Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

I've been making this bread for years now and it turns out perfect every time. If you have bananas sitting on your counter that are about to make their way to the trash can - STOP! Grab these other ingredients (that you will likely have on hand) and make this. Then eat it for breakfast, a snack, slice it and take it to your small group on Sunday morning or keep a loaf for yourself and give the other to a neighbor. But whatever you do, don't throw away those bananas! :)

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

3 1/2 Cups Flour
3 tsp. Baking Powder
1 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Baking Soda
2 Cups Mashed Ripe Bananas (around 4 bananas)
2 TBSP Lemon Juice
3/4 Cup Oil
1 1/2 Cup Sugar
3 Eggs
3/4 Cup Milk
6 oz. Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips (I use mini chips)

Combine flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda in a bowl. Set aside.

With mixer, blend bananas and lemon juice until pureed. Then mix in the sugar, oil, eggs and beat until light and fluffy. Add milk until just mixed in. Add dry ingredients in a few batches, blending well each time before adding more. Stir in chocolate chips.

Grease 2 loaf pans and bake at 350 for 50 min-1 hour or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pans for 10 minutes and then remove from pan. If not eating these immediately, cool completely before storing. I usually wrap well in plastic wrap and then cover in foil.

Simple Cinnamon Rolls

This recipe came from the Taste of Home website and I've made them several times - they are so good and really easy. They are very simple and I love how you can make a little or a lot very easily. If you only need a small amount (like for your kids breakfast before school) just use one can of crescent rolls, and if you need a lot (like I did for our SS class today) then you can use 3 or 4 cans. Give them a try - and try to eat only one! :)

Simple Cinnamon Rolls

1 Tube Crescent Rolls
1/4 Cup Sugar
1 tsp. Cinnamon

Icing Glaze

1/4 Cup Powdered Sugar
1/4 Cup Regular Sugar
1 Tbsp. Milk

Combine sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl and set aside. Unroll tube of crescent rolls and press seams together. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar mixture all over crescent rolls.

Roll up, jelly roll style, starting at the long end.

Once rolled all the way up, cut into 8 equal pieces and place cut side down into a greased round cake pan. (If making a large amount, use a greased 9x13).