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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

[Ultimate Banana Bread] The Easiest Banana bread


Before I tasted the banana bread my friend made a few years ago
I didn't even like it. It must be something to do with the name of the cake.
The name "banana bread" which means a bread made with banana, was not appealing at all to me at least.

Don't get me wrong, I like both bread and cake, 
but just banana seems right only to be associated with a cake.


Then, one day, my friend P baked a loaf of banana bread, which I couldn't turn down.


In reality, banana bread is so much a cake!
And, strangely(?), I like it since then and there.
It was sweet, but excessively: smell of the fresh baked banana bread was hard to explain.
Anyway,
you must try this.

P gave me all the ingredients without directions.
But, actually you don't need much instructions to make a loaf of banana bread.
Because it's really easy to make one!
Once you have all the ingredients needed, you are already almost guaranteed to have a loaf of decent banana bread in 60 minutes.


If you want to shorten baking time, you can bake them in muffin tin too.

Here Goes Colleen's ultimate banana bread recipe:

Ingredients
*** Dry ingredients ***
1+1/4C all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
a pinch of salt
3/4C sugar

*** Wet ingredients ***
3 over ripe bananas
1ts vanilla extract
1/3C butter (room temperature)
1 large egg

How to make
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
 
2. In a big mixing bowl, combine all the dry ingredients except sugar!
3. mash bananas in a bowl and put aside.
4. cream butter & sugar
5. Stir in eggs and vanilla until well blended.
6. stir in mashed bananas until well blended.


7. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten.
8. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan,
Or in a muffin tin
9. Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean.
If  you are baking in muffin tins, do bake for only 1/2 hour before you check if it's already baked.
10. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack. 
Then, it's (almost) ready to be eaten.
I usually bake in the night before and eat cakes as my breakfast.
Believe me, I have to gather all my patience not to eat it!
Your kitchen is to be filled with banana bread.

Sliced banana bread~

Inside of the muffin looks like this.

It doesn't look very pretty, but it is very moist.
  
 It's my easiest fool-proof banana bread recipe :)

Enjoy!

Ultimate Banana Bread

3 comments:

  1. I made Boeuf Bourguignon for lunch today with your recipe posted on your previous blog. It was delicious. Thanks:)I used to go visit your previous blog time to time and got useful tips about cooking. And I'm happy to see more postings here in future. Congratulations on new start.

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  2. Hi Ryan,

    thanks for your compliments. :)
    It is surprising to see a visitor who has known me from my previous blog.
    I'm glad my cooking tips were somewhat useful.:)

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  3. I searched some recipies and found this blog, then I realized i read this recipe few years ago! I am so glad to "find" this blog by chance, and still thanks to share your wonderful recipe with us. I added to "favorite" here, so I will expect see your recipe again! (and i was really moved when i baked this banana bread cause it was totally same flavour what i missed!)

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