Mom's Banana Bread or Muffins
"Old fashioned banana bread, excellent use of your over-ripe bananas! Same recipe makes either a loaf or 12 muffins. Walnuts are optional, we usually don't add them."
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- Ready In:
- 32mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
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12 muffins
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 cup shortening
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup mashed banana
- 3 tablespoons buttermilk or 3 tablespoons sour milk
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups flour
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 4 ounces walnuts, chopped
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Either grease and flour a 9" X 5" loaf pan or place 12 cupcake papers in a muffin pan.
- Cream sugar and shortening, beat in eggs then bananas.
- Combine baking soda with milk, stir into creamed mixture.
- Sift flour with salt and spices; add a little at a time to the creamed mixture, beating well after each addition.
- Stir in nuts; pour into prepared pan.
- For muffins, bake for 22 minutes at 350 degrees, or until knife in center comes out clean.
- For loaf, bake for 35 minutes at 350 degrees, then cover with aluminum foil and continue to bake for 25 additional minutes or until knife in center comes out clean.
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Reviews
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Wonderful banana bread! What made this great for me is the spices in it, different from the banana bread recipes I've made before. I baked mine in mini-loaf pans, for about 45 minutes, and got 4 small loaves. Moist and flavorful - thanks for sharing the recipe! -
The spices give a great taste to these banana muffins. I omitted the nuts so I can send some muffins to my son at school. I used only 1/2 cup of sugar which was perfect. Thanks laurenpie :) Made for PAC Spring 2013 -
Great banana bread. I really loved the spices. The bread was nice and moist with a crispier crust. I might try it with butter instead of the shortening to see if it would still work well. Thank you! Made for I Recommend tag in the Cooking Tag Game forum -
I love the crust on this bread, so much so that I have to serve sliced on a platter...so no one notices the ends are gone :)
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Great banana bread. I really loved the spices. The bread was nice and moist with a crispier crust. I might try it with butter instead of the shortening to see if it would still work well. Thank you! Made for I Recommend tag in the Cooking Tag Game forum
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
laurenpie
Cottage Grove, Oregon
Love to sing, swim, kayak and bike! I enjoy making/eating homemade.
