Banana Bread

1/4c. Vegetable Oil
1/2c. Sugar
1 Egg
3 Ripe Bananas
1 1/2c. Flour
2 tsp. Baking Powder
1/2 tsp. Baking Soda
1/2 tspn. Salt
1/2c. Chopped Walnuts

Mix together oil and sugar, add egg. Add bananas. Mix dry ingredients and add to mixture. Add nuts if desired. Bake in greased loaf pan at 350 for 30-40 minutes. Check doneness with a toothpick.

Easter Bunny Cupcakes

1. Frost a cupcake (baked from your favorite recipe) with white icing and sprinkle on shredded coconut fur.

2. Cut a large marshmallow in half widthwise. Squeeze each half slightly to give it an oval shape, then decorate the sticky side of each one with pink decorators' sugar and set them in place for ears.

3. Add a jelly bean nose and either jelly bean or snipped Sweet Tart eyes, and mini marshmallows for cheeks. For a finishing touch, draw on decorators' gel pupils or whiskers if you like.

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Grilled Turkey & Cheese Sandwich

Mmm! Sandwiches are one of my favorite foods and it's hard to beat one that's grilled. They're so quick, easy, and the possibilities are endless. On those cold, wintry days I love to make grilled cheese sandwiches and a hot bowl of tomato soup.

Grilled Cheese Sandwich:
2 slices of bread
Sliced cheddar or Kraft singles
Optional: Turkey, Ham, Tuna Fish, etc.
Butter

Place the cheese and desired meat between the slices of bread. In frying pan, melt butter and place the sandwich in warm pan. Turn occasionally and be sure not to burn, grill until golden and cheese is melted.

Chocolate Surprise Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cookie dough-don't add chocolate chips
One Hershey Kiss for each cookie (you could also use peanut butter cups)
Melted chocolate chips mixed with 1Tbs. peanut butter

Heat oven to 375.
Prepare chocolate chip cookie recipe according to directions but omit the chocolate chips.
Spray a muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray or use cupcake liners.
Fill the muffin tin halfway with dough and bake for 6-8 minutes, just until baked all the way through.
Immediatley after removing from the oven, press and upwrapped Kiss into the center of the cookie.
Melt 1/4-1/2 cup chocolate chips in microwave, stirring every 35 seconds. When completley melted, add 1 Tbs. peanut butter and stir. Drizzle over cookies.
Remove cookies from muffin tin and let cool on wire wrack.

Barbeque Chicken

Nothing is easier than this! Just put some chicken breasts in the crockpot, cover with barbeque sauce, put the lid on, and turn on the crockpot! Then you can let it cook while you do whatever you need to and you don't have to worry about dinner. I stir the chicken around a few times while it's cooking, if I remember. After the chicken is cooked and no longer pink you can serve the chicken breasts whole or you can shred it and serve on a hamburger bun.
A great recipe for those busy days when dinner is the last thing on your mind.

Heavenly Cupcakes

1 box white cakemix
1 cup whole milk
1 cube of butter, softened
3 eggs
2 tspn. vanilla

Combine all ingredients, mix for 1 minute on low setting. Scrape the sides. Mix for 2minutes on medium setting. Bake according to directions on box.

Frosting
1 1/2cup butter
3-4+ cups powdered sugar
Almond or Vanilla flavoring
1/2 - 1 Tablespoon milk
Combine all ingredients except milk. *I would start with half of the butter and add as you go, if you feel like it needs more*Begin whipping and gradually add milk. Add additional powdered sugar and milk as needed to reach desired consistancy.

Sugar Sprinkles

Put several Tablespoons of granulated sugar in a bowl. Add 2-3 drops of food coloring and stir. The sugar will form little clusters where the food coloring was dropped so you'll have to smash those up with a spoon or fork and stir the sugar until it's all colored and there are no more clusters.

Chocolate Mousse

1 1/3cups chocolate chips. Melt in glass container in microwave stirring every 30-35 seconds.
Add:
1/4cup water
2Tablespoons butter
Set aside and cool for 10 minutes.

In saucepan whisk:
3 egg yolks
2Tablespoons sugar
1/4cup water
Cook and stir 1-2 minutes
Remove from heat and whisk in chocolate mix, set saucepan in ice water for 5-10 minutes and stir. Don't let sit too long or the mixture will harden too much.
Fold in 1 1/4 cup Cool Whip.
Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight. Top with Cool Whip.

Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Fresh Strawberries, cleaned and dried.

Vanilla and semi-sweet chocolate chips. The amount will vary depending on how many strawberries you are doing but I usually start with about 1 cup and do more if I need it. Melt these seperatley in glass bowls in the microwave. Stir every 30-35 seconds so the chocolate doesn't burn.

Dip the strawberries in the melted chocolate. I used a spoon to help cover them and be sure to hold the green leaves out of the way of the chocolate. You can also swirl the different kinds of chocolate over the other.

Mmm!

Place on waxed paper and refrigerate until the chocolate is set.