the list...

so i have a list going of friends that i like to send care packages to (actually its just people who i have actually gotten addresses from). i am SLOWLY getting through all of them, however, on this last day off i decided to just knock a couple off all at once. i basically went on a complete baking spree!! i had told a friend of mine that i would make him some bread, so i decided on a banana bread. i also wanted to make another friend some cookies, so i decided on a recipe my auntie rina had given me when she was in town..."$$$ cookies" is what she calls them. and finally, i made blondies, because they are just so great!!^_^ so i set to work...along the way i decided that i was going mix things up a bit, something you can easily tell i enjoy doing, and also because it gets boring following the same recipe all the time, so why not experiment!? i had always mad the banana bread very simply, no nuts, no added anything, VERY BORING! well, on my tour through the cordon bleu school i had tried a girl's banana bread and she had put chocolate and nuts in it. WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT?!  well, i had made it with chocolate chips before, but i think the chips, although small, were a bit too much still, so i chopped them up even smaller. so i attempted to do it myself. i had leftover toasted pecans and some chopped up chocolate chips from the cookies so i threw them in...

mashed banana, chopped pecans, and chopped chocolate chips...

i hope he and his wife enjoy the bread^_^

with the first round of cookies i had made after my aunt had left me the recipe i had the same problem of chocolate chips that were just too large. don;t get me wrong in chocolate chip cookies i love the chips and i wish there were LOADS of them, but when you have them competing with so many other added flavors, you want to tone it done a bit. so i chopped them up, and made them as uniform as i could for packaging purposes. mmmm cookies hope my friends enjoy them!^_^ 

finally! the best one! i had actually always loved making blondies. i think it was because i had never really heard of them or known about them when i had grown up, sure you hear about chocolate chip cookies, and regular brownies, but blondies? my point exactly^_~ well, i had found a recipe by emril about a year or two ago, i made my own little tweeks to make the inside a bit more dense and threw in some white chocolate chips just for good measure...pre-baked goodness...

i hope the overnight team back at my old store appreciate this one^_~

basically by the end of it i was baked out, if that is even possible...but i am happy to have FINALLY sent the goodies to my good friends^_^ miss you guys!