Banana Tea Bread From The New York Times Food

BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan. Using electric mixer, cream butter until smooth and fluffy. Add sugar and cream together 2 minutes more. One at a time, mix in eggs. Mix in bananas until only small lumps remain.
• Stir dry ingredients together and mix into banana mixture just until combined. Pour into prepared pan. If making topping, stir ingredients together and sprinkle over batter.
• Bake about 55 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Let cool in pan 10 minutes, then turn out onto wire rack and let cool completely before wrapping tightly for storage.

BANANA CHOCOLATE-CHIP TEA CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly oil a fluted 10-cup Bundt pan. Using an electric mixer, beat together butter and sugar until very soft, pale and fluffy. Beat in eggs one by one, then vanilla.
• Add mashed bananas; batter may look speckled and grainy. Add flour, baking powder and baking soda. Add buttermilk, and mix until smooth. Fold in chocolate morsels.
• Scrape batter into Bundt pan. Place pan on baking sheet in oven and bake until a tester inserted into cake comes out clean (except for melted chocolate), about 45 minutes.
• Cool cake in pan for about 10 minutes, then unmold onto a serving plate. Allow to cool another 15 minutes, then dust with confectioners' sugar passed through a fine mesh sieve. Serve slightly warm or at room temperature.

BANANA TEA BREAD FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• Cream the shortening or butter, add the sugar gradually and continue working until the batter is light and fluffy.
• Add the eggs and beat well.
• Add the flour mixture alternately with the bananas, a small amount at a time, beating after each addition until smooth.
• Turn into a well-greased bread pan [8-1/2 X 4-1/2 X 3 inches] and bake about one hour and ten minutes.
• NOTE: you can add 1/2 cup coarsely broken nut meats to the batter.

BANANA BREAD, NY TIMES NATURAL FOODS COOKBOOK CARRIE SHERIDAN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Cream the butter and sugar together until very light. Beat in the egg.
• Sift together the whole wheat flour, white flour, baking soda and salt.
• Combine the bananas and buttermilk, stirring just enough to combine well.
• Alternately add dry ingredients and banana mixture to creamed butter/sugar/egg mixture.
• Turn into an oiled 9 by 5 inch loaf pan.
• Bake 50-60 minutes or until done.
• White flour can be substituted for whole wheat flour - also try rice flour, oat flour, coconut flour [add extra liquid if using coconut flour in a 1 to 1 ratio].
• Cool in pan 10 minutes. Remove from the pan and finish cooling on a rack.
• Yields 1 loaf.