to look forward to with college and what not but the unknown is still pretty freaky to me.

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Womp womp wooomp. Sorry for such a Monday-moody post, here’s some super easy sandwich bread that you you don’t need to knead. (heh..”need to knead”) It’s tasty, and has soft insides with a real crusty crust. You know, as opposed to those non-crusty crusts.

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White-Wheat Batter Bread

(Makes 1 loaf)

1 package dry yeast

1 1/2 cups warm milk (I used skim)

3 Tablespoons butter, room temperature

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

1 Tablespoon white sugar

1 cup whole wheat flour

2 cups all-purpose flour

  1. Combine warmed milk and butter in a large bowl. Sprinkle the dry yeast over the mixture and stir, let sit for a minute or so. Add the salt, sugar, and 1 cup of all-purpose flour and 1 cup whole wheat flour. Using a wooden spoon, stir vigorously for about 2 minutes, this will be a good arm workout! If you prefer, you may use the stand mixer and mix with the paddle attachment for about 1 minute, instead. 
  2. Add the remaining 1 cup of all-purpose flour and beat well. Pour the batter into a greased 4-inch by 9-inch loaf pan. Wet your fingers and smooth the top of the bread batter.  With a sharp knife, make a couple slashes along the bread. Cover lightly with a towel and let rise to the top of the loaf pan, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bake bread 375˚F oven for about 45 minutes. At about the 25 minute mark, I covered the top of my bread with a small piece of foil to prevent the top of the bread from getting any browner. After baking for 45 minutes, let the bread cool for about 5-10 minutes, then turn bread onto rack and finish cooling. Enjoy!

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Peanut Butter Banana Bread

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Peanut butter and banana may not seem like the most traditional combination to some people, but I just can not get enough of it. Peanut butter and banana sandwiches are like my life. (Yes, I lead a thrilling life)

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If you haven’t tried a peanut butter and banana sandwich. Do it NOW. Then make this bread…

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Back to the bread, it *does* have the peanut butter and banana combo going on but the banana is truly the shining star in this recipe. The peanut butter almost just gives it a little sweetness with a tiny hint of a different nutty flavor. If you want more of a peanut taste in here, chopped up peanuts (or any other nuts) would be awesome!

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Peanut Butter Banana Bread

(Makes one loaf)

1 cup whole wheat flour

1 cup all-purpose flour

pinch of salt

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

3 bananas

2 eggs

1 little less than 1/3 cup skim milk mixed with 1 teaspoon of white vinegar (or 1/3 cup buttermilk)

1/4 cup vegetable oil

1/2 cup peanut butter

1/2 cup white sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 Tablespoon vanilla extract

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray loaf pan with cooking spray, set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, whisk together flours, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
  3. In a separate bowl, whisk together smashed bananas, peanut butter, oil, milk-vinegar mixture (or buttermilk), eggs, sugars,and vanilla extract. Once combined mix wet ingredients into dry ingredients and stir with a rubber spatula until completely combined with no streaks of flour.
  4. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and bake in preheated oven for 60-75 minutes or until comes out witha few crumbs on it. If the bread is browning quicker than the middle is cooking, you can cover the top with foil partway through.

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Whole Wheat Chocolate Zucchini Bread

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I don’t know if any of you have ever been to Minneapolis, Minnesota or not, but I was just visiting there for my first time ever last weekend. I have narrowed down my college search to [I think] two schools, University of Illinois and University of Minnesota. I had never actually been to University of Minnesota before, but it looked good on paper to me. Anyways, before I make any final decisions, I thought that it would be a good idea to at least check it out in person, which is what I did last weekend, which brings me back to what I really want to talk about.

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They have their train on the same road that cars drive on. Call me crazy, but it was a bit alarming to see the lights of a train right behind the car when we were driving. Particularly for my mom. Me? Well, I was a little busy peeing in my pants laughing at my mom who was driving.

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Anyways, after I learned more about it, the train seemed to make more sense, it would be super convenient for students and what-not, but a little confusing for drivers (to say the very least!). I’m guessing their trains in Minneapolis can brake a lot better than the ones around where I’m from, because there is no way I would be alive if I was in a car that close to a train in Chicago like I was in Minneapolis. Despite the seemingly near-death experience, I loved Minnesota and definitely consider it a very possible option.

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Buuuuut it was nice to get back home and in the kitchen. I had some zucchinis that I needed to use up, so I decided to make a recipe for those of you holding strong with those healthy New Years Resolutions. Whole wheat CHOCOLATE (mmm) Zucchini Bread. Bake up and dig in, friends!

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Whole Wheat Chocolate Zucchini Bread

2 eggs

1 cup white sugar

1/3 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup plus 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/4 cup buttermilk (I used 1/4 cup skim milk and about 1 teaspoon white vinegar)

1 1/2 cups grated zucchini

1 cup whole wheat flour (or if you only have all-purpose, that’ll do)

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (I used dark cocoa)

pinch of salt

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a loaf pan with cooking spray and set aside.
  2. In a bowl, whisk together eggs, sugars, vegetable oil, vanilla extract, and buttermilk. Then stir in grated zucchini. Set aside.
  3. In a larger bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa powder, and salt. Mix wet ingredients into dry ingredients using a rubber spatula. Make sure batter is thoroughly mixed and combined. Scrape batter into prepared loaf pan.
  4. Bake in preheated oven for 45-50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool in loaf pan for about 20 minutes, then remove from pan. Enjoy!

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