Peanut Butter Crock Pot Bread

Okay, I found this recipe and I just had to post it...I can't wait to try it and if you do, please let me know what you think...I love peanut butter and I love bread...so what could be better then a PJ sandwich in the crock pot...yummmy....


Peanut Butter Crock pot Bread

• 2 cups flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup peanut butter, smooth or crunchy
• 1 egg, slightly beaten
• 1 cup milk

Preparation:

Mix flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in bowl. Cut in peanut butter. Stir in nuts. Add egg and milk and mix with fork only until dry ingredients are moistened. Turn into well greased and floured 2-pound coffee can, loaf pan or insert. Cover with paper towels & lid. With cover slightly ajar, cook on high for 2 hours or until done. Let stand in insert or on a cake rack for 10 minutes. Turn out on rack to completely cool. Store overnight before slicing.

Happy Slow Cooking! Enjoy!

Pumpkin Bread

Here's a recipe that you can make in the oven or in the crock pot...

Pumpkin Bread

1/2 c. oil
1/2 c. white sugar
1/2 c. brown sugar
2 beaten eggs
1 c. canned pumpkin
1 1/2 c. sifted flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg or 1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp. soda
1 c. chopped walnuts
1/2 c. dates, cut up

Blend oil and sugars, stir in eggs and pumpkin. Sift dry ingredients and add to above. Stir in nuts and dates. Pour butter into greased and floured 2 pound coffee can. Place can in an upright crock pot (if you do not have an upright...you can put the batter in a well greased loaf pan). Put your 8 paper towels on opening and then place lid on crock pot. cook on HIGH for 3 hours. No peeking until last hour. If you make this in the loaf pan, you may not have to cook as long....

CONVENTIONAL OVEN: In loaf pan, bake at 350 degrees for approximately 1 hour.

Happy Slow Cooking! Enjoy!

Honey Wheat Bread

Bread is something you can make in the crock pot...so I will be posting bread recipes for the next couple of posts...Hope you enjoy!

Honey Wheat Bread

2 c. warm skim milk
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
2 tbsp. honey
2 tbsp. molasses
3/4 tsp. salt
1 pkg. active dry yeast
3 c. whole wheat flour
3/4 c. bran
1/4 c. wheat germ

Preheat crock pot on high setting for 30 minutes. Combine warm (not hot) milk, oil, honey, molasses, salt, yeast and half the flour in a bowl. With electric mixer, beat well for about 2 minutes. Add remaining flour; mix well. Place dough in well-greased baking pan (loaf pan); cover, bake on HIGH for 3 hours.


**don't forget...when making bread in the crock pot, you want to take about 8 paper towels and place them over the crock pot opening and then place the lid on the crock pot...this will keep the condensation from making your bread wet...

Happy Slow Cooking! Enjoy...

Baking Bread in the Crock Pot tips

I've had a few people ask about making bread in the crock pot, so I thought I would share these tips to help you out...If you remember these tips, you'll have wonderful bread...from the crock pot...

Tips:

1. Save your coffee cans, canned vegetable cans, use the loaf pan you all ready have, etc. Any 1, 2 or 3 pound coffee or nut can or any metal mold that holds 4, 8 or 12 cups. (copper gelatin molds, baking pans, etc.) can be used...
2. Grease insert or can with solid vegetable shortening.
3. Only half fill the insert or can. This allows for rising.
4. Heat needs to be able to circulate around the insert. If a baking rack isn't available, crumple up enough aluminum foil to raise the can about an inch from the bottom of the crockpot.
5. If there is not lid, cover the can with a double thickness of paper towels.(about 8 paper towels)
   
6. Place lid on crockpot for baking...the lid will hold the paper towels in place.
   
7. Generally, baking is done on high heat, but you should follow the recipe instructions.
8. Only lift lid to check for doneness. (usually in the last hour) Lifting the lid too often will let necessary heat escape.
9. Use pot holders or folded paper towels to remove can or insert from crock pot.

I hope these tips will help you make wonderful breads and cakes in your crock pot...

Happy Slow Cooking! Enjoy!

Sweet Rolls

Sweet Rolls (this is sort of like Monkey Bread)

Ingredients:

2 packages of refrigerator biscuits (the pop biscuits in a tube)
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup chopped nuts
Cinnamon and sugar

Directions:

In a mixing bowl you will want to mix the nuts with the brown sugar and set aside. After dipping the biscuits in the melted butter, you will want to drop each biscuit in the brown sugar/nut mix. Coating each side with the brown sugar and nuts. Place the biscuits in a bread pan that will fit inside your crock pot. Sprinkle with the cinnamon and a small amount of sugar between each layer of biscuits.

Before placing the bread pan in the crockpot, you will want to make a foil circle (take some aluminum foil and scrunch it up into a long crumpled piece, make a ring with the foil and put the foil in the bottom of the crock pot...then put the bread pan on top of the foil. Take 3 or 4 pieces of paper towel and place across the top of the crock pot and put lid on crockpot to hold the paper towel in place.

Cook on HIGH 3 - 4 hours...leave alone until the end of the cooking time.

The reason for the foil (and this was a new tip for me) is that it keeps the cake pan/bread pan, etc. from touching the bottom of the crockpot which helps everything cook more evenly...

The reason for the paper towels (another new tip) is that crock pot's have condensation when they cook...you don't want that condensation to get on the cake, etc. because it will get soggy (which has happened to me before)...so the paper towel soaks up the condensation, and keeps it from dripping down on your cake, etc.

Enjoy and Happy Slow Cooking...Hugs...