Banana Fritters

Great recipe for delicious deep fried banana fritters, served with with confectioners sugar and cinnamon, or with with vanilla ice cream and a rich and buttery Cinnamon Sauce. There goes the diet but, oh, so yummy!

Ingredients
2 medium bananas, peeled and coarsely chopped
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup milk (about)
3 cups vegetable oil
Confectioners sugar
Ground cinnamon

Directions
Combine the bananas, flour, egg, salt, and baking powder in a mixing bowl. Add enough milk to make a batter the consistency of a thick pancake batter. Heat the oil in a deep, heavy pot or deep fryer to 360º F. Drop the batter by spoonfuls into the hot oil and fry until the fritters pop up in the oil and are golden brown.

Drain on paper towels and sprinkle with confectioners sugar and cinnamon. Or serve with with vanilla ice cream and Cinnamon Sauce. Yummy!

Yield: Makes about 20.

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Cinnamon Sauce

Yummy, versatile buttery Cinnamon Sauce that can be refrigerated, to use with your favorite dessert, like deepfried Banana Fritters!

Ingredients
2 cups water
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
3 egg yolks, lightly beaten
2/3 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 cup butter (2 sticks)

Directions
Heat water and cinnamon in a medium saucepan.
In a separate bowl, mix the egg yolks with sugar and cornstarch. Add about one-third of the hot mixture to the egg yolk mixture slowly, then pour back into the saucepan, stirring to blend. Return sauce to a boil. Remove from heat and cool the sauce for 2 minutes. Slowly whisk or beat in the butter.

Store cinnamon sauce in refrigerator.

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Old-fashioned Gingerbread

Everyone loves gingerbread, I know I do! This is a great traditional and easy gingerbread recipe that will add to any party.

Ingredients

2 sticks butter, at room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup molasses
2 1/2 cups bleached all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 cup hot water

Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Beat the butter at medium speed with an electric mixer. Gradually add the sugar, beating well. Add the egg and molasses, mixing well. In another bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and ginger. Add to the creamed mixture, alternately with the water, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Mix well after each addition. Pour the batter into a lightly greased and floured 13-x9-x-2-inch baking pan. Bake until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Remove and let cool before slicing to serve. Or, let cool completely, wrap first in plastic wrap, then in foil and put into a freezer storage bag before putting it in the freezer. When ready to serve, remove from the freezer, unwrap and let come to room temperature. Then wrap in foil and bake at 250 degrees until warm through. Slice to serve. Makes about 15 servings.

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Sweet Potato Pone

This is an easy recipe for Sweet Potato Pone (aka Potato Pound)! This dish is one of the original “soul foods” that arrived via the slave ships that came to America.

Some suggest serving Sweet Potato Pone as a side dish with meats, but to others it is a dessert or pudding. You decide – either way, it is yummy!

Ingredients
1 egg
1 cup sugar
1 stick (8 tablespoons) butter or margarine, softened
2 cups grated raw sweet potatoes
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup milk

Directions
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Beat the egg with the sugar and butter in a mixing bowl until creamy and smooth. In another bowl, combine the sweet potatoes, salt and milk and mix well. Add the butter mixture to the potato mixture and mix well. Pour the mixture into lightly buttered baking dish and bake for 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from the oven and sprinkle the top with the pecans. Return to the oven and bake for 30 minutes, or until the mixture sets slightly. Serves 6 to 8.

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Cajun Cookie Cake

At a Cajun bakery, you will most likely find this kind of very tasty Cajun cookie cake. While not much different from your every day cookie cake you can buy at your local Jewel Osco, this has much more of a homemade taste to it, as well as that splash of Cajun taste to it.

Ingredients

4 Eggs

1 Box of Yellow Cake Mix

8 Ounces of Cream Cheese

3/4 Stick of Butter

1 Box of Confection Sugar

Directions

Melt your butter in a bowl. Once melted, mix in your cake mix, as well as one of your eggs, until the mixture forms into dough. Now add your last 3 eggs, cream cheese, and sugar. Stir it together well, or just stir it in an electric mixer. Then, bake it at 350 degrees for 45 minutes, and you are in for a treat.

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