Daughters Banana Bread Food

MOTHER'S BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Grease an 8x4 inch loaf pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a large mixing bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar. Add butter, eggs, nuts, and mashed banana. Beat until well blended.
• Pour batter into prepared pan and bake about 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean.

CHEF JOHN'S BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Coat a 9x4-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
• Whisk flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda together in a bowl.
• Beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Add mashed bananas and beat until combined. Beat eggs into the butter mixture one at a time, fully blending each egg before adding the next. Stir vanilla extract and milk into the mixture.
• Stir chopped walnuts, chocolate chips, and flour mixture into banana mixture until just incorporated.
• Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan. Tap pan on the counter to release any air pockets.
• Bake in preheated oven for about 1 hour 10 minutes, or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
• Let the bread rest in the pan for 15-20 minutes; remove from pan, slice, and serve.

HEALTHY, KID-FRIENDLY BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Coat an 11x7-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
• Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl.
• Whisk together applesauce and maple syrup in a large bowl. Add eggs and whisk until well blended. Add bananas, yogurt, and milk; mix until combined but still lumpy. Whisk in vanilla and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Fold flour mixture slowly into banana mixture with a large wooden spoon until fully combined. Pour batter into the prepared baking dish and sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean, 50 to 55 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes on a wire rack. Slice and serve.

BEST BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Remove odd pots and pans from oven.
• Preheat oven to 350º / 180º.
• Cream together butter and sugar.
• Add eggs and crushed bananas.
• Combine well.
• Sift together flour, soda and salt. Add to creamed mixture. Add vanilla.
• Mix just until combined. Do not overmix.
• Pour into greased and floured loaf pan.
• Bake at 350º / 180º for 55 minutes.
• Keeps well, refrigerated.

DAUGHTER'S BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Make sure all the ingredients are at room temperature.
• Whisk together the flour, salt, soda, and powder; set aside.
• In a large bowl beat on high speed for 2-3 minutes the butter, and sugar.
• Beat in the flour mixture till blended and is the consistency of brown sugar.
• Gradually beat in the eggs.
• Fold in the bananas and nuts till combined.
• Put into a greased and floured bread pan and bake for 50-60 minutes or until bread tests done.
• Cool pan on rack for 5-10 minutes.
• Take out and cool on rack.

AUNT IDA-MAE PARKER'S DAUGHTER GINA'S BANANA NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Mix shortening and sugar.
• Add eggs and beat well until creamed.
• Mix flour, baking soda, salt, and baking powder together.
• Alternate adding dry ingredients, mashed bananas, and walnuts until well mixed.
• Pour batter into well greased 9" x 5" loaf pan and bake 50 minutes.

KID-APPROVED BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a loaf pan.
• Beat brown sugar and butter together using an electric mixer in a mixing bowl until creamy. Add egg and beat on medium-high speed until mixture is light and fluffy, 1 to 2 minutes. Mash bananas using a fork and add to mixture, beating just until mixture is fairly smooth (some lumps are okay).
• Combine all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a separate bowl. Blend into banana mixture until just combined. Fold in chocolate chips. Pour into the prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Remove from the oven and let cool 5 minutes; turn pan over to release loaf and let cool further on a wire rack. Tastes best warm.

DAUGHTER'S A-TO-Z BREAD

Steps:

• Whisk the sugar, oil, applesauce and eggs in a large bowl. Stir in A to Z ingredients of your choice and vanilla. Combine the all-purpose and whole wheat flours, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt; stir into liquid ingredients just until moistened. Stir in nuts. Pour into two greased 8x4-in. loaf pans., Bake at 325° for 50-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

BABY FOOD BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Mix together sugar and butter in a microwaveable dish and cook on HIGH heat just long enough for it to soften up- maybe 30 seconds, but not to melt it completely.
• Remove and stir to combine.
• Mix together baby food, over-ripe bananas, lime juice, eggs,vanilla,extract, and buttermilk.
• Mix in the butter mixture gradually, so as not to cook the eggs.
• It will look a little curdly from the lime juice- this is normal and will go away upon baking.
• Combine all dry ingredients together in a large bowl, then add the wet mixture and stir with a wooden spoon just enough to combine the ingredients and moisten them- pressing out any big lumps with your spoon (don't overmix).
• Pour into a greased and floured loaf pan (9x5") and bake in a preheated oven at 350 F (180 C) for about an hour or until a toothpick tests clean.
• Let cool completely before serving or it will fall apart.