Banana Chocolate Chip Doughnuts with Peanut Butter Glaze

I don't know about you, but whenever I buy a bunch of bananas, I can never seem to finish eating all of them before they get too ripe. I do like my bananas a bit on the unripe side, so maybe my criteria for bad bananas is a little too harsh. Luckily, there are a million delicious recipes that use up over-ripe bananas... in fact, maybe I just let them get that way because my subconscious craves banana bread. My subconscious effing loves banana bread.

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Banana Nut Muffins with Yogurt Icing

Did you guys know that Banana Nut Cheerios are a thing? They are, and they're amazing. My boyfriend told me about them about a month ago, and my brain has been in banana nut mode ever since. Besides eating big bowls of the Cheerios with him, I've put bananas and peanut butter in my oatmeal, shared a caramelized banana/walnut gelato creation while out for dinner one night, and browsed dozens of banana nut muffin recipes online (I used to be pretty heavily addicted to Tim Horton's banana nut muffins in university). An obsession has been unleashed.


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Lantana Crack Cake

My very last afternoon in London, some of my friends and I planned to meet up to get coffee and say our goodbyes. I was the second of our group to arrive at Lantana, an Australian cafe in Fitzrovia, only to find that it was closing. My friend Jeannie and I had just enough time to make last minute orders – mine was an Americano and a Lantana “crack cake.” With a name like that? I had to.

I can’t be sure what exactly was in them; my memory’s hazy and I can’t find a description online (most of what people write about crack cake online are warnings: the Lantana website calls it “infamous”).  I know there was banana and coconut going on... maybe some pineapple? Cream cheese frosting, definitely. I remember it being extremely good.

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