Banana Sheet Cake

shown without icing

This is a very good breakfast (and easily halved). There's no difference (to me) between using sour cream or yogurt. It's just GOOD every time. And super, super easy! I have often made this breakfast the night before.


Banana Sheet Cake
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1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup sour cream OR plain yogurt
1 cup butter (or 1/2 cup butter and 1/2 cup margarine)
2 eggs
1 1/2 cup mashed bananas (about 3 medium)
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
2 cups flour

Preheat oven to 375

°

. Grease 10x15 baking sheet.
Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and spread onto baking sheet.
Bake 25 minutes or until golden.

OPTIONAL ICING:
Melt 1/2 cup butter on stove top. Remove from heat and add:
2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3 TBS milk
Stir until smooth and spread on warm cake.

Orange Julius

Orange Julius
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1/2 can frozen orange juice concentrate (6 of the 12 oz.)
12 ice cubes (about one tray)
1 cup water
1 cup milk
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Dump ice cubes into blender first.
Thaw the can of orange juice a little under hot water to loosen the juice. Scoop half the juice into the blender.
Follow with remaining ingredients, blend until well mixed. Serve immediately (although...we've kept some in the fridge when we can't manage to finish it, and it's actually still very delicious--just kind of shake it to mix it up again).

Pauper's Sandwich

Pauper's Sandwich

I think this came to life via lack of bread...

It's exactly what it looks like: peanut butter and Nutella on a tortilla.

Spread in stripes and roll up parallel to stripes.

Bananas add a nice touch, too!

UPDATE: these days, I take it to the max...of laziness.
I just do straight nutella. It's actually a favorite snack of mine.