apple slice banana bread

I currently have Tuesday mornings off of school and work, so this morning I made banana bread with my mushy, brown bananas. I always buy bananas thinking that I'll eat them and I almost never do. Hence, I make a lot of banana bread.

Shout out to my friend, Elite, for getting me that red mixing bowl for my birthday last month. It is the perfect size for sloshing around banana bread, especially during the mixing of the wet and dry ingredients.

I used the "brown sugar banana nut bread 1" from allrecipes.com as a guide, although I don't like nutty bread that much, so I didn't add the nuts. Then, after I poured the banana bread recipe into the bread pan, I looked at it and thought, let's try adding more fruit. So I sliced up a small apple and put the pieces just on the top.

Here's the recipe:

1/2 cup butter, softened

1 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1 tablespoon vanilla

4 very ripe bananas, mashed

2 cups flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

1 apple, sliced (optional)

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition. Stir in vanilla and banana. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, and salt.
3. Blend the banana mixture into the flour mixture; stir just to combine. Fold in walnuts. Pour batter into prepared pan.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour, until a toothpick inserted into center of loaf comes out clean.

paw print chocolate chip cookies

I don't have a lot to say in this post, I mostly just wanted to share a picture. I used the regular chocolate chip cookie recipe from the back of the chocolate chip bag, then instead of dropping spoonfuls of dough onto a baking sheet, I dropped them into paw-print muffin tins. My aunt Pam gave them to me. She gives a lot of presents made by ASPCA, in which profits go towards saving animals' lives. So here's what they look like!