How You Can Make Banana Bread

We all know banana bread - it is that yummy, moist sweetbread that we make out of those nasty old black over-ripe bananas. “Don’t throw these bananas away!” - turn them into banana bread instead. 

First Banan Bread Ever?

Banana bread recipes started appearing in cookbooks around 1930s. Banana bread is not an actual bread mainly because you use baking soda instead of yeast. The mixture does not form dough to be kneaded and then set aside to rise, just a thick batter. Since it is so easy to make it is more and more popular. It is the most common in cafes in Australia where it is served at breakfast. 

There are several distinct variations of this uncomplicated recipe, like healthy banana bread, or this banan bread recipe etc... Here is a classic version of homemade banana bread but before we start maybe one more thing about bananas - they are actually pretty good for you and your health. You can check out their nutritional value here.

Homemade Banana Bread Ingredients 

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups of flour
• 2 ripe bananas
• 1 tablespoon buttermilk

Directions 

1. Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees.

2. Place peeled bananas in a small bowl and mash them with a fork. Stir in buttermilk and set this aside.

3. In a larger bowl mix together the butter and sugars till they are fluffy.

4. Add the egg and beat until nicely blended.

5. Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon into a bowl.

6. Alternate adding the dry ingredients plus the banana mixture for the butter and sugar inside the mixing bowl. Start with the dry ingredients and end with the dry components and generally beat completely.

7. Coat a 9” by 5” loaf pan with cooking spray. Spoon the batter into the pan and spread it out evenly.

8. Bake for 45 to 60 minutes. The bread is done when is dark golden brown. Insert a toothpick directly in to the middle and if it comes out clean, the bread is done.

To make this banana bread recipe a bit different you can also add some other fruits to the recipe. the main difference is that you must always mash the bananas but leave other fruits in pieces and spread them out evenly throughout the batter. Fruits that you can use are for instance blueberries, peaches cut to pieces, cherries and all sorts of other fruits. Just experiment. You can also use dry fruits if you like.

That's it - enjoy!

 

How To Make Pumpkin Bread

It's been a while since ther was a cool recipe posted here so here we go - pumpkin bread! It's not even close to pumpkin season...actually there are some leftover hard dried up pumpkins still lying around but they are not that good for pumpkin bread. But you can used canned pumpkin puree. Or you can try and make banana bread. Banana bread is pretty similar to pumpkin bread.

Anyway... still, I felt like posting this pumpkin bread recipe so here it goes:)

Pumpkin Breat Ingredients

• 900 grams all - purpose flour
• 750 grams white sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1/2 tea spoons salt
• 1 tea spoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teas poon ground cinnamon
• 500 grams solid pack pumpkin puree
• 150 ml water
• 250 ml vegetable oil
• 4 eggs
• 120 grams chopped walnuts (optional)

Instructions

1. Grease and flour three loaf pans. You can use small, medium or large ones. The presented calculation is going to need two large loaf pans and three medium ones. Now you can pre heat oven up to 350 degrees F (or 175 degrees C).
2. Measure the flour, the sugar, the baking soda, the salt, and the spices into a large bowl. Be careful to be large enough to include all of the ingredients needed for the pumpkin bread. Stir to blend. Add the pumpkin, the water, the vegetable oil, the eggs, and the nuts. Beat until well combined. Pour batter into prepared pans.
3. Bake for approximately 1 hour.

So good and moist. It is very easy and unique delicious. You can put everything in a bowl at once and to mixe the ingredients of the pumpkin bread. So this recipe is highly recommendable for beginners at the kitchen. The pumpkin bread could be a bit too sweet for  your tastes, so the suggest is making it with a little less sugar, then using half brown sugar, and half white. A little vanillia would also work well. The extra spice is going to give it wonderful flavor.  It is a pretty good recipe, and can be made with canned or fresh pumpkin. 120 grams raisins may be substituted for the nuts (the equal quantity). You would have never had a more moisty piece of pumpkin bread in your life and every body is going to want me to make them one.

The nutrition information for pumpkin bread

• calories 275,
• total fat - 11.9 grams,
• cholesterol 35 milligrams,
• sodium, 312 mg, 
• total carbs 40.1 grams,
• dietary fiber 1.3 grams,
• protein 3.4 grams. 

If you want something more healthy then try this healthy pumpkin bread recipe. It's a cool way to make you pumpkin bread better for you...