Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread


I hate banana bread!   But my mom made this and I loved it!  Then she told me it was banana bread!  I was a little bit mad, but it was so cinnamony sugary I couldn't taste the bananas and I will eat more even if it does have bananas in it, because it was SO GOOD!!!!!
 
For the bread:

• 3 over-ripe bananas, smashed up
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp baking soda
• dash of salt
• 1 1/2 cups flour

For the swirl:

• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 Tbs cinnamon

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Butter and flour a loaf pan.
3. Mix bananas, butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla together. 
4. In a separate bowl combine flour, baking soda and salt.
5. Gently stir in flour to wet mixture. Be careful not to over-mix!

FOR THE SWIRL:

1. In a small dish, mix together the sugar and cinnamon.
2. Add 1/2 of the batter to the loaf pan and then sprinkle half, or a little more than half of the cinnamon-sugar mixture all over the batter in the pan. Add the rest of the batter, and then sprinkle the leftover cinnamon-sugar on top.
3. Bake for 50-60 minutes FOR A LARGE LOAF or 30 minutes for a small loaf.

Yummy Chocolate Cake

This is my favorite cake!!!!!

Ingredients

2 cups sugar

1-3/4 cups all purpose flour

3/4 cup Hershey's Cocoa

1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

2 eggs

1 cup milk

1/2 cup olive oil

2 t real vanilla extract

1 cup boiling water

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 350 F. Grease and flour two 9 inch round baking pans.

2. Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of mixer 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour batter into prepared pans.

3. Bake 30-35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely. Frost with "Perfectly Chocolate" Frosting.

Serves 10-12

"Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Frosting

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter

2/3 cup Hershey's Cocoa

3 cups powdered sugar

1/3 cup milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Melt butter. Stir in cocoa. Alternately add powdered sugar and milk, beating to spreading consistency. Add small amount additional milk if needed. Stir in vanilla.

Makes about 2 cups frosting.