Banana Bread Man’s Banana Bread
- Ready In:
- 1hr 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 18
- Serves:
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10
ingredients
- 1⁄3 cup pecans, toasted and coarsely chopped
- 1⁄3 cup cashews, toasted and coarsely chopped
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 cup butter, softened (1 stick)
- 1 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 2 extra-large eggs
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1⁄4 cup dark rum
- 2 cups mashed bananas (4 to 5 Medium banana)
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 3 tablespoons plain yogurt or 3 tablespoons sour cream
- 1⁄2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup pitted dates, chopped
- 1⁄3 cup dried cherries
- 1⁄3 cup diced dried papayas or 1/3 cup apricot
directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease and flour an 8.5” – 4.5” loaf pan.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour and baking soda.
- In a large bowl beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Add the bananas, vanilla extract, rum and spices. Beat until blended.
- Alternately add the dry ingredients and the yogurt to the batter, beating until fluffy. Fold the remaining ingredients into the batter.
- Spoon the batter into the pan; bake for 10 minutes. Reduce the temperature to 300 degrees and bake for 70 minutes until the bread pulls away slightly from the sides of the pan and a toothpick inserted comes away clean.
- Let the bread cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Invert the loaf onto a rack, remove the pan, then turn the loaf right side up to cool completely.
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Reviews
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This is an outstanding banana bread. I have made it a couple of times now. It's quite dense - almost like a Christmas cake. I used a nice dark rum - Pussers. I have made a couple of substitutions out of necessity and both turned out well. (I used dried mangos for the papayas and macadamia nuts for the pecans.) This recipe is definitely worth the effort!
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
R. Warren Meddoff
Plantation, Florida
I am a Venture Capitalist doing environmentally responsable commercial real estate development, based in South Florida and Santa Fe, New Mexico. I collect art & antiques and enjoy cooking as a relaxing hobby along with exotic tropical gardening. My all time favorite cookbook is Craig Clairborne's New York Times Cookbook. My passions are fine food, fine wine, art, travel. When Itake a month off with no responsibilities it is to travel in Tuscany, Spain, Southern France, Morocco or the American Southwest. .