Banana BREAD by Mrs C., typically American

Banane

Ingredients :

200 g flour

150g sugar

3 ripe bananas

50g butter

5g baking powder

1 pinch of salt

1 egg

10 cl milk

Mix flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.

Mix sugar, egg,  melted butter  and milk into another bowl.

Mix well and pour into the first bowl.

Peel and mash the bananas.

Stir slowly with a wooden spoon.

Bake in the oven for 45 mn at 180°C.

ENJOY FOR BREAKFAST or ANYTIME ….

Banana bread with chocolate chips by Charlotte M

Serves 6 (or less because It’s really delicious)

  – Ingredients:

 

3 ripe bananas                               120g butter (+ some for the dish)

100g chocolate chips                   120g brown sugar

3 eggs                                               200g flour

½ baking powder

 

            – How to:

 

  1. Preheat your oven at 180°C. Peel and cut the bananas, then mash them with a fork.
  2. Break the eggs into a bowl and beat them with the brown sugar until it smooth and creamy. Mix the flour with the baking powder, the melted butter and the mashed bananas. Mix well and stir the chocolate chips in.
  3. Put the dough in a buttered dish and bake it for 45 minutes.

 

I love this recipe because you can add some Nutella or eat it as it is! It takes about 20 minutes to do so it is pretty quick.

Pancakes by Mrs C., breakfast in America

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Ingredients :                                                       

250g flour

1 tablespoon sugar

1teaspoon baking soda

3 eggs

30 g butter

1/2 l Ribot milk (you can find it in any supermarket.
If you do not have any, use 1/2 l milk with 2 teaspoons of white vinegar, and wait for 10 minutes before using it.

1/2 teaspoon salt

Mix flour, sugar, salt and baking powder in a bowl.

Beat the eggs and add to the mixture.

Stir in the melted butter, and the milk.

Leave for 45 minutes.

Heat a lightly oiled frying pan and pour a little batter onto it. Brown on both sides.

Serve hot with mapple syrup, jam,  whipped cream or sugar. Yummy yummy !

Watch Jamie Oliver’s banana pancake recipe here

Carrot cake by Kathleen, an American snack

Ingredients :

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1 cup oil

2 cups sugar

4 eggs

2 cups finely grated carrots

1 cup drained crushed pineapple

1 cup nuts

Sift together baking powder, flour, soda, salt and cinnamon. Add sugar, oil and beaten eggs.

Mix well.

Add carrots, pineapple, nuts and mix well.

Bake in 2 greased and floured 9 inch pans at 350 degrees ( = 175 °C) for  30 to 35 mn.

Icing : (personally, I don’t add any icing)

8 ounces cream cheese

1/2 cup butter

1 pound or less powdered sugar

2 teaspoons liquid vanilla

 

COOKIES by Lorine and Lili-Rose, American snacks

 

125g butter,

3tbspn sugar,

3tbspn brown sugar,

1 egg,

1 packet vanilla sugar,

150g flour,

125g chocolate chip,

1 packet baking powder,

1 pinch salt

 

1-In a bowl, mix sugar, brown sugar and melted butter. Add vanilla sugar and a whipped egg.

2- Add flour, baking powder and salt. Mix with a wood spoon and add chocolate chips.

3- Heap small quantities  of mixture.  Bake at 200°C for 10 minutes.

ENJOY!!!!

 

 

Scones for British High Tea

scones

250g flour

1 packet of baking powder

50g butter or margarine

1 handful raisins

2 teaspoonfuls sugar

10 cl milk

Heat the oven at 200°C.

Mix flour, baking powder,  butter, raisins with sugar.

Pour the milk little by little and pat the dough.

Roll the dough into a 3 cm- thick cylinder.

Cut into 2 cm-thick slices.

Bake in the oven for 10 mn.

Serve with butter, jam or marmelade or clotted cream.

Pumpkin Pie, a Thanksgiving dessert by Allegra

about 400/425 gr pumpkin pulp (cut into cubes, then steam for 35 mn)

2 eggs

3/4 cup white sugar (~150 gr)

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2- 1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg powder

1 can evaporated milk (lait concentré non sucré nestlé)

short crust pastry (=pâte brisée)

 

Mix the ingredients with a blender.

Bake for 15 mn in a very hot oven (215 °C)

Then bake for 35/40 mn in a hot oven (180°C)

Leave to cool, then leave in the refrigerator until cold.

You can add some custard, or whipped cream.

 

Chocolate Roll by Jeoffrey C.


–        180g black chocolate                                             petits beurres                  marshmallows
          

–        100g   butter.                                           

–        100g  icing sugar

–        1 egg

–        8  marshmallows                        

–        150g  biscuits ( petits beurres)

–        some  foil. 

Melt the chocolate with the butter and mix well.

 Add the egg into the mixture and then, stir in the icing sugar. 

Crumble the biscuits and chop the chamallows into little cubes . Mix in and pour the preparation on the foil in a 30 cm line (like a sausage). 

Roll the foil around it and give it a sausage shape. Leave to cool in the refrigerator for 6h.

Clementine ‘s mug CAKE

 

 serves one

ingredients : 

-1 egg yolk

-10g sugar

-15g melted butter

-10g maizena

-10g flour

-chocolate chips

method:

Mix the egg yolk,the melted butter,the flour, the sugar and the maizena in a mug. Add the chocolate chips. Bake in the microwave for one minute and leave to cool.

preparation time : 5 minutes

cooking/cooling times : 1 minute

                                    Enjoy !!!!!!!

Caramel and marshmallow CAKE by Sixtine R.

marshmallows

You’ll need :

30 carambars (caramel)

30 marshmallows

125 g butter

half a box of rice crispies

On a low fire, melt the carambars with the butter. Add the marshmallows. When the mixture is the colour of caramel, add the rice crispies.

DO NOT bake in the oven, but leave to cool in the fridge for one hour.

Enjoy !

Buckwheat GALETTE by Lola J

Ingredients

500 g *buckwheat flour = farine de sarrasin

2 Tsp (*tablespoons) *wheat flour

2 eggs

1 tsp (*teaspoon) salt

1 litre cold water

25 cl *beer

3 Tsp (tablespoons) of *oil or *melted *butter

butter (for cooking)

HOW TO …

1 Mix flour and salt, mix in the eggs one by one  to avoid lumps.

2 *Whisk in the water little by little, then *stir in the beer.

3 *Leave to rest for 4 hours at least.

4 Add the oil (or the melted butter) just before cooking

5 Pour the batter into a frying-pan in a thin layer, for a galette

6 Add any ingredient you like (ham, egg, cheese, mushrooms..) Enjoy !