Frozen Peanut Butter and Chocolate Banana Bites

A delicious treat that you can enjoy and not worry about breaking your diet!

Frozen Peanut Butter and Chocolate Banana Bites

Ingredients:
2 bananas sliced
6 oz dark chocolate morsels
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup vanilla greek yogurt

Directions:
1. Combine peanut butter and yogurt.
2. Put mixture into piping bag (or a ziploc bag) and top each banana slice with mixture.
3. Melt dark chocolate and cover each banana slice.
4. Freeze for atleast 1 hour and enjoy!

Banana Cranberry Bread

Every year we have a bunch of cranberry sauce leftover after Thanksgiving. This year, instead of letting it go bad in my fridge, I decided to add it to one of my favorite banana bread recipes. It's delicious and helps me get some of the leftovers out of my fridge! The recipe is just enough for two loaves of bread or I made 1 loaf of bread and a dozen muffins.

Banana Cranberry Bread

Ingredients:
3 or 4 ripe bananas
2 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup of shortening
1/2 cup of butter (or you can do a whole cup of shortening but I use butter for flavor)
3 eggs
1 cup cranberry sauce (I used one with whole berries)
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg

Directions:
1. Combine bananas, butter, shortening, eggs, sugar, cranberry sauce, milk, and vanilla until creamed.
2. Add in flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Blend until batter forms.
3. Bake at 375 degrees. Loaves of bread take about 60 minutes (or until tooth pick comes out clean) and muffins take about 25 minutes.  Enjoy!

Peanut Butter Banana Muffins

Every week I buy a monster tub of vanilla greek yogurt and last week accidentally bought a big tub of plain yogurt.. which doesn't taste nearly as good. So all week I've been looking at recipes that use greek yogurt and I had to try this one!

It's completely normal for the pregnant girl to already be thinking about her next meal and since it's 11:00pm, that means the next is breakfast! So I'm making these peanut butter banana muffins!

Peanut Butter Banana Muffins

Ingredients:
2 1/2 cup oats
3/4 cup plain low fat greek yogurt
2 eggs
3/4 cup sweetener, I chose Splenda since I have a big bag of it
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
3 bananas
1 tbsp peanut butter

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spray muffin tin with cooking spray or use foil liners. Apparently when muffin mixes have non-flour bases they tend to stick to typical paper liners and I coincidentally had these awesome pirate foil liners. :)
2. Place all ingredients into food processor and blend until oats are completely smooth.


3. Divide batter among cupcake liners (I used 1/4 cup in each liner and ended up with exactly a dozen!), and bake 20-25 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean!



4. Enjoy for breakfast or a midnight snack! ;-)