Monday, April 14, 2008

Banana bread

This one is from my cousin. I have seen a similar one on verybestbaking.com and on allrecipes.com. I am loading it in its original email form, so I hope you get the jokes....if not I would be happy to explain them to you later......

wicked good banana bread

Ingredients:
5 TBL butter
1/2 C. granulated sugar
1/2 C. firmly packed light brown sugar
1 large egg
2 egg whites (Nate's sister could be Egg White, I never thought of that)
1 tea. vanilla
1 1/2 cup mashed very ripe banana (about 3 bananas)
1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
1 tea baking soda
1/2 tea salt
1/4 tea baking powder
1/2 C. heavy cream
1/3 C. chopped walnuts optional (I haven't tried it this way yet)

Preheat oven to 350. Spray bottom only of 9x5x3 loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray.
Beat butter in large bowl with electric mixer set at medium, until light and fluffy. Add granulated sugar and brown sugar; beat well. Add egg, egg whites and vanilla; beat until well blended. Add mashed banana, beat on high 30 seconds.
Combine flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder in medium bowl. Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternating with cream, ending with flour mixture. Add nuts to batter.
Pour batter evenly into prepared loaf pan. Bake until browned and toothpick inserted near center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 15 min. (I have never had to go that long to watch carefully the first time).
Cool bread in pan on wire rack 10 min. Remove from pan, cool completely on wire rack. (Or if you are like me blister your hands and mouth as you dig out of the pan straight from the oven and then gulp down some milk.) Also suggested that once loaf cools completely, wrap in plastic wrap over night and let the flavors develope.

1 comment:

AMPM said...

Yes, thank you for the applause, the banana bread is good.