Banana and Cream Cheese Filled French Toast Waffles

Makes: 8 servings

Start to Finish: 25 minutes

Ingredients

½ cup bananas

6 tablespoons cream cheese

3 tablespoons powder sugar

Cinnamon for taste

Orange Extract or Pure Vanilla Extract for taste

4 eggs

¾ cup milk

2 tablespoons sugar

¼ teaspoon orange extract

¼ teaspoon cinnamon

8 slices day old whole wheat bread

Pinch of salt

Directions

1: Set waffle iron to medium high heat.

2: Place bananas, cream cheese, powder sugar, and cinnamon and orange or pure vanilla extract into blender. Pulse until mixture is well blended and not too thin, about 5 to 10 seconds. Set in refrigerator as you complete the next steps.

3: Mix eggs, milk, sugar, ¼ orange extract, ¼ cinnamon, and salt in bowl until well blended.

4: Remove mixture from refrigerator, spread mixture on one side of bread, sandwich with another slice of bread, dip sandwich into egg batter, and then place sandwich on waffle iron.

5: Cook sandwich in waffle iron until it reaches the texture of your liking and serve immediately.

-Mama With Flavor-

Red Velvet Fried Chicken

Makes: 10 servings

Start to Finish: 30 minutes (with premade red velvet cake mix)

Ingredients

10 pieces of chicken drumsticks

1 box red velvet cake mix (and additional items to make cake mix)

Oil (varies depending on size of your frying pan)

Directions

1: Make red velvet cake batter according to box instructions.

2: Separate half of cake batter into a bowl and reserve for dipping.

3: Bake remaining cake batter according to box instructions.

4: Cover cool baked cake and let stand over night for drying.

5: Put dried out cake into food processor and pulse until cake is in light small crumb form. Pour crumbs into a shallow dish for coating.   

5: Fill frying pan 1/3 with oil over medium high heat.

6: Dip drumsticks in unbaked cake batter, remove excess batter, and roll into cake crumbs.

7: Place coated drumsticks in frying pan and fry until tender and a deep red color. Frying time should be 7 to 10 minutes, turning midway through.

8: Place drumsticks on paper towel for draining and serve immediately.

-Yeast Confection-