The Best Banana Bread Ever!

The Best Banana Bread Ever!

The Best Banana Bread Ever!

I like Banana Bread.  Like I really like it.  

I found a recipe in one of my mom’s old cookbooks that turned out to be just amazing, but I still felt like it could be tweaked a bit.  (I’m a tweaker; it’s what I do….) The Best Banana Bread Ever!

My stipulations for the ideal banana bread are the following:

  – It has to be moist
  – It has to have a great banana-y flavour
  – Chocolate chips are a must!! (unless I’m baking for my brother, who’s allergic to chocolate)

After over a year of tweaking, I think I’ve finally come up with the best Banana Bread ever!

And just to make you drool, here’s a picture 🙂

The Best Banana Bread Ever! I like Banana Bread.  Like I really like it.  

 

(I’m learning how to take pictures of food, so the photo totally does not do it justice…)

Ok, so the good stuff….here’s the recipe!!  (This makes 3 loaves…we go through one loaf in no time, and hubby likes to take baking to work 🙂 )

The Best Banana Bread Ever!

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4 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar
6 teaspoons baking powder
3 teaspoons salt
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 Tablespoon cinnamon
1 Tablespoon cocoa
1/4 cup (ish) of ground flax seed

More Ingredients:

5 cups mashed bananas (I ‘coarsely’ mash them, so I have chunks of banana in the bread)
1 cup applesauce
1 cup molasses
2 mashed bananas (instead of eggs)
1 teaspoon vanilla
chocolate chips (amount to be determined by baker)
dried cranberries (ditto)

Preparation:

Put the flour and sugar in a large bowl.  Put all of the other dry ingredients into a cup or bowl and mash out any lumps.  Mix all dry ingredients together.  Add bananas, and mix.  Add rest of ingredients.  Mix thoroughly and divide evenly into 3 greased loaf pans.  Cook at 350F for 60 – 70 minutes.  Cut into it when you can’t wait a moment longer 🙂

A couple of notes:

As with any recipe, this is a guideline and can be tweaked according to the baker’s taste.  I discovered that adding the cinnamon and cocoa really round out the flavour and give it amazing depth.  The flax seed gives it just a hint of nutty taste, plus it’s also good for you (that’s always a bonus, right?). 

Try it, try it!!! 

After over a year of tweaking, I think I’ve finally come up with the best Banana Bread ever!

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