Bake Sale for Limes

Friday we had a bake sale for the Limes After School Program and it went really well!! We raised a TON of money!!  The money will be used to supplies, snack, and possibly rent for a building.

For the sale I made iced sugar cookies, blueberry muffins, and banana pumpkin bread.

I found the recipe here.

I changed a few things, I didn't use oats or ginger just because I didn't have them.

I was so excited I was able to use almost all ingredients from Grenada... fresh pumpkin, fresh bananas, fresh eggs, sugar produced here, flour I think was made here (or at least in the caribbean somewhere) cinnamon, and nutmeg that I actually found while hiking up to Mt. Carmel waterfalls!  I found nutmeg laying on the ground and grated it for my bread... amazing.
It turned out delicious and I'm so glad I made two batches so Lee and I would have some to eat!

I put the pumpkin, banana, and egg in the blender 

I make a mess cooking. 

mmmmmmm
Thank you everyone for helping out!!

Banana Bread!

This recipe for banana  bread tastes just like Bob Evans!!
& this website is so cool - you can adjust the servings and it automatically changes the measurements for you! and it does US or Metric measurements
http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/banana-banana-bread/Detail.aspx

I have to admit that I didn't use real bananas in this bread, I used 'rock figs' which look just like bananas only a little smaller and taste almost exactly like a banana. I think.... I'm starting to forget what a banana tastes like at home.  I don't think they are as good as they are here though.

 Here is a comparison picture of bananas and figs.  They are common in the West Indies.
I found this picture on this website -http://homepage.mac.com/karlek/.Public/SVG/SVG620.HTM it explains a lot of Caribbean foods!

ps.  my silicone bread pan was the greatest idea of all time... nothing ever sticks and it smashed up nicely in my suitcase for the trip down :)

Cinnamon Rolls

On Sunday afternoon I was just sitting at home alone and got in the mood to bake something.
We don't buy many "snacks" here in Grenada.  Mostly because it is too expensive, so I am excited to try baking more.
I decided to bake cinnamon rolls because that is one of Lee and I's favorite things.  When we first got married and were living in West Virginia we would go to Kroger grocery shopping together (the good old days) and we would always end up buying a can of cinnamon rolls and making them when we got home and eating the entire pack in one sitting! haha, unhealthy, but so fun and delicious.

I found a recipe online that didn't require too much work or sitting around waiting for the dough to raise.

filling

• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon butter, melted

dough

• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 cups buttermilk ( I substituted - 1 cup milk & 1tsp white vinegar)
• 6 tablespoonsbutter, melted

I mixed all the ingredients together for the dough and mixed the filling ingredients together until it looked like  sand.

I rolled out the dough into a rectangle, brushed on melted butter, and spread the filling on top

I then cut it into strips and rolled it up into 'rolls'.  This was really difficult for me ( my first time home making cinnamon rolls) maybe my dough was too 'wet' because they kept falling apart and coming open, so they didn't turn out that beautiful.... hence why some turned into more of a crescent roll.
and then by reading more recipes I found that it probably would have been easier to roll the entire piece of dough up into a 'log' and then cut it.  I'll know next time. and pur the rest of the melted butter on top! (LOTS of butter in this one, lol)

 Make sure you spray or butter the pan really, really well!! I found that a lot of the filling melted and ran out the bottom and caused them to stick.  Or perhaps I should have baked them less. ?
I baked them for 20 minutes on 425degrees.

I made a very small amount of icing to pour on top, because they already had so much sugar in them!!



Icing

•  2 tbs of cream cheese
• 1 tbs milk
• enough powdered sugar to make it thick

So I definitely learned a lot for what to do next time, and they turned out delicious regardless!