•BEST EVER Banana Bread•

For my sister's wedding we bought banana's to dip in the chocolate fountain and my mom bought WAY too many.  So she gave us a big bunch of them, which I added to our already overflowing basket of banana's at home!!  They slowly started turing very ripe and my kids don't like them unless they are "fresh!"  Well I had to do something with them and what better thing to bake than a batch of banana bread AND banana chocolate chip muffins - YUM!!  My SIL Jodie (from her SIL Katie) gave me this recipe and it's the best I have ever had!  Plus it calls for ALOT of bananas and makes plently...which is a good thing because we have been devouring them!!

BEST EVER Banana Bread and Muffins --

1 c. Butter

3 c. Sugar

6 Eggs

3 c. Sour Cream

4 tsp. Soda

2 tsp. Vanilla

4-5 Mashed Bananas

1 tsp. Salt

5 c. Flour

1 pkg Chocolate Chips (optional)**

Cream together the butter, sugar and eggs.  Mix together in a seperate bowl the sour cream and soda, let stand until foamy.  Combine and add remaining ingredients and mix well.  Place in 4 greased and floured 9x5 in. bread pans.  Bake 350* for 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.

TIPS:

Low fat varieties of sour cream and butter works well.

Can be halved.

**I placed half of the mixture in 2 bread pans WITHOUT chocolate chips and baked for 50 min.

Than I added 1 bag of choco chips to remaining batter and made muffins.  I cooked them for about 10-12 minutes.  It made approx. 40 muffins:)  These are SoOoOo good and we have already finished off half of them....they made a GREAT breakfast for my kiddos!!

Recipe's that need to be tried...

As I was searching today I came across these two recipes that sound YUMMY and I can't wait to try them...I will let you know if they are keepers!! :)

SCRAMBLED EGG MUFFINS
1/2 lb. bulk pork sausage (or bacon or ham)12 eggs1/2 C. chopped yellow onion1/4 C. chopped green pepper (optional)1/2 tsp. salt1/4 tsp. pepper1/4 tsp. garlic powder1/2 C. shredded cheddar cheese
Cook sausage over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Beat eggs in a bowl ad then add onion, green pepper, salt, pepper and garlic powder. Stir in sausage and cheese. Spoon by 1/3 cupfuls into greased muffin cups and bake for 20-25 minutes at 350 degrees or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean.

BLUEBERRY KUCHEN1 1/2 C. all purpose flour3/4 C. sugar2 tsp. baking powder1 1/2 tsp. grated lemon peel1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg1/4 tsp. salt2/3 C. milk1/4 C. butter, melted1 egg, beaten1 tsp. vanilla extract2 C. frozen or fresh blueberries
TOPPING:3/4 C. sugar1/2 C. flour1/4 C. butter
Combine first 6 ingredients in a mixing bowl. Add milk, butter, egg & vanilla and beat for 2 minutes or until well blended. Pour into a greased 9x13 baking pan. Sprinkle with blueberries. Combine sugar, flour and butter in a small mixing bowl and toss with a fork until crumbly; sprinkle over blueberries. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes or until lightly browned.