Community Pick
Cranberry Banana Bread
photo by Axe A.
- Ready In:
- 1hr 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
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1 loaf
ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄4 - 1⁄2 cup butter or 1/4-1/2 cup margarine, softened
- 1 cup mashed banana
- 1⁄4 cup milk
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄2 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 1⁄2 cups coarsely chopped fresh cranberries or 1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped frozen cranberries
directions
- Preheat the oven to 350F degrees.
- Grease an 8 1/2 by 4 1/2 inch loaf pan.
- Mix sugar and butter in a medium mixing bowl until completely blended.
- Add banana, milk and eggs, mixing well.
- Add dry ingredients, mixing just until moist.
- Stir in nuts and cranberries.
- Spread batter evenly in the loaf pan.
- Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the centre of the bread comes out clean.
- Remove from pan, cool on rack.
Questions & Replies
Reviews
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This is SO easy to make and tastes great. I took it to work and it was devoured in no time at all. I might add a few more nuts next time because I really like the different textures. I used frozen cranberries - whole. They just kind of POP in your mouth that way. All in all, a great recipe. Can't wait to make it again.
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I usually use a different recipe but tried this one out for something different this time. I'm sorry this gets a 2. It looks great but there's 2 problems I had with this recipe. 1 cup of mashed banana isn't enough. I couldn't even see the banana veins in the loaf (it looked more like pound cake...and it tasted more like pound cake). Second problem I had was figuring out how much butter to use. 1/4 vs 1/2 cup is a big difference. Why does the recipe list that like that? <br/><br/>If you are using this recipe, my advice would be to double the banana to 2 cups of mashed banana and 5 Tbsp of butter. You may need to add in another 1-3 tbsp of flour too depending on how your batter looks.
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This is a great banana bread recipe. Very moist. I did a couple of things differently: I used vegetable oil instead of butter, and left out the walnuts because I'm allergic. I also added 1/4 tsp. nutmeg to the batter for a little flavor. The sweetness of the bananas contrasts nicely with the tart cranberries. My family ate half the loaf in one afternoon! Yummy!
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Tweaks
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I deviated from the recipe by using gluten-free flour, upping the cranberries to two cups, and using brown sugar rather than white sugar. The recipe gives a range for the amount of butter, and I used the upper amount of one stick of butter. Perhaps because of these changes, I needed about an extra 20 minutes baking time. If the extra time had caused the bread to brown too much, I would have put some foil on top toward the end of the baking time, but that wasn't necessary.
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LOVE THIS RECIPE! (And will never make regular Banana Bread again.) My husband is a diabetic so I used Splenda instead of sugar and used "I cannot believe its not butter fat free", egg beaters and also added 1 tsp vanilla. I doubled the recipe and made a bunch of muffins and hid them in the freezer thinking they would last longer, boy was I wrong! I only got two of them and the rest were gone with in a week my family could not stop eating them! Thanks so much for sharing your recipe.
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Really good bread - I had a lot of overripe bananas sitting on the counter, so I made a double batch with 3/4 cup butter, used almonds instead of walnuts (since I was out!) and added in about 1 cup of white chocolate chips. I also added 1/2 tsp salt and 1 tsp baking soda - I just felt like it would need it as a double batch. It's sitting on the counter waiting to cool, but the bite I had (that had stuck to the bottom of the pan) was GREAT! - Update - I have now made this a 2nd time without the white chocolate chips and the loaves came out of the pans perfectly! I will definitely keep this one in the "banana recipe" file to make again!
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