Award Winning Banana Bread Food

AWARD WINNING BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Mix together with a spatula or wooden spoon (all ingredients) banana, baking soda, oil, sugar, eggs, salt and flour in a large mixing bowl.
• Fold in the chopped walnuts if using.
• Pour in a greased 9x5 loaf pan. Bake in preheated oven at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

PRIZE WINNING BANANA NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
• Whip egg whites to stiff peaks and set aside.
• In mixer, cream butter and sugar; add egg yolks, soda, milk, and vanilla.
• Slowly add flour until well mixed.
• Add bananas and mix well.
• Stir in nuts.
• Hand fold in whipped egg whites.
• Fill 2 oiled Med. size loaf pans only half full.
• Or 1 bunt pan with a tube.
• Bake at 300* for 1 hour, or until toothpick comes out clean.
• After 10 minutes turn onto a rack to cool.
• ***Cool completely on wire rack before wrapping***.
• Refrigerate after cooled.

FLOUR'S FAMOUS BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees F. Line the bottom of a loaf pan with parchment paper.
• Sift together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Beat sugar and eggs with a whisk until light and fluffy, about 10 minutes. Drizzle in oil. Add mashed bananas, creme fraiche, and vanilla. Fold in dry ingredients and nuts. Pour into a lined loaf pan and bake for about 45 minutes to 1 hour.

MARY'S BLUE RIBBON BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Sift dry ingredients together.
• 2. In a large bowl cream butter and sugar well.
• 3. Add eggs and beat well until light and fluffy.
• 4. Add vanilla.
• 5. Mix banana pulp with sour cream.
• 6. Add pulp alternately with dry ingredients to butter, sugar, and eggs mixture on slow speed.
• 7. Scrape sides as needed.
• 8. DO NOT OVER BEAT. Beat only until combined. I then stir with a wooden spoon to make sure it is all combined.
• 9. Grease and flour a loaf pan, 9X5X3. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes.
• 10. Test with a cake tester. Do not test in the crack. Test off to the side. It should come out clean, but be careful not to over bake. You want a loaf of moist banana bread.

THE BEST BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9x5 inch pan.
• Cream margarine and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs, then bananas. Add flour and soda, stirring just until combined.
• Pour into prepared pan and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 1 hour (or till toothpick comes out clean). Remove from pan and let cool, store in refrigerator or freeze.

BEST EVER BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. In another bowl, combine the eggs, bananas, oil, buttermilk and vanilla; add to flour mixture, stirring just until combined. Fold in nuts. , Pour into a greased or parchment-lined 9x5-in. loaf pan. If desired, sprinkle with additional walnuts. Bake until a toothpick comes out clean, 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 hours. Cool in pan for 15 minutes before removing to a wire rack.

THE BEST BANANA BUNDT CAKE (DORIE GREENSPAN)

Steps:

• Center a rack in the oven and preheat to 350°F Generously butter a 9- to 10-inch (12 cup) Bundt pan. (If you use a silicone pan there's no need to butter it.) Don't place the pan on a baking sheet - you want the oven's heat to circulate through the Bundt's inner tube.
• Whisk the flour, baking soda and salt together.
• Working with a stand mixer, preferably fitted with a paddle attachment, or with a hand mixer in a large bowl, beat the butter until creamy. Add the sugar and beat at medium speed until pale and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla, then add the eggs one at a time, beating for about 1 minute after each egg goes inches Reduce the mixer speed to low and mix in the bananas. Finally, mix in half the dry ingredients (don't be disturbed when the batter curdles), all the sour cream and then the rest of the flour mixture. Scrape the batter into the pan, rap the pan on the counter to debubble the batter and smooth the top.
• Bake for 65-75 minutes, or until a thin knife inserted deep into the center of the cake comes out clean. Check the cake after about 30 minutes - if it is browning too quickly, cover it loosely with a foil tent. Transfer the cake to a rack and cool for 10 minutes before unmolding onto the rack to cool to room temperature. If you have time, wrap the cooled cake in plastic and allow it to sit overnight before serving - it's even better the next day.
• OPTIONAL LEMONY WHITE ICING: Sift 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar into a bowl and squeeze in enough fresh lemon juice (start with 2 teaspoons and add more by drops) to make an icing thin enough to drizzle down the Bundt's curves.
• MUFFIN OPTION: Halve the recipe. You can add nuts or chocolate chips. Bake 28-32 minutes. Yields 12 muffins.

JANET'S RICH BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• In a large bowl, stir together the melted butter and sugar. Add the eggs and vanilla, mix well. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt, stir into the butter mixture until smooth. Finally, fold in the sour cream, walnuts and bananas. Spread evenly into the prepared pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean. Cool loaf in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.