My favorite Zucchini Bread

I love Zucchini!! I love it sauteed, stir fried, pan fried, deep fried, in Pie, in Cake and most definitely in Bread. I grated and froze some of our bounty the year before last and some other people's bounty last year. It is a yummy reminder of the summer ahead to pull out a fresh batch of Zucchini Bread in the middle of the winter. Here is my favorite recipe.

3 Eggs
1C veg. oil
2 C packed Brown Sugar
3 tsp. vanilla
3 C grated zucchini
1 Tbsp. molasses
4 C unsifted flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
¼ tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. ginger

Preheat oven to 350° F. Beat eggs, add oil and brown sugar, beat well. Add vanilla, grated zucchini and molasses. Beat well. Mix dry ingredients, then add to wet mixture. Beat well. Bake in greased loaf pans for 1 hour. Cool slightly then remove from pans.

♥This recipe is also very yummy for Pumpkin bread. Just leave out the zucchini and add 1 can of pumpkin and 1/3 C. water

Gingerbread houses

Every year Dave and I make Gingerbread houses for my side of the family to decorate together on Christmas Eve. This year we made extras to give to some of our friends as well. It takes a lot of work adn makes a big mess, so we can't make them for ALL of our friends. But we decided on a few families to share with this year. (If you are reading this and did not get them, it is not because we don't love you! You will get them next year!!)

We ended up making 40 houses in total. We also made Carmels, Snickerdoodles, Cocoadoodles, Chocolate Chip cookies, and Peanut Butter Oaties to give to our other friends who did not get gingerbread. I love to bake and give treats away, but next year I hope I can work it into the schedule a week sooner so we don't have the big mess in the kitchen right before Christmas.

Baking Day and Catching Up

Today was a Baking Day.  We made three kinds of cookies.  I made Dark Chocolate Bon Bon Cookies and CocoaDoodles and Dave made his famous, gooey Chocolate Chip cookies.  I still need to do some more baking tonight and tomorrow before I can deliver treats to my friends.  But I am a lot closer to being all finished.

We have been so busy lately that I havent taken the time to blog, so here is a recap.

Last week was the boys Christmas Program at school.  It was really cute. 430 Kindergarteners and 1st graders singing and dancing in the High School Gym.  The bleachers were packed with parents and grandparents and it was crazy!!

Here is Tayden.  He is toward the back in the gray argyle sweater vest.

And here is Kyler.  He is in the back in the black Argyle sweater vest.

They both did a GREAT job!

Last weekend Kyler and his cousin and my dad all celebrated their birthdays together.

My sister made the cake.  It was yummy! She made it look like a space ship that landed on Uranus and there were 2 aliens that had gotten out of the ship.  Kyler is really into space and planets right now. While we were there we enjoyed hearing Kyler tell us all about Uranus and we all had a good laugh making jokes.  Kyler doesn't know yet what other meaning there is with Uranus, so he just thought he was really funny.  My family is all about cheap humor.  :)

I hopr I will get a chance to blog again before Christmas, but if not, I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and enjoy being with your families.