Baking is difficult for many people. However, the only thing really stopping most people from being successful is a lack of understanding that baking is all about timing and adding flavor. Breads are the easiest things to not fuck up, so lets start there.
The Ingredients:
- 2 large, over ripe bananas
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice (optional, or substitute 1/2 tsp ginger, 1/2 tsp cinnamon and 1/8 tsp ground cloves for the pumpkin pie spice)
- 1/2 cup softened butter
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs beaten
- shredded, sweetened coconut (optional)
The Rundown:
- preheat oven to 350
- grease and flour one 8'x4' or 9'x5' loaf pan
- mix flour, salt, spices, baking powder in bowl
- in seperate, larger bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar
- add vanilla and beaten eggs to butter/ sugar mixture
- cut up and mash bananas into wet mixture
- stir in dry ingredients, mixing until just moist
- pour into loaf pan, sprinkle coconut over top
- bake 60-65 min on center rack, until knife inserted into center comes out clean
Some awesome additions to this bread are chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, chopped nuts, dried cranberriies, raisins
Someone needs to tell this MISS that she needs to revisit this blog. I LIKED IT! It's been almost a year and she needs to the world what she's cooking!!
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