i wanted to save this for later, but im too excited! last night i made banana bread, and it turned out SOOO good!!! i think its my favorite thing ive made so far! maybe im getting ahead of myself.... but this might be my "something"!! :D (to get that, youd have to read my very first blog entry lol)
so i attempted to make this bread a couple times.. buying a few too many bananas, waiting for them to become "very ripe" but then the first couple times i ended up throwing them out bc i waited too long and they just became "very gross" hah. but this time i waited just enough! (there was still a little yellow at the top and bottom of the bananas, but the middles were all spotted with brown.)
i bought apple sauce for the recipe and realized it was the first time id ever bought apple sauce.. its just not something my sister an i have ever liked to snack on as kids. and i dont think my mom has ever used it in recipes before.. i think its kind of cool to buy something for the first time.. that you know youll use forever.. bc then when you have kids, and they're buying it for their first time, they'll be like "oh get this one, its the one my mom gets" :) i think thats pretty awesome. to be able to set traditions (no matter how small) :) haha maybe im a little cheesy lol i like it.
anyway! here we go with the recipe. the magical ingredients are:
3/4 stick of butter (i used unsalted this time- but only bc it was the only one i had)
1 cup of sugar
2 large eggs
3 very ripe bananas
1/2 cup of unsweetened apple sauce (smooth, not chunky)
almost 1 tsp vanilla extract (i tend to skimp on the vanilla bc i think it takes over)
1 tsp cinnamon (make it a full tsp)
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
2 1/4 cups of flour
(also some people like walnuts in their banana bread... i tend to eat around them lol so now that i have control, im ditching the walnuts!)
preheat your oven to 300 degrees to begin with :)
melt down your butter and add it to your sugar. whisk together here very well! add your eggs, one at a time. whisk well again.
then in a separate bowl, mash your peeled very-ripe-bananas with a big fork. try to get them as smooth as possible! do all the mashing in this bowl, bc once you transfer the banana's to the other bowl, it will be harder to find lumps and mash them without making a mess. (i JUST made this mistake, and it was quite annoying.) so then once your bananas are all mashed up, add your apple sauce! mix them together well. the apple sauce makes the cake really moist! other recipes call for sour cream, which also makes cakes super moist... but i figured with banana bread, i should try something less fattening than sour cream.
then take your banana/apple sauce mixture, and pour it in with your butter/sugar/egg mix. whisk together. to this bowl, add your vanilla and cinnamon. then pour in your flour, salt and baking sodas/powders. so ideally, you should mix your flour, salt and baking powders and baking soda together separately.. and THEN pour it into the wet mixture. however, im lazy so i just dump everything in together and it seems to --- wait... maybe THATS why i have so much trouble with my baking. :/ anyway.. whatever, this one turned out great!
so now youve mixed all your ingredients together. pour your batter into your pan (i used a meatloaf pan... it was the size i wanted, so i got one of those disposable ones from Publix for like 2 bucks) dont forget to grease your pan, and then pour in your batter. then stick it in the oven for at least an hour! after an hour, i would check on it every 10 minutes until my baking-stick came out of my banana bread all clean. for my oven, this time, it took about an hour and a half. a bit long :/ but worth it!!
its so good!! im obsessed! its so soft and sweet and yum!! if you try this recipe out, let me know :) i cant wait to hear how much other people like it too!! <3
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