
Homestyle Chicken Noodle Soup
This classic homemade Chicken Noodle Soup recipe is made from scratch with chicken, vegetables, broth and noodles, and is ready in under an hour.
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Homestyle Chicken Noodle Soup
This classic homemade Chicken Noodle Soup recipe is made from scratch with chicken, vegetables, broth and noodles, and is ready in under an hour.
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This classic homemade Chicken Noodle Soup recipe is made from scratch with chicken, vegetables, broth and noodles, and is ready in under an hour.
Easy Pumpkin Bread
This easy recipe (seriously – it only takes 10 minutes to prep!) becomes a go-to as soon as fall rolls around. Made with canned pumpkin, this quick bread is moist, with the perfect amount of sweetness.
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This easy recipe (seriously - it only takes 10 minutes to prep!) becomes a go-to as soon as fall rolls around. Made with canned pumpkin, this quick bread is moist, with the perfect amount of sweetness.
READ: Easy Pumpkin Bread
Grandma’s Biscotti Recipe
My grandma’s recipe for biscotti – classic twice-baked Italian cookies that are first shaped like a slab or flat log and baked, then sliced diagonally and baked again – is the best!
READ: Grandma’s Biscotti Recipe
My grandma's recipe for biscotti - classic twice-baked Italian cookies that are first shaped like a slab or flat log and baked, then sliced diagonally and baked again - is the best!
Ultimate Oreo Cake
The ultimate Oreo cake! Triple layer chocolate cake, cookies and cream filling, chocolate fudge frosting, and white chocolate glaze. Then garnished with more chocolate frosting Oreo cookies.
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The ultimate Oreo cake! Triple layer chocolate cake, cookies and cream filling, chocolate fudge frosting, and white chocolate glaze. Then garnished with more chocolate frosting Oreo cookies.
READ: Ultimate Oreo Cake
Hush Puppies with Spicy Dipping Sauce
These hush puppies are a Southern classic and this recipe is absolutely the best; a simple batter that comes together quickly and only takes minutes to fry up. A perfect side dish or appetizer for your next seafood…
These hush puppies are a Southern classic and this recipe is absolutely the best; a simple batter that comes together quickly and only takes minutes to fry up. A perfect side dish or appetizer for your next seafood (or, heck, any!) meal!
Apple Muffins with Cinnamon-Sugar Topping
These apple-cinnamon muffins pack huge apple flavor thanks to apple cider and chopped apples, with a fabulous cinnamon-sugar crunch on top.
READ: Apple Muffins with Cinnamon-Sugar Topping
These apple-cinnamon muffins pack huge apple flavor thanks to apple cider and chopped apples, with a fabulous cinnamon-sugar crunch on top.
Easy Homemade Granola Recipe
This easy homemade granola is sweetened with maple syrup (or honey), mixed with almonds and dried fruit, bakes up super chunky, and is the absolute best!
READ: Easy Homemade Granola Recipe
This easy homemade granola is sweetened with maple syrup (or honey), mixed with almonds and dried fruit, bakes up super chunky, and is the absolute best!
Our Favorite Zucchini Bread Recipe
This easy zucchini bread recipe made with brown sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla for a delicious flavor is the absolute best! A summer staple!
READ: Our Favorite Zucchini Bread Recipe
This easy zucchini bread recipe made with brown sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla for a delicious flavor is the absolute best! A summer staple!
Hummingbird cake is an easy, sweet taste of the tropics with banana, pineapple, and the best cream cheese frosting! Make this recipe for dessert today!
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Hummingbird cake is an easy, sweet taste of the tropics with banana, pineapple, toasted pecans, and the best cream cheese frosting! Make this recipe for dessert today!
I love making (and eating!) big, beautiful layer cakes – there’s something so stunning about looking at a tall, smoothly-iced cake and then cutting into it and seeing layer after layer.
I made hummingbird cupcakes many years ago, and I thought the flavor would be perfect for translating into a wonderfully epic layer cake. This is essentially a banana cake, with crushed pineapple, reduced pineapple juice, chopped pecans, and warm spices that taste like the Caribbean.
In addition to one heck of an amazing cake, this is filled and frosted with the best cream cheese frosting I’ve ever made and that comes together quickly and easily. I was totally skeptical of the mixing process for the frosting – everything is mixed on low or medium-low speed, which is vastly different from every other buttercream mixture I’ve made – they are usually whipped at a much higher speed. Even though I was skeptical, I went with it, and the results were phenomenal. Cream cheese frosting can be so difficult to get right, and this one is absolutely luscious – silky smooth and easily spreadable.
You’ve found a delicious dessert you’ll want to come back to again and again!
No birds will be harmed in the making of this cake!
Despite the name, there are no birds included in the recipe. Instead, the name is thought to come from the fact that the cake is sweet enough to attract hummingbirds seeking nectar.
This dessert recipe comes from the Carribean country of Jamaica, originating in the 1960’s. It’s a banana cake similar to my traditional version, but with the addition of sweet pineapple and pecans. The recipe was sent to the United States by the Jamaican Tourist Board, as a way to entice Americans to visit their country.
Originally, the name was “doctor bird cake”. This is because the Jamaicans call hummingbirds doctor birds (because of their probing beaks). There are plenty of other names for this dessert, though. Popular names include: “the cake that doesn’t last”, “bumblebee cake”, “Jamaica cake”, and “bird of paradise cake”.
No matter what you call it, this cake is delicious!
One of the amazing things about this cake is that it has more fruit than flour. We are talking about 4 cups of fruit versus 3 cups of flour. This makes the cake super moist, full of flavor, and dense yet fluffy.
Aside from the usual suspects like flour, sugar, eggs, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and vanilla, let’s chat about these special additions:
For the cream cheese frosting, we use contrasting temperatures for our butter and cream cheese, so be sure to remember:
I hope you’ll enjoy this hummingbird cake anytime you get a craving for a little taste of the tropics! If you make it, I’d love if you would take a moment to stop back and share a review below. ENJOY! 😍
(Recipe from The Best of America’s Test Kitchen 2015)
Originally published in 2015, this has been updated to include new photos, a helpful video tutorial, and more in-depth recipe tips.
[photos by Dee of One Sarcastic Baker]
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My grandma’s recipe for banana nut bread is a classic banana bread recipe packed full of mashed bananas and chopped walnuts; it can be prepped in 10 minutes and bakes up super moist and dense. A family favorite!
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My grandma’s recipe for banana nut bread is a classic banana bread recipe packed full of mashed bananas and chopped walnuts; it can be prepped in 10 minutes and bakes up super moist and dense. A family favorite!
Growing up, there was never a lack of things to eat at my grandma’s house. There were tins filled with pizzelle and biscotti that were never empty. I mean, never. They were always sitting, filled to the brim, on the last step near the dining room.
My favorite days were the ones when I would walk in and see my grandma in the kitchen, surrounded by loaves upon loaves of pepperoni bread. My second favorite day was banana bread day. Smelling the air infused with bananas and warm bread was intoxicating. These also got churned out many at a time. And nothing could beat a thick slice slathered with soft butter. Divine.
I’m thrilled to be sharing her recipe with you; this bread is super moist, packed full of banana flavor, and best of all – it comes straight from my grandma’s kitchen. Which makes it the best banana bread ever, naturally.
There might not be anything worse than dry banana bread, am I right? The lineup of ingredients for making my grandma’s banana nut bread is pretty standard, but there are two key ingredients in this recipe that ensure it stays supremely moist:
A few extra notes to ensure you are sitting down to the absolute best banana bread that you’ve ever had…
As you might be able to tell, this banana bread recipe doesn’t make a super-high loaf, but it’s one of the things I love most about it. It’s condensed, moist and packed full of flavor. It makes a perfect breakfast bread, and is also an amazing dessert to have with coffee.
I feel so fortunate that I was able to spend so much time with my grandma as I grew up, and that I have so many incredible memories tied to her house and to the food that she made.
Each time I make one of her recipes and have a simple smell bring me back to her kitchen, I know she is thrilled that I’ve carried on making so many of the recipes that our family has loved over the years, including this banana bread.
If you make this recipe and love it, I would so appreciate it if you would take a moment to leave a rating below. Thank you so much!
My grandma’s recipe for banana nut bread – a classic banana bread recipe packed full of mashed bananas and chopped walnuts. A family favorite!
Nutritional values are based on one serving
Originally published in 2010, this has been updated to include new photos, a helpful video tutorial, and more in-depth recipe tips.
[photos by Ari of Well Seasoned]
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