Good Monday Morning Monkey Mamas! Ready for this weeks giveaway?!
We monkeys love love love sweet stuff! Especially cupcakes, cookies, ice cream etc! We are looking for some great new recipes to add to our files! Got one you'd like to share? Post it here!
We also love sweet monkey pictures! They are everywhere!
We'd love to add some new photos to our files for use in the treehouse...but there are so many photos and so little time! Find them for us and post the links here!
At the end of the week we will use a random number generator to pick a number. Each comment will be numbered. If your number is drawn you are our winner!
And what is the fabulous prize this week? Well it is this simply ADORABLE Cupcake Bow! This might be sweetest thing we've ever seen! Have a little girl? A niece? A friend with a girl? This is just about the perfect birthday or anytime gift you could find! Of course this comes from a talented etsy seller, so you know that it is one of a kind!
Have fun, post those recipe or photo links, and good luck. Remember there is no limit to how many times you can enter...so start searching for recipes and photos today!
http://www.cuteoverload.com/2008/07/i-was-told-this.html
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cuteoverload.com/2008/05/three-way-monke.html
http://www.cuteoverload.com/2007/07/and-now-a-nice-.html
http://www.cuteoverload.com/2006/07/snowkey.html
Just a small sampling of the fabulous primates they have over at Cute Overload. :o) Enjoy!
Ok ladies, this is my kind of contest! Here are my favorite monkey-fied recipes! (and as always- use vegan substitutions.. you know, to be more animal friendly to all monkey friends and family! hehe)
ReplyDelete*FAMOUS* Monkey munch from a family with many many monklets (J&K+8):
http://tipnut.com/monkey-munch-recipe/
MONKEY bread:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Monkey-Bread-I/Detail.aspx
Banana BANANA bread:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Banana-Banana-Bread/Detail.aspx
I don't care to win the prize.. for one, Reed doesn't have any hair whatsoever and two.. I'm not sure his daddy would be happy if I even tried to tape this bow to his head! so if my # gets selected.. pick someone else :) ENJOY!
Here are some cute ones!
ReplyDeletehttp://community.webshots.com/album/567164755wrTsbC?start=12
Mel_816
since you monkey's like alcohol and are looking for something sweet, here ya go:
ReplyDeleteBanana's Foster
Ingredients: - 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 cup banana liqueur
- 4 bananas, cut in half lengthwise, then halved
- 1/4 cup dark rum
- 4 scoops vanilla ice cream
Directions:
Combine the butter, sugar, and cinnamon in a flambé pan or skillet.
Place the pan over low heat either on an alcohol burner or on top of the stove, and cook, stirring, until the sugar dissolves.
Stir in the banana liqueur, then place the bananas in the pan.
When the banana sections soften and begin to brown, carefully add the rum.
Continue to cook the sauce until the rum is hot, then tip the pan slightly to ignite the rum.
When the flames subside, lift the bananas out of the pan and place four pieces over each portion of ice cream.
Generously spoon warm sauce over the top of the ice cream and serve immediately.
Here a link for a recipe I came across today from the pickypalate.com...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/glazed-caramelized-roasted-banana-bread-drop-doughnuts-recipe/index.html
I haven't tried it but it sounds good! :)
Mel_816
okay so who won?
ReplyDeleteThe monkeys haven't finished the contest yet. Tomorrow is the deadline, so get those pictures or recipes in for your chance to win!
ReplyDeleteDon't know what to do with your bananas that you haven't been able to eat before they went bad? Make this easy banana bread!
ReplyDelete1/4cup shortening
1 egg
2 cups flour
1/2 t baking soda
3 T sour milk (to sour milk: mix 2.5 T milk w/ 1/2 T vinager or lemon juice) I prefer the juice
3/4 cup sugar
2/3 c mashed ripe bananas (the browner/blacker and softer the better- easier to mash!)
1/4 t salt
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
Cream shortening + sugar, add egg, and alternate flour and liquid till all is mixed well.
Bake 350 degrees in greased loaf pan 60 minutes or until golden brown & cracked on top, not gooey looking.
This recipe is EASILY DOUBLED!
If you have even more bananas left over (don't know why any monkey would, but in case you do) cut one end of the banana, squeeze them out of the peel and put them in a freezer bag, freeze them to use later for more banana bread!