Avani Recipes

09/12/2026

Christmas Gift Cookies - 6 WAYS! COMMENT "COOKIES" and i'll send you the Full Recipe right to your inbox!

💚Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
❤️Hot Cocoa Cookies
💚Soft Gingersnaps
❤️Best Sugar Cookies
💚Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies
❤️Jam Thumbprint Cookies

09/12/2026

COMMENT "CHRISTMAS" and i'll send the Full Recipe right to your inbox!
CHRISTMAS SALADS- 4 Ways! 🎄
❤Watergate Salad
💚Ambrosia Salad
❤Cranberry Fluff Salad
💚Seafoam Salad

09/12/2026

09/11/2026

Looking for a light and easy meal? Try these 4 delicious sandwich recipes! 😍🥪
Quick to make, filling and packed with tasty ingredients — perfect for breakfast, lunch or a light evening meal. ✨
Which sandwich would you try first?

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09/11/2026

Make your celebrations extra special with these delicious Boondi Ladoos! 😍🍬
Perfect for festivals, celebrations or a homemade festive treat!

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09/11/2026

Cream Cheese Banana Bread - made this and my family says- YUMMY!!
INGREDIENTS
Bread
1 large egg
1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup liquid-state coconut oil (canola or vegetable may be substituted)
1/4 cup cup sour cream (lite is okay; or Greek yogurt may be substituted)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 2 large bananas)
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
pinch salt, optional and to taste
Cream Cheese Filling
1 large egg
4 ounces softened brick-style cream cheese (lite is okay)
1/4 cup granulated sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
INSTRUCTIONS
Preheat oven to 350F. Spray one 9×5-inch loaf pan with floured cooking spray, or grease and flour the pan; set aside.
Make the Banana Bread
In a large bowl, add the egg, sugars, coconut oil, sour cream, vanilla, and whisk to combine.
Add the bananas and stir to incorporate.
Add 1 cup flour, baking powder, baking soda, optional salt, and fold with spatula or stir gently with a spoon until just combined; don’t overmix; set aside.
Turn about two-thirds of the batter out into the prepared pan, smoothing the top lightly with a spatula and pushing it into corners and sides as necessary; set aside.
Make the Cream Cheese Filling
In a large bowl, add all ingredients and whisk to combine. Alternatively, mix with a hand mixer.
Evenly pour filling mixture over the bread, smoothing the top lightly with a spatula and pushing it into corners and sides as necessary.
Top with remaining batter, smoothing the top very lightly with a spatula as to not disturb cream cheese layer and pushing batter into corners and sides as necessary.
Bake for about 48 to 50 minutes or until the top is domed, golden, and the center is set, and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, or with a few moist crumbs, but no batter. Note this is tricky because the cream cheese never gets totally solid so the toothpick test isn’t the most accurate.*
Allow bread

09/11/2026

Cream Cheese Banana Bread – light, moist and delicious! 🍌🍰

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 ripe bananas, mashed
1/4 cup sour cream
4 ounces cream cheese, softened

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Beat in eggs, one at a time, then stir in vanilla extract.
Mix in mashed bananas and sour cream until well combined.
In a separate bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth.
Pour half of the banana batter into the prepared loaf pan. Spread the cream cheese over the batter. Top with remaining banana batter.
Bake for 60-70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Allow the bread to cool in the pan for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Prep Time: 15 minutes | Cooking Time: 65 minutes | Total Time: 80 minutes
Kcal: 310 kcal | Servings: 10 servings

09/10/2026

Pennsylvania Family Confirms It’s Called Halupki, Refuses To Hear Any Further Arguments

Pennsylvania residents confirmed Wednesday that they have been eating the exact same cabbage roll for 100 years and still cannot agree on what the hell it’s called. In one town, it’s halupki. Drive 14 miles and suddenly it’s piggies. Somewhere else it’s stuffed cabbage. Mention any of these names in the wrong VFW and a 76 year-old woman named Barb will appear out of nowhere to explain why your entire family has been wrong since the Eisenhower administration.

Nobody knows where the borders are. There are no signs. You simply cross an invisible line somewhere in Pennsylvania and suddenly the word your grandmother used for 60 years is considered misinformation. The recipe is equally chaotic. There are no measurements because apparently measuring cups were considered cowardice by Pennsylvania grandmothers. The official instructions are “some meat,” “some rice,” “enough sauce,” and “you’ll know.”
NO, BARBARA. I WILL NOT KNOW.

Every family also has the only correct recipe despite all 67 counties somehow possessing a different one. Use slightly too much rice and three generations of somebody’s bloodline will begin whispering about you from the kitchen.

But the second that giant aluminum tray hits a table at a church picnic, fire hall, family reunion or grandma’s house, suddenly the conflict ends.
Halupki people. Piggies people. Stuffed cabbage people. All shoulder to shoulder, silently shoveling cabbage into their mouths while pretending they didn’t just threaten to disown each other over its name.

Pennsylvania may never agree on what to call them. But we will absolutely fight you for the last one