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  • How To Make Banana Bread With Mom’s Recipe

    How To Make Banana Bread With Mom’s Recipe

    Moms shows us how to make banana bread with a recipe she has used for years. If you want moist banana bread, I suggest using riper bananas and more of them. You will have to bake the banana bread a little longer.

    Banana bread is one of those comfort foods from childhood that still work. Having a bad day? Have some banana bread. I really like this loaf toasted with some butter on it, served with tea. Nice.

    I don’t recall the name of the cookbook this banana bread recipe comes from, but it was one of those recipe collections put together by a group of people and self published. There are many variations on banana bread, we have one made with coconut here, and a dutch oven banana bread here. But this is mom’s standard and its the one we will learn how to make banana bread with. So here we go.

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    I have found that dark metal or glass loaf pans work better for this, I like the browning of the crust. And if you want a taller loaf use slightly narrower pans than the standard loaf pan. The baking time will vary depending on your oven, they are all different.

    I’m all about saving bananas in the freezer. Have some your family wont eat? Put them in the freezer to save for this. They thaw quickly and fall apart in the batter. Nice that you don’t have to jump through all sorts of hoops to prepare them for freezing. Just throw them in. Done.

    Banana Bread – Mom’s Recipe
    Recipe Type: Baking
    Author: Community Baking Book
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    Serves: 1 loaf
    Here is how to make banana bread, this basic recipe will make a nice loaf, if you want a moist banana bread, add more bananas and bake longer.
    Ingredients
    • 1 cup sugar
    • 1/2 cup butter
    • 3 ripe bananas
    • 2 eggs
    • 2 cups all purpose flour
    • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    • 1/2 teaspoon salt
    Instructions
    1. Mix together the sugar and softened butter with a hand mixer
    2. Add in the bananas and eggs, mix them in.
    3. Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl with a fork.
    4. Add the dry ingredients into the wet batter and stir to combine, but don’t overmix.
    5. Pour into a greased loaf pan and bake for 1 hour at 350F
  • Coconut Banana Bread Recipe – GF Cooks Video

    Coconut Banana Bread Recipe – GF Cooks Video

    Not your bland banana bread recipe, this one has a few twists to make banana bread stand on its own. Too often, banana bread is this dense wet slice of cake that is overpriced in the artisanal cafe. Not this one. Watch the video, the recipe is below.

    Banana bread brings up those memories of being raised in the Midwest. You came home from school and your mom had made banana bread. You carved off a big slice and life was good.
    My aim here was to make a banana bread that wasn’t like that kind of dense stuff that they sell in coffee shops now. I put in a couple of twists that I’ve been thinking about for a while: first I added whole wheat flour, which I think adds a different flavor definitely in a little bit better structure I think. And I added coconut which I happen to love – if you’re not a big coconut band that’s okay this banana bread recipe taste great without coconut.

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    Source your bananas from the discount rack at your grocery store. Somewhere in the produce section in the far corner is probably a rack of vegetables and fruits that have been discounted because they might have some dents or they might be a little brown or have some spots on them, but they’re perfectly edible. And they’re super cheap! I got this bunch of bananas for $.69 which is a beautiful thing.

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    If you want a higher loaf you should use a slightly smaller loaf pan. There is a standard loaf pan which is 9″ x 5″, but there’s also one that they sell that just slightly narrower 8.5″ x 4.5″ (buy here) and that’ll make this pop up a bit more. You could also amp up the baking soda, but the careful if you add too much baking soda it starts to have kind of a chemical taste to it.
    What are your banana bread recipe favorites any suggestions you have any thoughts about the recipe or just your memories of banana bread let me know in the comments below thanks.

    Coconut Banana Bread Recipe

    4 super ripe bananas – ok to use less than super ripe

    1/2 cup Whole Wheat Flour

    1 cup all purpose flour

    1 1/2 tsp baking soda

    1/4 teaspoon salt

    1/2 cup sugar

    1 cup sweetened coconut

    1/2 cup (1 stick) melted butter

    1 egg, scrambled

    1/4 cup milk

    Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl.

    Add in the wet ingredients, be careful with the butter, its better if its cool, don’t want to burn anyone.

    Pour into a buttered or oiled loaf pan, I like butter better for this one.

    Bake in a 350F oven for about an hour, the sides may smell toasted before the center is done.