Holiday Banana Bread Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-by-5-by-3-inch loaf pan; set aside. In an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat to incorporate.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt. Add to the butter mixture and mix until just combined. Add bananas, sour cream, and vanilla; mix to combine. Stir in nuts and pour into prepared pan.
• Bake until a cake tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour 10 minutes. Let rest in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a rack to cool.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Thoroughly grease a 5 x 9-inch loaf pan.
• Sift the flour, measure, and sift with the baking powder and salt onto a piee of waxed paper. Add the nuts, raisins and candied fruits, and mix until well coated with the flour.
• Cream together the butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time until lthik and pale-lemon colored. Alternate additions of flour and fruit mixture and the mashed bananas, stirring after each addition until well blended. Begin and end with flour mixture.
• Spoon into prepared loaf pan and bake in preheated oven for about 60 minutrs or until bread pulls away from the sides of the pan.
• Let cool about 20 minutes before turning out on a rack to cool well.

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar well.
• beat in eggs, 1 at a time beating well after each addition.
• Add vanilla and stir.
• Measure first amount of flour, add baking soda and baking powder and salt into separate bowl and stir.
• toss walnuts, coconut and cherries with second amount of flour in another bowl.
• Add flour in 4 additions alternately with banana in 3 additions, beginning and ending with flour.
• Add fruit mixture, mix only until blended, do not overmix.
• turn into greased 9x5x3 inch loaf pan.
• Bake in 350F oven for 50-60 minutes or until an inserted wooden pick comes out clean.
• Let stand for 20 minutes.
• Turn out onto a rack to cool.

Steps:

• Grease and flour three loaf pans and preheat oven to 350 F (175 C).
• Cream together butter and sugar.
• Little by little, add in the liqueur and gingerbread syrup. When all the liquid is added, it should resemble mayonnaise.
• Add bananas, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Blend well.
• Taste the mixture at this point; you should be able to taste the banana and gingerbread syrup in equal measure. Adjust to taste ad libitum.
• Blend in eggs.
• Blend in flour.
• Add chopped nuts or chocolate chips, if you so choose.
• Pour into greased and floured pans.
• Bake all three pans at 350 for 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Thoroughly grease a 5 x 9-inch loaf pan.
• Sift the flour, measure, and sift with the baking powder and salt onto a piee of waxed paper. Add the nuts, raisins and candied fruits, and mix until well coated with the flour.
• Cream together the butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time until lthik and pale-lemon colored. Alternate additions of flour and fruit mixture and the mashed bananas, stirring after each addition until well blended. Begin and end with flour mixture.
• Spoon into prepared loaf pan and bake in preheated oven for about 60 minutrs or until bread pulls away from the sides of the pan.
• Let cool about 20 minutes before turning out on a rack to cool well.