Bananas
You’re right. It’s banana and cranberry, baked together into a festive bread. Why not combine the proven winner known as Banana Nut Bread with cranberries? (Unless you don’t like cranberries- that would be a good reason not to.) Since most people equate cranberries with holidays, take the leap and throw them into the banana […]
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I have a thing for banana bread. I grew up with many a slice of the margarine-smeared, Mom-made Fannie Farmer banana bread packed into my lunch at school. (Although I loved banana bread, let’s tell it like it is: I’d have taken the strawberry Fruit Rollup at recess any day. Or the mass-produced but still crave-worthy Vachon Flaky […]
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Muffins… bread… they are interchangeable, so don’t judge me because the photo screams “bread” while the title reads “muffin”.
Don’t you always have a couple of browning bananas hanging around on the counter, too spotty to eat? Hold onto them and let them get more black than yellow, then smoosh them up into this muffin/bread recipe (which can be made in a jiffy). Next thing you know, you have a muffin that’s full of berrylicious antioxidants and your counter is cleared of ugly, ripening fruit.
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This is the legit recipe- not to be confused with the Strawboffee Pie, that’s a twist on the banana classic (swapping strawberries for the bananas, if you must). Banoffee Pie is just plain right. Cookie crumb crust, layer of toffee, layer of bananas, then blob of whipped cream (and a sprinkling of chocolate on top […]
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It’s banana-ey, and it’s fluffy. And it’s topped with a glob of cream cheese frosting. Come on, doesn’t this cake have your name written all over it?
When you have a bunch of ripe bananas (don’t waste your time with bananas that are more yellow than black, my friends— when I made this cake, the bananas looked burned to a crisp), you must make this cake or cupcakes (or if you’re not in the mood for cream cheese icing [really?], consider making Banana Nut Bread instead).
Back to the cake. When to do a cake and when to do cupcakes? It’s one of life’s challenging questions, I know. A cake takes longer, which I always find annoying (waiting for something to finish in the oven- come on), and yet it’s easier to spread the frosting over. (There’s always pressure for frosted cupcakes to look so pretty, and what if you’re just not that type?) Cupcakes are more portable, though, so if you’re serving them at the office for a birthday thing, you can pop them into a tin and not have to take your massive cake transporter-container-minivan. Everyone finds cupcakes charming, so that’s always a win, but cake is also kind of homey when you’re a casual dinner party and you get to cut slices right at the table- like you’re sharing one big dish, without the group saliva. I’m no closer to an answer about what’s better, as it’s usually a game time decision for me. (In this case, I just wanted to use my cute new cupcake holders I ordered online. Sometimes it’s that simple.)
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These are very healthy, so don’t ever say that “More Sweets, Please” is all about sinful, sweet, rich, decadent, unhealthy, over the top desserts. (I would actually consider that to be a real compliment.) No, these cookies are the cousins of the Healthy Almond Butter & Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies, and they upped the fiber […]
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I grew up loving banana bread, and had no idea the Fannie Farmer Cookbook recipe my Mom used was a virtually fat-free one until finding the recipe online last year. (I have distinct memories of spreading gratuitous amounts of margarine on the bread– negating the whole fat-free thing, of course. Not that I cared about fat when I was nine years old.) (And yes, we used margarine. But my Mom also smoked a pack a day when she was pregnant and so we can chalk that and the margarine thing up to “they didn’t know better back then”.)
I stumbled upon my own Official Favorite Banana Bread Recipe around 1999 and have been almost faithful to it ever since. (I found a fluffy chocolate banana muffin recipe that caused my eye to wander last year, but it was a short-lived affair.)
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This one’s a winner.
If you like your banana bread dense and bananaey and amazing, then get yourself ripening a bunch of bananas pronto. The riper the banana, the better the bread. Truer words have never been spoken.
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