Banana Orange Nutmeg Bread Recipes

BANANA/ORANGE BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Mix all the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
• Add all wet ingredients in a blender and mix for 15 seconds.
• Add the blended ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well.
• Pour mixture into a well-greased bread pan and place on middle rack in preheated oven.
• Bake for approximately 45 minutes.
• Insert toothpick to test for doneness (it should come out clean).
• Cover the loaf with foil if it is starting to brown too quickly on top.
• Let cool for 30 minutes and then enjoy.

BANANA ORANGE BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, oil, and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add mashed bananas and mix well.
• Add salt, vanilla, orange juice and zest and mix until well combined.
• Add eggs, one at a time, mixing after each addition.
• Mix in baking soda and baking powder.
• Mix on low, gradually adding flour until combined.
• Divide batter evenly between two 8.5"x4.5" loaf pans. Bake 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Allow to cool 15 minutes before removing from pans. Let cool completely before glazing.
• Whisk together powdered sugar and orange juice until it reaches a glue like consistency. Add more juice if too thick, or more sugar if too runny. Drizzle over cooled loaves. Add orange zest to tops, if desired.

BANANA BREAD WITH WALNUTS AND ORANGE ZEST

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Butter and flour a 9X5 loaf pan.
• In a small bowl using a fork, mash the bananas. You should have 11/3 cups. In a separate bowl, stir together the all purpose flour, whole-wheat flour, baking powder baking soda, salt, nutmeg, orange zest and nuts, set aside.
• In a large bowl, whisk the eggs until blended. Stir the brown sugar, butter, and milk. Add the dry ingredients in 3 batches alternatively with the mashed bananas in 2 batches, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients, just until moistened. Be careful not to overmix!
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan smoothing the top with a rubber spatula. Bake for 55-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. If the top begins to brown too much, cover with a sheet of aluminum foil the last 15 minutes of baking.
• Transfer to a wire rack and let cool in the pan for 5 minutes. Turn out into wire rack and let cool completely, before slicing.

ORANGE BANANA NUT BREAD

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, combine the sugar, oil and eggs; mix well.
• Stir in bananas and orange juice.
• Combine the dry ingredients; add to banana mixture, beating just until moistened.
• Stir in walnuts.
• Pour into two greased 8-in. x 4-in. x 2-in. loaf pans.
• Bake at 325° for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
• Cool for 10 minutes; remove from pans to a wire rack to cool completely.

BANANA ORANGE NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Lightly grease and flour one 9x5x3" loaf pan.
• Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Stir in chopped nuts, and dried cranberries. Set aside.
• Cream shortening, add sugar, beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Add mashed banana and orange juice.
• Slowly beat the set aside dry ingredients into creamed mixture. Mix well.
• Pour into prepared loaf pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 70-75 minutes.
• Cool 25-30 minutes before removing from pan.