Community Pick
Perfectly Spiced Banana Bread
photo by Anonymous
- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
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1 loaf
- Serves:
- 8
ingredients
- 1 3⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ginger, ground
- 1⁄4 teaspoon allspice, ground
- 1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg, grated
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest (optional)
- 1⁄4 cup almonds, ground (optional)
- 1⁄2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1⁄2 cups ripe bananas, mashed (4 medium)
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Grease 9 x 5 inch loaf pan.
- Sift flour,baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, allspice and nutmeg together in bowl.
- Add lemon zest and almonds.
- Stir until combined.
- Set aside. Beat butter in large mixing bowl until soft and creamy.
- Beat in sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs and beat until thoroughly blended.
- Beat in flour mixture alternately with bananas until mixture is well blended.
- Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake in center of oven 1 hour to 1 hour 5 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan on wire rack 10 minutes.
- Invert from pan and cool completely on rack.
- Variation: Banana-walnut or -pecan bread: Omit almonds.
- Add 3/4 cup coarsely chopped walnuts or pecans with bananas.
Reviews
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Awesome! I used some VERY RIPE (black) bananas that had been in my freezer and was happy with how well it turned out. I make it in 2 smaller loaf pans and baked for about 40 minutes and plan and giving 1 to the new neighbor. I used 1/4 tsp. of lemon peel (from my spice rack) since I didn't have any fresh lemons on hand. Like others, I also added about a tsp. of vanilla, just because :-) Definitely a keeper and I will make it again.
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I forgot to butter the pan, lol, but for the giant lump of yumminess extracted onto the plate, 5 stars. I added cinnamon, omitted the lemon zest, and used a combination of brown sugar splenda/splenda/regular sugar, and half wheat flour half white. Oh, and I also added 1/4 tsp almond extract (didn't actually have nuts on hand). I don't even like banana bread usually, but this is ammaaazzzing, and I can not stop eating it.
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Tweaks
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I liked the flavours of this recipe, but this was WAY too dry. I'd made muffins instead of bread, and I didn't have allspice. I also only used 3 bananas. They were crunchy on the outside and very brown. I baked them for an hour like the recipe suggested and next time I'll bake them for a shorter amount of time.
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Very Good!! My first time making banana bread. I added ginger and cinnamon powder. I did not have any allspice or nutmeg with me. And also added a lot of almond meal, walnuts and lemon zest. I also did not have any baking soda, so I added 2-1/2 tsp baking powder instead of 2 tsp. So fluffy and yummy, and great with butter. Thank you for posting.
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