Banana Bread Ny Times Natural Foods Cookbook Carrie Sheridan Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan. Using electric mixer, cream butter until smooth and fluffy. Add sugar and cream together 2 minutes more. One at a time, mix in eggs. Mix in bananas until only small lumps remain.
• Stir dry ingredients together and mix into banana mixture just until combined. Pour into prepared pan. If making topping, stir ingredients together and sprinkle over batter.
• Bake about 55 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Let cool in pan 10 minutes, then turn out onto wire rack and let cool completely before wrapping tightly for storage.

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with nonstick spray.
• In a large bowl, mash the bananas coarsely using a fork. They should be fully broken apart, but it's OK if some larger lumpy pieces remain. Whisk in the melted butter, yogurt, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla until well combined.
• In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda and salt to combine. Add the flour mixture to the banana mixture and stir to combine using a silicone spatula or wooden spoon. Scrape the sides and base of the bowl well to make sure the mixture is uniformly combined.
• Gently stir in the chocolate until combined, then pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and spread into an even layer. If using, sprinkle the surface generously with coarse sugar.
• Transfer the pan to the oven and bake until the edges of the loaf start to pull away from the edge of the pan, and a tester inserted into the center comes out with just a few moist crumbs attached, 60 to 75 minutes. If the top of the loaf is becoming too dark before it's baked through, loosely cover with foil.
• Transfer from the oven to a cooling rack and run a thin knife around the edge of the banana bread to separate it from the pan. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes before unmolding and cooling completely.

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9- by 5-inch loaf pan.
• Mix together the dry ingredients. With a hand mixer, a whisk, or in the food processor, cream the butter and beat in the eggs and bananas. Stir this mixture into the dry ingredients; stir just enough to combine (it's okay if there are lumps). Gently stir in the vanilla, nuts, and coconut.
• Pour the batter into the loaf pan and bake for 45 to 60 minutes, until nicely browned. A toothpick inserted into the center of the bread will come out fairly clean when it is done, but because of the bananas this bread will remain moister than most. Do not overcook. Cool on a rack for 15 minutes before removing from the pan.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Cream the butter and sugar together until very light. Beat in the egg.
• Sift together the whole wheat flour, white flour, baking soda and salt.
• Combine the bananas and buttermilk, stirring just enough to combine well.
• Alternately add dry ingredients and banana mixture to creamed butter/sugar/egg mixture.
• Turn into an oiled 9 by 5 inch loaf pan.
• Bake 50-60 minutes or until done.
• White flour can be substituted for whole wheat flour - also try rice flour, oat flour, coconut flour [add extra liquid if using coconut flour in a 1 to 1 ratio].
• Cool in pan 10 minutes. Remove from the pan and finish cooling on a rack.
• Yields 1 loaf.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9-inch-by-5-inch loaf pan with the vegetable oil. In a large bowl, combine the mashed bananas, vanilla, egg and honey until well mixed. In another bowl, stir the flour and baking powder together.
• Very lightly stir the flour mixture into the banana mixture. Add the margarine and stir just until combined; do not overmix. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 45 minutes to 1 hour.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with oil.
• Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon.
• Whisk together applesauce, sugar, egg whites, bananas and vanilla. Add flour mixture all at once and stir gently to blend. Do not overbeat.
• Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and bake 45 to 50 minutes or until a knife inserted in center comes out clean. Cool bread completely before slicing.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• Cream the shortening or butter, add the sugar gradually and continue working until the batter is light and fluffy.
• Add the eggs and beat well.
• Add the flour mixture alternately with the bananas, a small amount at a time, beating after each addition until smooth.
• Turn into a well-greased bread pan [8-1/2 X 4-1/2 X 3 inches] and bake about one hour and ten minutes.
• NOTE: you can add 1/2 cup coarsely broken nut meats to the batter.