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Best Banana Bread Recipe
Looking for the best banana bread recipe?Banana breads come in all varieties, shapes, and sizes. Do you like your banana bread moist or cakey? Some like it denser than a yellow cake for example, but not quite as dry as wheat bread. Give all of the recipes below a chance and then come back here and vote for your favorite. By the way, if you have a real sweet tooth, check out our Best Cheesecake Recipes and Best Cookie Recipes too. Have Fun cooking these great banana bread recipes. Walnut Banana Bread
Thanks to Cooking For Engineers for this great recipe.This website offers a lot of great pics of their recipes from start to cooking finish. Note: Start by preparing a loaf pan by buttering the bottom of the pan and sides (or use a light cooking spray). Just lightly flour the pan and tap out the excess flour so that none of the floor remains in the bottom of the pan. The loaf pan should be around 5 in. by 9 in. in size. INGREDIENTS: The wet ingredients are: 2 ripe bananas (note see tip for ripening) 6 Tbs. melted butter 1 tsp. vanilla extract and finally two large eggs. Here are the dry ingredients: 1-1/3 cup flour 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/4 tsp. baking powder 2/3 cup sugar 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 cup chopped walnuts. COOKING DIRECTIONS: Combine and use a whisk to whisk all the dry ingredients except for the walnuts. The use of both baking soda and powder are necessary to provide enough leavening for the best consistency of the bread. The baking soda is just enough to utilize the slight acidity of the bananas to create the desired carbon dioxide bubbles. Baking powder (which is a mix of baking soda, a base, and cream of tartar, an acid) provides even more leavening power. Mash the bananas, melted butter, and vanilla extract together. Lightly beat the eggs together. Now, mash the banana mixture with the eggs until smooth and well blended. (this is very important) Pour the banana mixture onto the dry ingredients. Add the walnuts. Fold the ingredients together until no more white flour is uncovered while folding.Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake for 55 minutes at 350°F. After 55 minutes, the loaf of banana bread should be done. A wooden toothpick inserted into the center should come out clean. Set the pan on a wire rack to cool for ten minutes. Remove the loaf from the pan and let cool on the wire rack. Serve warm or fully cooled. The loaf can be wrapped in plastic and stored at room temperature for about four or five days. (Note: I don't think you'll have it for more than four or five days...) Zucchini Banana Bread Recipe
Thanks to The Fresh Loaf.com for this great recipe.Fresh Loaf has a lot of great bread recipes, so give their site a visit. OK? INGREDIENTS: Combine these ingredients: 1 cup mashed ripe bananas 2 beaten eggs 3/4 cup vanilla yogurt 1 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup white sugar 1/2 cup vegetable oil (try to find low fat oil) 1 tsp vanilla 2 1/2 cups grated zucchini COOKING DIRECTIONS: Combine these ingredients and slowly add to first ingredients, mixing well. 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup whole wheat flour (please use whole wheat... good for you) 5 tsp baking powder 1 1/2 tsp salt and don't forget to- Finally add these: 1/4 cup chopped almonds1/2 cup raisins (presoaked in hot water) Bake about 45 minutes (until your toothpick comes out clean). Cool in pans for 5 minutes, then turn out loaves onto cooling rack. Marble Chocolate Banana Bread
Thanks to Dianas Desserts.com for this great banana bread recipe.Diana's Desserts has a great recipe blog with some of the finest recipes out there and you can rate the recipes too! Note: Don't forget, our Chef Tips and the bottom of our best banana bread recipe page. You'll find some great cooking tips. INGREDIENTS: 2 cups all-purpose flour 3/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup granulated sugar 1/4 cup (1/2 stick/2 oz/) softened butter 1 1/2 cups well mashed ripe banana (about 2 1/2 bananas) 2 eggs 1/3 cup plain yogurt 1/2 cup chocolate chips (better if semisweet) Cooking spray for baking pan (again... find low fat spray) COOKING INSTRUCTIONS: Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly spoon flour into measuring cups, and level with knife. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt, stirring with a whisk. Place sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended (about 60 seconds). Add banana, eggs, and yogurt and beat until blended. Add flour mixture and beat at low speed or just until moist. Place chocolate chips in a medium microwave-safe bowl, and microwave at HIGH 1 minute or until almost melted, stirring until smooth. Cool slightly. Add 1 cup batter to chocolate, stirring until well combined. Spoon chocolate batter alternately with plain batter into an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2-inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Swirl batters together using a knife. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool Ten minutes in pan on a wire rack and then remove from pan. Cool on wire rack. Makes 1 loaf or about 16 slices By the way, here is a site with Scottish food recipes and a lot of great dessert breads. Take a look at Authentic Scottish Food Recipes. Secret Restaurant RecipesCopycat Cookbook here!Easily Prepare the Most Guarded Secret Restaurant Recipes in Your Own Kitchen. Impress your friends this week-end! Save huge amounts of money by cooking your favorite dishes at home! You will save thousands of dollars per year by cooking just one of these recipes each week rather than going out to eat. Learn to cook the highly guarded secrets behind Restaurant dishes from: » Red Lobster » Applebee's » Chili's » Olive Garden » T.G.I. Fridays » Outback Steakhouse » Starbucks Free Bonus! COOKIE COOKBOOK - Bake incredible cookies with the new 225 Cookie Recipes e-cookbook from Divine Recipes Cookbook Collection. Copycat Cookbook Here! Return to homepage from best banana bread recipe page.
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