High Altitude Banana Bread With Crumb Topping Recipes

HIGH-ALTITUDE BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Combine butter, eggs, sugar, and mashed bananas in bowl. Bananas should be finely mashed, there can be small (1 cm or less) chunks of banana in the batter.
• Combine flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and cinnamon in another bowl.
• Mix wet and dry ingredients together until well blended.
• If you would like to add optional ingredients (chopped nuts, dried fruit, and/or chocolate chips), stir in about 1/2 cup here.
• Pour dough into 1 greased 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• Bake at 350F for 50 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Let bread cool in pan for 5-10 minutes before removing.
• Enjoy hot or cold!

BANANA BREAD WITH OAT-STREUSEL TOPPING

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 2 loaf pans, 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches.
• To make the streusel topping, mix 1/4 cup of cut-up butter, 1/2 cup flour, brown sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and oats in a bowl until crumbly. Set aside.
• Cream the sugar and butter together in a bowl, and stir in the eggs. Add the bananas, buttermilk, and vanilla extract, and stir until the mixture is well blended. Beat in the flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, cinnamon, and nuts.
• Scoop the batter into the prepared loaf pans. Sprinkle the top of each loaf with half the streusel topping.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes, until the loaves have risen and the topping is browned. Let the banana bread cool in the pans for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to finish cooling.