Blu'bana Bread

Submitted by mightyro_cooking4u

"From the South Carolina Living Magazine. Recipe by Laura Burks, Leesville, SC"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 5mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 20

ingredients

• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 5 bananas (medium, mashed)
• 4 eggs
• 4 cups flour, all-purpose
• 3 teaspoons allspice
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 cups blueberries (fresh or frozen)

directions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour 2 loaf pans. Cream together butter and sugar. Beat in eggs, add vanilla, then fold in mashed bananas. Fold in 2 c of flour. Measure two additional c of flour, reserving 2 T of this to coat blueberries, which are added as a last ingredient. Place remaining flour in a sifter, adding allspice, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Sift and fold into the batter. Sprinkle the 2 T of flour on blueberries, coat well, then fold into batter. Divide the batter between 2 prepared loaf pans. Bake for approximately 50 minutes. Test with toothpick to determine when done (should come out clean from the center).

Reviews

[SweetPeaBearClaw]

I've made this 3x now and it is beyond wonderful! The last batch I actually used half whole wheat flour and half of what the recipe calls for and it was still exactly the same. I also did like the other reviewers and used cinnamon instead of alspice and received rave reviews from everyone who tried it. This recipe does make 2 loaves so you can cut it in half if you want and still have amazing results. I did that on the first batch to see how good it was rather than risk wasting ingredients. On that batch I also used 3 bananas because I didn't want to leave 1/2 a banana laying around and just cut my other fluids back a hair. Thanks so much for such a wonderful recipe Ro! You Rock!

 

[kerdisha]

I love this recipe, I subbed the allspice for cinnamon. It was moist and light and sweet but not too sweet. The BF enjoyed it greatly and he's a picky eater.

 

[januarybride]

Very nice, light and moist bread! I had some blueberries and some bananas to use up, so this fit the bill perfectly. I cut the recipe in half (although I still used 3 large bananas) and it produced one nice sized loaf (took 60 minutes to cook) and 12 mini muffins (which were done in 15 minutes). Next time I will make the entire recipe into mini muffins and I will sub cinnamon for the allspice.