Friday's Fave Five #15

Welcome to Friday's Fave Five. Please join us as we reflect back upon our week and find 5 favorite things. If you're new, details are here. Otherwise jump right in and don't forget to sign Mr. Linky!

1. My Bed. And more specifically my bed with my big ole duvet and duvet cover. For some reason I've just been so tired and so ready to crawl right in under that big duvet and onto my comfy mattress. I love how comfy it it is. And because it's in a cover there's no bunching up of sheets at your feet.

2. This email/post cracks me right up. And having both a dog and a cat, this is so totally closer to truth than we probably realize.

3. Monkey Bars. Oh my word. These are soooo good. I made 2 pans the other day. One for the kid's youth group meeting and the other for dayhome and ourselves. Not a one came back from youth group and our pan lasted exactly one day. Wish I had a picture for you but they disappeared to darn fast. So I'll give you the recipe instead. Another bonus? So easy.

-3/4 cup butter or marg.
-2/3 cup white sugar
-2/3 cup brown sugar
-1 egg
-1 tsp. vanilla
-1 cup ripe mashed bananas (3 medium: the riper, ie: think mostly brown, the better)
-2 1/4 cup flour
-2 tsp. baking powder
-1/2 tsp. salt
-1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350*F. Grease a 13x9 pan.

In a large mixing bowl beat margarine with mixer until softened. Add sugars and beat until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla, beating well. Stir in mashed bananas.

In another bowl, stir flour, baking powder and salt. With mixer on low speed gradually add flour mix to the banana mixture beating until well mixed. Stir in chips with a spoon. Spread batter in baking pan. Bake 30 - 40 mins. until cake tester comes out clean. Cool in the pan. Awesome as is but you can sift icing sugar over the top if you desire. I find it doesn't neet it. Enjoy.

I've played around a bit with this recipe and it's also awesome with added chopped nuts such as pecans or walnuts. If you like peanut butter and bananas, then peanut butter chips are the way to go. When I didn't have any kind of chips on hand I instead added 1/4 cup cocoa and 1 tsp. cinnamon and it was really good too!

4. Farmhouse Apple Candles from Yankee candles. So nice smelling. A store in town that carries them, Linens & Things, is going out of business, so I'm going to have to scoot down there this weekend and see if I can score a good deal on them.

5. Throw blankets. Love cozying up under them on the couch with these colder fall evenings upon us. It's not only cozy to me but comforting somehow.

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