Banana-Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake

Up in the morning, feeling inspired by a new recipe or the weather? Makes you want to turn on the oven & bake, right?
Maybe you have some friends stopping over, or maybe it's the weekend & you want to treat the family to something warm & fresh?

Well, this is the perfect recipe for a crisp Fall or Spring morning!

Ingredients:
Coffee Cake
2 1/4 cups Original Bisquick® mix
1 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 2 medium)
1/2 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup milk
2 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 egg

Glaze
1 cup powdered sugar
1 tablespoon milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:
1.Heat oven to 375°F. Spray 8-inch square pan with cooking spray. In medium bowl, stir all coffee cake ingredients with wire whisk or fork until blended. Spread in pan.

2.Bake 26 to 30 minutes or until golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 30 minutes.

3.In small bowl, mix all glaze ingredients until smooth. If necessary, add additional milk, 1 teaspoon at a time, until thin enough to drizzle. Drizzle glaze over warm coffee cake. Serve warm.

Variation:
Stir in a half cup of your favorite chopped nuts.

High Altitude (3500-6500 ft): Bake 30 to 34 minutes.

Nutrition Information:
1 Serving: Calories 310 (Calories from Fat 90); Total Fat 10g (Saturated Fat 4 1/2g, Trans Fat 1g); Cholesterol 30mg; Sodium 400mg; Total Carbohydrate 51g (Dietary Fiber 2g, Sugars 28g); Protein 4g Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 2%; Vitamin C 0%; Calcium 6%; Iron 6% Exchanges: 1 Starch; 2 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Vegetable; 2 Fat Carbohydrate Choices: 3 1/2
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Enjoy, Breeze!!

~ Chocolate Cinnamon Scones ~

Chocolate Cinnamon Scones
Yields: At least 2 Dozen


Dry Ingredients:
• 3 ½ C Flour, All-Purpose
• ¼ C Sugar
• 3 T Baking Powder
• ¼ tsp Salt
• 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon

Additional Ingredients:
• 1 stick Butter, Cold
• 1 ¼ C Milk, Cold
• 1 ½ - 2 C Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chunks/Chips

Directions:
1. Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees.

2. In a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or a hand mixer), mix the DRY ingredients together.

3. Grab a stick of butter from the fridge and cut into pieces. With the mixer running add butter until course and ‘sandy’. You should still be able to see lumps of butter in the mixture.

4. Grab 1 ¼ C milk from the fridge and let mix until almost combined.

5. Add chocolate chunks (almost a full bag which is equal to 2 C). Mix just to distribute them evenly through the dough. DO NOT over mix.

6. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface & knead 10 times to bring it together.

7. Separate into 2 even pieces, and smooth out into circle shapes.


8. Using your hands or a rolling pin, roll or pat out to 1-inch thick.
** You may also roll out and cut with a round biscuit/cookie cutter.


9. Cut each circle in half, & cut into desired amount of pieces like a pie.
**The smaller the pieces, the more you need to watch the bake time.


Note: After transferring each piece to an un-greased cookie sheet, you may also brush an egg wash (1T water with one egg, beaten) over scones and top with sugar for a nice finished touch.

10. Bake until golden brown, about 15 minutes

I hope you and your company ENJOY these lovely and delicious scones.
They may be served alone for a quick snack or breakfast or with an entire breakfast/brunch spread.

**Project Note:
You can also put all dry ingredients into a wide mouth canning jar, and attach a recipe card with complete instructions for others to complete recipe. [They of course will provide the wet ingredients for recipe] Wrap a nice piece of cloth around lid and tie off with a piece of decorative string and attach recipe card, before giving.

~Breeze