Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, better than fruitcake!. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Better Than Fruitcake! is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Better Than Fruitcake! is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook better than fruitcake! using 18 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Better Than Fruitcake!:
- Prepare 3 tbsp melted butter
- Make ready 3 tbsp sour cream
- Make ready 5 banana's semi soft but not mushy.
- Make ready 1 1/2 tbsp malibu rum
- Get 2 tsp marachino cherry juice
- Get 2 eggs
- Get 1/2 tsp lemon juice
- Make ready 1 cup peeled/cored diced apples
- Make ready 1/4 cup pineapple tidbits well drained
- Prepare 1/4 cup raisins
- Make ready 20 marachino cherries
- Make ready 1/4 cup dried cranberries or craisins
- Prepare 1/4 cup dried strawberries or firm fresh strawberries
- Take 1/4 cup walnut pieces or candied walnut pieces
- Prepare 1/4 cup cashew pieces or candied cashew pieces
- Get 2 cup flour
- Take 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Get 1 cup sugar
Instructions to make Better Than Fruitcake!:
- preheat oven to 350°F
- place diced apples and lemon juice in a bowl. toss to coat. set aside.
- cut pinapple tid bits into 4 pieces and cut cherries into 4 pieces. set aside.
- in a bowl places peeled whole banana's, rum, eggs, sugar, cherry juice, butter and sour cream.
- blend with hand mixer until blended but still chunky.
- sift together flour and baking soda. mix flour mix into banana mix by hand using a spoon.
- fold in apples.
- place all nuts and all remaining fruits into banana mix. and gently fold in.
- grease 2 bread loaf pans very well.
- fill said loaf pans halfway with mix evenly.
- bake on middle oven rack for 1 hour or until thoughrally cooked.. toothpick inserted into center should come out clean.. top should browned.
- cool on wire rack.
- slice and serve!
- enjoy!
- makes 2 loafs..
- hint( fruit measurements should be slightly heaping.
Turn to Food to Boost Your Mood
Many of us believe that comfort foods are not good for us and that we ought to keep away from them. Sometimes, if your comfort food is basically candy or other junk foods, this can be true. Otherwise, comfort foods can be really healthy and good for you. There are some foods that basically can raise your moods when you eat them. If you seem to be a little bit down and in need of an emotional pick me up, try a number of these.
Eggs, believe it or not, are great for helping you fight depression. Just see to it that you don’t get rid of the yolk. When you would like to cheer yourself up, the egg yolk is the most essential part of the egg. Eggs, the yolk especially, are rich in B vitamins. B vitamins can be great for boosting your mood. This is because the B vitamins increase the function of your brain’s neural transmitters (the parts of the brain that dictate how you feel). Eat an egg and feel better!
Make several trail mix of nuts or seeds. Almonds, cashews, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and so on are all great for elevating your mood. This is possible since these foods have a bunch of magnesium which promotes your production of serotonin. Serotonin is a feel-good chemical that dictates to the brain how to feel at any given moment. The more of it you have, the more pleasant you are going to feel. Not only that but nuts, particularly, are a terrific protein food source.
Cold water fish are great for eating if you want to beat back depression. Salmon, herring, tuna, mackerel, trout, etcetera, they’re all high in omega-3s and DHA. DHA and omega-3s are two things that truly help the grey matter in your brain work a lot better. It’s the truth: eating tuna fish sandwiches can really help you overcome your depression.
Grains can be excellent for driving away a terrible mood. Quinoa, barley, millet, etc are excellent at helping you feel better. They can help you feel full for longer also, helping you feel better. Feeling starved can truly make you feel terrible! The reason these grains help your mood so much is that they are not hard for your body to digest. These foods are easier to digest than others which helps kick start a rise in your blood sugar which in turn takes your mood to a happier place.
Green tea is excellent for moods. You just knew green tea had to be in this article somewhere, right? Green tea is chock-full of an amino acid called L-theanine. Studies have discovered that this amino acid essentially stimulates brain waves. This will better your brain’s focus while at the same loosening up the rest of your body. You already knew that green tea helps you feel healthier. Now you know that it helps you to lift your moods as well!
Now you can see that junk food isn’t necessarily what you need to eat when you wish to help your moods get better. Test out these hints instead!
