It's important to be as creative with cooking as you are with crafting. Even though I bake goodies that everyone loves and requests, sometime I just want to put a different spin on tried and true recipes. My mom's banana bread recipe is a classic but she also loved making fruitcake during the holidays. Since I had the overripe bananas and an ample supply of dried fruits, I decided my mom would approve of a Banana 'Fruitcake' Bread. It was a tasty and successful experiment. Because of the bananas the loaves are more moist than fruitcake so I think this will be my holiday baked gift to friends and family.
Another of my baked goods which always gets a request for the recipe (it's Martha Stewart's original). I love the taste of the cookies but as with most peanut butter cookies the look of the cookies with just the crisscross markes is rather boring. I decided that sprinkles (I hve lots of them because I mistakenly purchased a gigantic container online LOL!) would spruce up the look of the cookies. I dipped each ball of dough in sprinkles before flattening and baking them. The festive look of the sprinkle colors really adds to the yummy Peanut 'Sprinkle' Butter cookies. An added bonus to the sprinkles is a crunchy texture. As with your craftwork, I hope that you will experiment with your cooking because you never know what marvelous goodies you will create. Think out of the box and make life more interesting and tasty!
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