Banana Pear Caterpillar Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 and grease and flour 2 9x5 loaf pans. In small bowl blend bananas and pears In a large bowl, mix together eggs, banana mixture, sugar, cooking oil and vanilla. Beat until well mixed. In another bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and a bit of salt. Add the egg mixture to the flour mixture and stir with a spatula until it's well moistened but not too well mixed. Spoon batter into the loaf pans, filling about 2/3 of the way full bake for 50-55 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted near the center comes back out clean. Cool for 10 minutes in pan before taking a butter knife and loosening the edges of the bread from the pan. Turn out bread onto a wire baker's rack and cover with a dry towel until completely cooled.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Mash bananas and pears in a bowl.
• In a separate bowl, mix the rest of the ingredients until creamed together.
• Stir in the fruit mixture.
• Pour the batter into a greased loaf pan.
• Bake for an hour and half.
• Let cool for at least 10 minutes so it doesn't fall apart (it solidifies more with time).

Steps:

• Peel and slice each banana into 10 segments.
• Assemble "caterpillar" by spreading segments with peanut butter and pressing pieces together.
• Sprinkle half of coconut over each "caterpillar" and press lightly with fingertips to coat.
• Use additional peanut butter to press raisins on one end to form "eyes."
• Break pretzel sticks into small pieces for "legs" and "antenna.".
• Tip: use different colored dyed coconut for a very colorful caterpillar!

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
• Peel and core pear. Grate pear flesh into a bowl.
• Mix brown sugar and butter in a bowl with an electric mixer until well blended. Mix in eggs, then add bananas and pear. Gradually mix in flour and baking soda. Add vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, and almond extract; mix until just combined. Pour into the prepared loaf pan.
• Bake on the center rack of the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out fairly clean, about 1 hour.