Best-Ever Banana Bread
Adapted from Favorite Family Meals by Annabel Karmel
Yields 2 loaves
1/4 c butter
1/2 c unsweetened applesauce
1 c brown sugar
1 egg
1 lb bananas, mashed (about 3 bananas)
3 T plain yogurt (I use heaping tablespoons)
1 t pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 c all-purpose flour
1 t baking soda
1 t ground cinnamon
1/4 t salt (more than half of the time I omit this)
3/4 c raisins (we love them but they are certainly optional)
- Preheat the oven to 350F and grease and line two loaf pans.
- Beat the butter and sugar together until creamy, then add the egg and continue to beat until smooth. I use the paddle attachment on my mixer for this.
- Add the bananas, yogurt and vanilla. I don't pre-mash my bananas but rather let my mixer do all of the work.
- Stir together, preferably using a whisk, the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt and add to banana mixture in at least two additions, mixing well in between each. Rather than sift the dry ingredients together I stir them with a whisk per Martha Stewart. (Whom I love. But more about that another day.)
- Mix in the raisins.
- Bake for about 1 hour rotating the pans after 30 min. The loaves shouldn't be jiggly and a sharp knife or toothpick should come out clean when inserted in the centre of the loaves.
The original recipe says that it makes 1 loaf and yields 8 slices. That's one crazy large loaf with very generous slices. I make two loaves and get about 14 1.5cm slices per loaf.
Note about the loaf pans: I use silicone loaf pans that I sit inside disposable aluminum loaf pans. I have found that I have to sit the silicone pan inside something or else one of the sides gives and I have banana bread batter all over the bottom of my oven. Trust me when I tell you that while this smells delicious, it's a real pain to clean up. Oh, and lest you think I'm not environmentally friendly, I keep reusing the same disposable pans.
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