Stuffed N Baked French Toast

I got this recipe from the Silly-Yak Bakery in Madison, Wisconsin, but, of course, I had to adapt it to feed my crew....

14-16 slices GF bread (I used Silly-Yak's cinnamon swirl bread)
3+ banana's sliced, 1/4" thick
2 cups milk
8 oz cream cheese, softened
6 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1 tbsp vanilla

Heat oven to 350. Place half the bread in a single layer in a buttered casserole dish (I used 9x13). Top with banana slices and the other half of the bread.

Beat cream cheese, eggs, sugar until smooth, add vanilla and milk slowly. Pour over bread. Let sit 5 minutes, or refrigerate overnite. Bake 45-55 minutes (longer if refrigerated) until set and top is toasted.

Let stand 10 minutes, cut into squares and serve with powdered sugar or maple syrup.

That and some fresh berries......yummmmy breakfast treat!!!

Peaches and Cream Pie

At my Bible study a couple weeks ago one of the ladies made this and it smelled soooo good I had to find a recipe I could butcher. I searched several on Allrecipes and found this one. All I substituted was the flour. I used Authentic Foods flour mix the first time and then Pamela's Baking mix today at the grandparents. It smells yummy, can't wait to eat!!!


1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp Pamela's Baking Mix or other GF flour mix
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 (3 ounce) package non-instant vanilla pudding mix
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1 (29 ounce) can sliced peaches (cut into bite sized pcs), drained and syrup reserved
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup white sugar

1 tablespoon white sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon


Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease sides and bottom of a 10 inch deep-dish pie pan or square baking dish.

In a medium mixing bowl, mix together flour, salt, baking powder and pudding mix. Mix in butter, egg and milk. Beat for 2 minutes. Pour mixture into pie pan. Arrange the peach slices on top of the pudding mixture.

In a small mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy. Add 1/2 cup sugar and 3 tablespoons reserved peach syrup. Beat for 2 minutes. Spoon mixture over peaches to within 1 inch of pan edge. Mix together 1 tablespoon sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and sprinkle over top.

Bake in preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes, until golden brown. Chill before serving.

***UPDATE*** for some reason the next time I made it the batter was too runny and I had to add some more Pamela's. I'm guessing it had something to do with the humidity (??). Anyway, I've made this several times and used various amounts of "flour", ranging from 2/3 cup to 1 cup. Just add a little at a time, by the tbsp until the batter feels thick enough and isn't runny.

Cinnamon bread pudding with apples

Cleaned out the freezer yesterday and found a loaf of cinnamon bread from the Silly Yak bakery in Madison. Left it out to thaw over night and dry out a bit so I could do something with it. Came home from church and searched for some recipes that I could mangle and came up with this......


loaf of GF cinnamon bread, cubed
3 apples peeled and chopped
6 eggs, beaten
3 cups milk
1 cup white sugar
couple dashes ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla extract


DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Mix bread cubes and apples together in 9x13 pan, sprinkle with cinnamon.

In a medium mixing bowl, combine eggs, milk, sugar, and vanilla. Beat until well mixed. Pour over bread, and lightly push down with a fork until bread is covered and soaking up the egg mixture.

Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes, or until the top springs back when lightly tapped.

**It's in the oven now, I will let you know if it flops.....but it is looking very promising!!!!**

Apple Spice cake

SO I've got a bunch of boys (Grant, Sam, Franny, etc.....) upstairs, not sleeping.....and I know they will wake up starving and I am not getting up early to cook for them.....so I am trying something.......

1 pkg Namaste spice cake mix
2 large granny smith apples, peeled and diced
1 single serving of applesauce, no sugar added (Motts Natural)
enough oil to make 2/3 cup when added to applesauce
3/4 cup water
3 eggs

So I mixed all that together and put it in a greased 9x13 pan. I sprinkled a bit of sugar on top, so it is nice and crunchy. I placed that in my oven, which I set for 30minutes at 325, and then I programmed the oven to shut off after. And now I am going to bed, and praying that we wake up to some yummy apple spice cake for breakfast with strawberries....if it flops, I'll let you know....wish me luck!!!

it's now morning and here's what I found......ok, the weirdest thing happened!!! all the chopped up apples ended up in the center of the pan, which didn't bake. The outside (perimeter) of the cake was good but didn't have any apple chunks and the inside I had to scoop out with a spoon and throw away. So, not sure if I used too much applesauce, should have chopped the apples smaller (never had that happen with the carrot and/or zucchini shreds, when I've used this mix), so I will try this again with a couple changes and see what happens next time........

BTW....the boys ate ALL the cake. LOVED it....weirdo's.....it was good, just weird!!!

Monkey Bread

So today is Grant's birthday, and I made Monkey Bread for them, out of canned biscuits, which I can not eat. SO, I thought I'd experiment to see what yummy breakfast treat I could come up with for me!

I had some of Grandma Ferndon's frozen donut holes, they were dry and not so yummy when I had them last, so i decided they were perfect to play with.

I drizzled butter over them first, then I sprinkled a mizture of white sugar, brown sugar and cinnamon on top. I threw it in the microwave for about 2 minutes, drizzled some of my cream cheese glaze (same as cream cheese frosting, only thinner) and oh, boy, YUM!!! and easy too!!!

So that is how to make dry donut holes better than palatable. Not exactly health food, but hey! it's a birthday!

cheese hashbrowns

So the whole guest thing, and we only have a few eggs this morning.....so we were at Outback the other night and David ordered cheese fries....they looked soooooo good. I ate one. Had a bit of GI issues later, but 'tis life.....so anywhoooooo, been craving them since that night.

So this morning I browned hashbrowns in the pan, with a little bacon crumbled up. Sprinkled that with pepper and Lawry's season salt and when it was all nice and browned I sprinkled some shredded cheddar on top.

The kiddo's gobbled it up. I wish I'd made some sauce to pour over it too, but it was yumymy anyway.....

a quick easy snack, breakfast, etc....

Doctored Muffins

So we have some company this morning, what better time to experiment with food than when we have guests????

So anywhoooo, I took a Namaste Muffin mix, added
2 eggs,
1/2 cup cinnamon applesauce,
1/2 cup water,
1/4 cup flaxseed,
then about 3/4 cup shredded carrot and one chopped apple,
some more cinnamon, I'd guess at least another teaspoon.

Threw all that in muffin liners and baked it in the convection oven at 375 for about 10 minutes.

Turned out pretty darn good. Next time I will sprinkle brown sugar on top before baking though. I love those crunchy tops!!!

p.S. I got 21 muffins from that mix...

Egg potato casserole

ok, so this incredibly easy breakfast that I forgot to put together the night before had to made in a skillet....and heavens sake, E A S Y......will do it this way from now on. The boys ate it ALL. no leftovers....they asked that I make it everyday......um, NO

1 pkg refrigerated shredded potatoes
1 pkg Tennesse Pride Mild sausage
9 eggs
a handful of so of cheese
a dash of milk and salt and pepper

so, throw the sausage in a skillet, when it is almost done add the potatoes and cover with lid, stir occasionally. Contimue cooking until everything is browned nicely.

In bowl, crack eggs, add a dash of milk and season if desired. Pour over potato/sausage mixture in skillet. Cover, let cook a few minutes until eggs start to set. Stir it a little to keep bottom from becoming too brown.

When eggs are cooked through, add shredded cheese and serve with salsa (or ketchup...blech)