Banana Nut Bread Recipe

Banana nut bread with orange peel

This banana nut bread recipe will yield a 5x9x3-inch loaf pan filled with delicious pecan or walnut banana nut bread with an exquisite orange flavour. Ideally make this banana nut bread one day in advance since it will taste even better if you let it rest over night before serving it. This banana nut bread is traditionally served as breakfast bread in southern United States.

Banana nut bread ingredients

• ¼ cup of butter or margarine
• Grease and some flour for the pan
• 2 ¾ cups of all purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon of baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon of baking soda
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• ¾ chopped pecans and/or walnuts
• 2 teaspoons of grated orange peel
• 1 cup of white sugar or brown sugar
• 1 cup of mashed ripe bananas (approximately 2 bananas of medium size)
• 3 medium sized eggs

Banana nut bread preparation

• Preheat the oven to 325° Fahrenheit.
• Take butter or margarine out of the refrigerator and place in room temperature. This will make it easier to blend the butter/margarine with the other ingredients later.
• Grease a 5x9x3-inch loaf pan and flour it.
• Place all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl and sift the dry ingredients together.
• Chop pecans and/or walnuts until you have ¾ cup of chopped nuts. Don’t hesitate to vary this banana nut bread by using other nuts, such as hazel nuts. This banana nut bread recipe goes well with most types of nuts.
• Carefully wash an orange and grate peel until you have 2 teaspoons of grated orange peel.
• Cream butter or margarine together with white sugar or brown sugar until you have a fluffy mix.
• Beat the eggs, one at a time, until they are really fluffy.
• Peel and mash ripe bananas until you have 1 cup of mashed banana. This banana nut bread will typically require at least 2 medium sized bananas.
• Add the eggs and the mashed bananas to the butter/margarine mix and stir until you have created a smooth blend.
• Add the egg-banana-butter blend to the large bowl with the dry ingredients and stir.
• Add the chopped nuts and the grated orange peel to the banana nut bread batter.
• Pour the banana nut bread batter into the greased and floured pan.
• Bake at 325° F. This banana nut bread will usually need around 80 minutes in the oven. The banana nut bread is ready when it looks golden and a tooth pick inserted to the centre of the bread comes out clean.
• Take the banana nut bread out and leave it to cool in the pan for approximately 10 minutes.
• Empty the pan and place the banana nut bread on a wire rack. As mentioned above, this banana nut bread will taste even better if you allow it to rest over night before serving it.

Apple Sauce Banana Bread

Apple sauce banana bread # 1 Recipe

This exquisite apple source banana bread is made from ripe banana, sweet agave nectar, spelt flour, apple cider vinegar and raw unsweetened cocoa beans. It is very important that you use fully ripe bananas. If your bananas are green or yellow, you should let them rest until quite a lot of brown spots and blotches have formed on the peel. A lot of banana starch will then have converted into sugar.

Apple sauce banana bread # 1 – ingredients

• 2 cups of whole spelt flour
• ½ tsp of baking soda
• 1 tsp of vanilla extract
• 1 ½ tsp of cinnamon
• ½ tsp of salt
• 3 ripe bananas
• ½ cup of agave nectar
• ½ cup of unsweetened apple sauce
• ¼ cup of unsweetened soy milk
• 1 tsp of apple cider vinegar
• A few tablespoons of raw unsweetened cocoa beans

Apple sauce banana bread # 1 – preparations

• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Sift flour, baking soda, vanilla, cinnamon and salt together in a large bowl.
• Peel and mash the bananas
• Place the mashed bananas in a separate bowl and add agave nectar, unsweetened apple sauce, unsweetened soy milk and apple cider vinegar. Stir until the ingredients have blended with each other.
• Add the banana mix to the dry ingredients in the large bowl. Stir until they have become mixed.
• Add raw unsweetened cocoa beans to the apple source banana bread batter. How many spoons you decide to add is really up to you, this apple source banana bread recipe is great even without any cocoa beans at all.
• Pour the apple source banana bread batter into a 9×5 loaf pan.
• Place the pan in the oven and bake the apple source banana bread for at least 90 minutes.

Apple sauce banana bread # 2 Recipe

This Apple sauce banana bread recipe can be used for loaves of banana bread as well as for banana muffins. This apple sauce banana bread derives its great taste from a blend of delicious ingredients like cream de tartar, raisins and honey.

Apple sauce banana bread # 2 – ingredients

• 1 cup of all purpose flour
• 1 cup of whole wheat flour
• 1 cup of soy flour
• 2 tsp of baking soda
• 2 tsp of cream de tartar
• 1 tsp of allspice
• 6 eggs
• 2 large, ripe bananas
• 1 cup of honey
• ½ cup of apples sauce
• ¼ cup of concentrated apple juice
• 1 tbsp of vanilla
• 1 apple
• 1 cup of raisins

Apple sauce banana bread # 2 – preparations

• Preheat the oven to 300° Fahrenheit if you want to make an apple sauce banana bread loaf and 350° F if you want to make muffins.
• Place all purpose flour, whole wheat flour, soy flour, baking soda, cream de tartar and allspice in a bowl and mix the ingredients together.
• Separate the egg whites from the egg yolks. It is only that egg whites that will be used in this recipe. Place three egg whites in one cup and three egg whites in another cup.
• Peel and mash the bananas.
• Use another large bowl to mix three egg whites, mashed banana, honey, apple sauce, concentrated apple juice and vanilla together.
• Add the dry ingredients to the banana mix and stir until the batter is fully moistened. Do not over-stir.
• Slightly beat the tree remaining egg whites.
• Use a spatula to stir in these egg whites into the apple sauce banana bread batter.
• Remove the core from the apple. Dice the apple, but leave the peel on.
• Add the apple dices and the raisins to the apple sauce banana bread batter.
• Bake in the oven. If you make muffins, bake them at 350° F for 10-24 minutes. If you make a banana bread loaf, bake at 3o0° F until a toothpick inserted at the centre of the loaf comes out dry.

Spicy Banana Bread

Banana bread with spices

This banana bread combines the taste of ripe banana with distinct cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg flavour. Unlike many other banana breads recipes, banana bread made from this recipe will only need 25-30 minutes in the oven. Serve with your afternoon tea or keep in your backpack as a handy snack. You can also add ice-cream and turn this banana bread into a delicious desert.

Banana bread ingredients

• 4 ounces of butter
• Grease and flour for the pan
• ¾ cup of brown sugar
• Enough bananas to create ¾ cup of mashed banana; typically 2-3 medium sized bananas.
• 1 large egg
• ¼ cup of sour milk
• 1 tsp of vanilla extract
• 1 tsp of ground cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp of ground cloves
• 1/8 tsp of ground nutmeg
• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 ½ tsp of baking powder
• ½ tsp of baking soda
• ½ tsp of salt

Banana bread preparation

• Preheat the oven to 350° Fahrenheit.
• Place 4 ounces of butter in room temperature until it becomes soft and easy to handle.
• Carefully grease an 8 or 9 inch square pan and flour it.
• Cream butter and brown sugar together in a large bowl.
• Peel and mash banana until you have ¾ cup of mashed banana. This will usually require 2-3 medium sized bananas.
• Beat in egg, sour milk, vanilla and banana with the sugar-butter in the large bowl until you have a smooth blend.
• Ground cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon, unless you have purchased variants that are already grounded.
• Place grounded cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon in a separate bowl and add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir until the dry ingredients are combined.
• Gently stir the mix of dry ingredients into the banana bread batter in the large bowl. Only stir until moistened, there is no need to overdo it.
• Pout the banana bread batter into the grease and floured pan.
• Place the pan in the preheated oven and cook until ready. This banana bread will usually be finished after 25-30 minutes. Check if the cake springs back when you tough it gently with your finger.

Banana bread frosting

The banana bread with spices will taste, and look, even better with this matching butter-cream banana frosting.

Banana bread frosting

• ¼ cup of butter or margarine
• Banana, enough to produce ½ cup of mashed banana
• ¼ tsp of white vinegar
• 1/8 tsp of salt
• 3 ½ cup of sifted confectioners sugar

Banana bread frosting preparation

• Place the butter/margarine in room temperature for a while to make it easier to handle.
• Peel and mash banana until you have ½ cup of mashed banana.
• Add white vinegar to the mashed banana.
• Place the soft butter in a bowl and cream it with salt.
• Sift confectioners sugar and measure up 3 ½ cup.
• Add the mashed banana to the butter mix and stir in the confectioner’s sugar.
• Beat the banana bread frosting until it is really fluffy.
• Use the frosting to garnish the banana bread.