Bourbon Banana Bread Recipes

SLOW-COOKER BOURBON BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Grease bottom only of 3 1/2- to 4-quart round slow cooker with shortening or cooking spray. Sprinkle lightly with 2 teaspoons of the Bisquick mix.
• In large bowl, stir bananas, granulated sugar, 1/3 cup melted butter, 2 tablespoons bourbon, the vanilla and eggs until well blended. Stir in remaining Bisquick mix, the cinnamon, chocolate chips and 1/2 cup of the pecans until well blended. Pour into slow cooker.
• Cover; cook on High heat setting 1 hour 30 minutes to 2 hours or until toothpick inserted in center of loaf comes out clean. Turn off slow cooker; uncover, and remove ceramic base from cooker to cooling rack. Let cool 15 minutes.
• Loosen edge of bread with thin metal spatula. Remove bread from slow cooker to cooling rack. Cool 1 hour.
• In small bowl, mix glaze ingredients until smooth and consistency of thick syrup. Drizzle over top of bread. Sprinkle evenly with remaining 1/4 cup pecans.

BOURBON BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth and creamy.
• Add in the flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Mix until combined.
• Add in the eggs, bananas, and bourbon.
• Pour batter into greased/prepared loaf pan (or 3 mini loaf pans).
• Place in preheated oven (350 degrees) and bake for about 35 minutes if mini loaves, 55-60 minutes if a large loaf pan, 25 minutes if making muffins.
• Once baked, remove and allow to cool slightly before removing from pan and serving! Enjoy!

CARAMEL BANANA BOURBON BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Caramelize walnuts.
• Take the walnuts and put them in a large skillet and toast on med heat till they brown a little. Then add 2 tablespoons of butter,stirring to coat nuts. Then add 1/2 cup brown sugar and cocoa powder stirring again to caramelize sugar and coat nuts. Then spread nuts over cookie sheet with wax paper and cool.
• Bread pudding: Preheat oven to 200°F.
• Cube bread into equal size cubes and spread onto cookie sheet and bake until dry and crisp(not brown) about 10-15 minutes then bump up temperature to 350°F Then peel and cut bananas in bite size pieces and sauté in large non-stick pan with 2 tablespoons butter and 1/2 cup brown sugar and 2 tablespoons bourbon till bananas are well caramelized and bourbon cooked off. Put 3 cups heavy cream in sauce pan with vanilla bean (split and scraped) and simmer over medium heat till bubbles form around rim of pan (do not boil) then remove from heat.
• Whisk the eggs together with the 1/2 cup sugar until it is well incorporated. Then temper the egg with the warm cream adding small amounts at first until the egg and cream come together and egg warms up,then remaining cream can be added and vanilla bean removed finishing the custard. Now take dried cubes of bread add to custard and allow them to soak up most of custard.
• Now take the custard soaked bread, caramelized nuts, and bananas and layer them into large casserole dish( bread then bananas then nuts, repeat) Then put into water bath. Put into preheated oven for about 30-45 minutes till custard looks set wiggles as one mass not sloshy. You can add a little brown sugar to top to crisp and caramelize it.
• Bourbon Brown Sugar Carmel Sauce: Add remaining brown sugar, butter and bourbon to a large non-stick skillet and allow to cook for 10-15 minutes on medium heat. The ingredients should be combined and bourbon cooked off and it may look granular. Now remove from heat and stir in remaining cream slowly being careful not to splash. Once cream is incorporated return to med-low heat and allow to simmer another 5-10 minutes stirring occasionally. Once cooled store and add to top of pudding or ice cream.

BOURBON BANANA BREAD RECIPE

Steps:

• Heat the bourbon in a small saucepan for about 2 minutes.
• Remove from the heat and set aside. Butter and flour a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan or line it with parchment paper.
• Preheat the oven to 325 F. Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium-sized bowl.
• In the bowl of your stand mixer (or a large bowl) mix together the melted butter and sugar. Beat well until blended. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Then add in the mashed bananas, cooled bourbon, and vanilla extract.
• Add the flour mixture in thirds to the wet mixture. Stirring gently after each bit. DO NOT OVERMIX.
• Pour the mixture into the prepared loaf pan and bake on a middle rack in the oven for about 1 hour. Bake for less time if you are baking on convection.
• Check its doneness with a toothpick. It should come out fairly clean, but it is OK if it looks a little sticky. This is a very dense and moist bread.
• Place the loaf pan on a cooling rack.
• Whisk together the bourbon and confectioners' sugar until thick and smooth. Once the bread is cooled and removed from the pan, drizzle the glaze over the top of the bread. The bread tastes even better the second day.