Holiday Banana Bread Recipes

BANANA BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.

HOLIDAY CINNAMON BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a bread pan and set aside.
• Using either a mixer or hand mixer, mix the butter, sugar and brown sugar together until combined. Add the eggs and vanilla. Mix until combined. Add mashed bananas and stir in gently until mixed.
• In a separate bowl, combined flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon.
• Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until evenly combined. Don't overmix.
• Add a third of the batter to the pan and sprinkle a third of the cinnamon sugar on top. Repeat all three layers. Top bread with cinnamon sugar before baking.
• Bake for 55- 65 minutes. Cover banana bread with foil for the last 15 minutes if banana bread becomes too dark.
• Remove and let cool in the pan for ten minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
• Banana bread can be kept at room temperature for up to 5 days.

PERSIMMON BANANA NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven at 350 degree Fahrenheit. Peel and puree the persimmon. Mash the banana with fork and set aside. Prepare 8.5X4.5 inch loaf pan by coating with thin layer of butter and then dust with flour. See Note 2 and 3 for details.
• In a wide bowl, whisk the dry ingredients - flour, sugar, baking soda, nutmeg, and salt and set aside.
• In a small bowl, combine wet ingredients - egg, milk, melted cooled butter. Whisk until egg mix well with milk. Add into dry ingredients along with pureed persimmon, mashed banana, nuts and raisins (if using).
• Fold the ingredients until just combined. Don't over mix.
• Pour into prepared loaf and bake for 45-50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
• Let bread cool 10 minutes before slicing. Serve with tea or orange butter (*recipe in notes). Enjoy!

HOLIDAY BANANA BREAD

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.

CHRISTMAS BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture. Beat in bananas just until combined. Stir in the walnuts, chocolate chips and cherries., Pour into a greased 9x5-in. loaf pan. Bake at 350° for 70-80 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack.

HOLIDAY BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Wax paper line 2 loaf pans (2 1/2" x 3 5/6" x 7 1/2")Chop walnuts, cherries, also measure mini choco-chips. Soften oleo.
• 2. In Mixing bowl: cream oleo w/ sugar, add eggs and beat. Add bananas and vanilla and beat. to soured milk add a tsp of soda ( be sure to hold measuring cup over mixing bowl as milk and soda foam). Alternate half of milk and cup of flour- mix and repeat w/ milk and remaining flour. scrape down bowl and min again. Remove Beaters and fold in choco-chips, walnuts, and cherries. Divide batter in wax paper lined pans. Bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees. test w/ toothpick. Cool on rank for i5 minutes before removing wax paper.
• 3. When totally cooled, wrap and refridgerate. for special treat, slice and spread w/ cream cheese for finger sandwiches (Cut in half).

HOLIDAY BANANA BREAD

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.