Turkey Take Two

Remember my turkey club sandwich for lunch?  Well tonight’s dinner included homemade Turkey Soup.  I opened our bedroom door this morning and could smell this soup cooking up on the stove – my Mom makes soup stock from scratch so this soup is amazing; puts canned stuff to shame.

With the amazing turkey soup we had three cheese bread and some carrots

This afternoon I did some baking for Tina’s Eggland’s Best Eggs Holiday Recipe Contest.  I like to give baked goods for holiday gifts; this bread would be perfect for breakfast or for dessert as we had it tonight.  I present to you…

Choco-Puddin Banana Bread

Ingredients:

• 1 cup sugar
• 3-4 mashed bananas (approximately 1 1/2 cups)
• 1/4 cup Canola Oil
• 1/4 cup unsweetened apple sauce
• 2 Eggland’s Best Eggs plus 2 Eggland’s Best Egg Whites
• 1 1/2 cup Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
• 1 1/2 cup White flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 cup prepared instant chocolate pudding (made with 1 cup of milk instead of 2)
• Optional:  add a few chocolate chips!

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Combine first 5 ingredients in large bowl – stir together with a whisk.
3. Combine remaining ingredients (minus pudding) together in a separate bowl.
4. Slowly add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and stir just until combined.
5. In a separate bowl mix pudding with a small amount of bread batter.
6. In a large bread pan (sprayed with cooking spray), layer bread batter and pudding/bread batter mix until both are gone.  Take a knife and swirl the batter together multiple times.
7. Bake for about 1 hour and 15 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean. 

(I have a feeling this could be made into two smaller bread pans)

For dessert I had a piece – I had to sample!

This bread is so moist and delicious!  I bet it would taste great with some soynut butter for breakfast…

Do you like to give away homemade holiday gifts?