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Banana Bread

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Course Dessert

Ingredients
  

Sugar Base

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter, unsalted see salt below
  • 2 large eggs

Banana Stuff

  • 3-4 ripe bananas some brown to all brown
  • 1 tbsp milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

Dry Stuff

  • 2 cups flour (or 1 3/4 cups and 1/4 cup oat flour)
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt 3/4 if using salted butter

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350F, and prepare a 9x5" loaf ban by greasing it very well with butter, or with a parchment paper "basket". See below for muffins.

Sugar Base

  • Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  • Keep mixing and add 1 egg at a time.

Banana Stuff

  • In a separate bowl, mash the banana stuff with a potato masher. Some small lumps are good.

Dry Stuff

  • In a separate bowl, combine all the Dry Stuff

Putting it all together

  • Stir the Sugar Base with the Banana Stuff until just combined.
  • Add the Dry Stuff and stir until the flour disappears.

Baking

  • Fill your prepared loaf pan no more than 3/4 to the top.
  • Bake for approximately 60 minutes, give or take 10. Do a toothpick test at 50 minutes, and repeat every 5 until don. If a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean, it's done.
  • Remove the pan from the oven, and let it cool for 15 minutes.
  • Invert the loaf onto a wire rack, remove the pan, and let the loaf cool to room temperature.

Notes

  • DO NOT OVERMIX THE BATTER. It will produce gluten, and make the banana bread tough and chewy.
  • For muffins, raise the temp by 25F, and cut the baking time by at least half. Start toothpick test after 15 minutes, done if the toothpick comes out clean. Either use a well-greased muffin tin, or muffin liners. Do not fill the individual wells more than 3/4 to the top. I recommend making 12 with these amounts.
  • Optional - add up to 1 cup of nuts, chocolate chips, chopped fruit (preferably dried fruit that has soaked in your favourite alcohol for 30 minutes). Stir this into the batter right before pouring into the loaf pan.
Keyword Banana