Pan Dulce

Recently I was in Costa Rica, I visited a place called the Durika Reserve. I ate there something called Pan Dulce and liked it so much so that I asked if I could have the recipe. Here it is:

Ingredients:

1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup white flour
1 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
100 grams of butter
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon liquid vanilla

Mix the sugar with the milk and vanilla. Add the melted butter and mix until the mixture has cooled down. During the cooling down dissolve the sugar in the mixture.

Add the flour and baking powder to the mixture. The dough has a slightly thicker consistency than that for pancakes make. Add the desired flavor (cocoa, raisins, peanuts, strawberries, etc ...).

Place the dough in the pan and bake for 1 hour at 350 ° C until the cake from the inside is dry.

Banana Bread

I am getting more interested in the American Cuisine since a good friend of mine is American and she brought me back a book about American Diners.

One of the classics I heard about but actually never ate it when I've been to the USA was banana bread. Here you find the recipe I used but look around and you'll find many of them.

Ingredients:

dry ingredients:

- 10 spoons of flour

- 5 spoons of sugar

- 1/2 tea spoon of salt

- 3/4 tea spoon of baking soda

wet ingredients:

- 4 bananas that are so ripe that the outside is brown instead of yellow

- 2 eggs

- 10 ml of melted butter of sunflower oil

- 1 tea spoon of vanilla extract

Mix the dry and the wet ingredients in separate bowls. When you got two smooth mixtures, you add the wet to the dry mixture. Pour the final mix in a cake shape.

Preheat the oven on 200 degrees Celsius and when the oven is hot put the final mix in for 1 hour to 1 hour and 30 minutes. To see if it ready poke a little hole in the middle with something metal of a small diameter. It should come out almost clean.

The banana bread is according to what I read from moist to dry so depending on what you like you might need to add more flour.