Everyone has faced the problem of bringing home a bunch of green bananas and having them become over-ripe in what seems like minutes. While over ripe bananas are too mushy to carry around like a portable snack, there's no reason to waste them when with just a little butter, some flour, sugar, spices and an egg you can make delicious quick banana bread.
You'll need to gather the following: (everything should be about room temp)
You'll need to gather the following: (everything should be about room temp)
- 1 3/4 cups sifted all purpose flour. (I use unbleached.)
- 2 1/4 tsp double acting baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt (may be omitted for low sodium diets)
- 1/2 tsp good vanilla (not the weird fake stuff)
- 1/3 cup butter (5.5 tbsp)
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 3/4 tbsp orange zest (or lemon zest)
- 1 or 2 eggs. (I had jumbo eggs, so I used one. If you have small eggs, use two.)
- 1-3 ripe bananas
- spices to taste (I used (approximately) 1/8 tsp cardamom, 1/8 tsp ground clove, and about 1/2 tsp each of cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg. Ginger also works well in this recipe if you like ginger.)
- Optional: Planetary mixer
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1.) Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F (177 C)
2.) Cream butter, sugar, vanilla, and zest.
3.) Beat in eggs and banana until mixture is creamy, but not so long that it starts to separate.
Time may vary depending on mixer. Planetary mixers like mine will do this in under 90 seconds, hand mixers may take a lot longer.)
Scrape the sides back down, as needed before the next step.
2.) Cream butter, sugar, vanilla, and zest.
3.) Beat in eggs and banana until mixture is creamy, but not so long that it starts to separate.
Time may vary depending on mixer. Planetary mixers like mine will do this in under 90 seconds, hand mixers may take a lot longer.)
Scrape the sides back down, as needed before the next step.
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I was planning on using 1/3 cup honey, 1/3 cup brown sugar , instead of 2/3 regular sugar. Do you figure that will be okay?
I will post the results,
Thank you soapy hollow!!!!!!!