WHO: Jennifer Perillo is the author of the cookbook “Homemade with Love.”
WHAT: A blond, bold, boozy bread with brown butter, bourbon, buttermilk, and brown sugar. It's bananas!
My mother used to make banana bread all the time when I was growing up, and it was one of the treats we most looked forward to. Tender, with a crisp, brown crust and an intense banana flavor, it was just the thing for breakfast, or toasted and thickly buttered with a hot cup of tea.
For the pulled pork I pretty much followed my faithful slow cooker kalua pork recipe, except I added a quartered orange and garlic plus a splash of passion fruit rum. For the banana bread, use your favorite recipe, as long as the bread can be sliced and griddled without falling apart. I made a quick cabbage slaw using coconut white balsamic vinegar, lemon sugar, and shredded red cabbage. If you don't have smoked sea salt, passion fruit rum, coconut white balsamic vinegar, and lemon sugar, you should be fine using regular sea salt, another rum (or skipping the rum altogether), a light vinegar (like cider or rice wine), and regular white sugar.
One cold January week, I just couldn’t get away from banana bread. A loaf packed up in string and brown paper arrived in the post from a baker friend; another friend emailed me asking for my ultimate banana bread recipe; and I arrived at a third friend’s house to the smell of a loaf in the oven. The signs were there: It was a week for banana bread and a quest for the best loaf I could make.
This recipe is inspired by the banana bread I made during my childhood from "The Blender Cookbook." I can't find it anywhere online. I think it's from the manual that came with our blender.
This chocolatey banana confection sits firmly between cake and brownie. It's delightfully tender, fudgy and dense, and chock-full of banana. The best part? It's made from ingredients I typically eat for breakfast—almonds, bananas, coconut oil—plus a few innocuous ones, like unsweetened cocoa and baking powder. This recipe was featured in, The Fudgy Banana-Brownie Cake You Can Eat for Breakfast| New Window.
Quickbreads are so easy, so good, and so fun to dress up. This banana bread recipe uses more bananas than the average, which makes it super moist and full of banana flavor. The additions of nutella and cocoa nibs could be left out for a more traditional bread (still with a serious banana boost)!
After re-discovering The Jumpin' Monkey, coffee and banana smoothie, I've been a believer in the combination of espresso and banana. It's just good. I've had an intense craving for banana bread the past two weeks, but bananas that weren't ripe enough. Ahhhh, the wait. Terrible. But, finally I was able to make banana bread, and I decided to add some espresso to the batter. It's subtle and yummy, and would be particularly good with chocolate chips, if you like chocolate chips in your banana bread, but is also awfully good without. This banana bread recipe is based on Joanne Chang's (I almost always start my baking with a look at how Chang makes something!) and the recipe on Smitten Kitchen, which I believe she got from Elise Bauer of Simply Recipes.
I've tinkered with the classic banana bread recipe plenty, searching for ways to make it more moist and tender without being too dense. Adding cream cheese to the batter is an excellent trick: The small amount gives good flavor and texture without weighing down the bread too much. I also call for some Greek yogurt and creme fraiche to add moisture but keep the batter light—if you don't have creme fraiche and don't want to buy it just for this, go ahead and use 4 ounces of Greek yogurt. (I like to use 2 ounces Greek yogurt and 2 ounces creme fraiche.).
For those bananas getting speckled on the counter (or falling at your feet every time you open the freezer door), I’ve found a happy new home. Think: all the comforts of banana bread, with more crunchy-sweet edges and fluffy, chocolate-spiked middles—and ready in, oh, about half the time.
When our test kitchen set out to develop its best banana bread recipe, we obsessed over two components: 1) big-time banana flavor and 2) a moist (but not too moist) and tender (but not too tender) crumb.
There are many variations of banana bread out there, and I’ve tried and loved almost every single one of them. So it felt absolutely necessary to include one with the addition of some of my favorite flavors, including Medjool dates, which I fell in love with when I was living in Israel. This version isn’t overly sweet, namely because it uses plump dates instead of a ton of sugar. Their honey- caramel, jammy, candy flavor brings out the natural sweetness of the banana and coconut. Since I’ll take any opportunity I can get to add a crumb topping, this bread also gets a coconut-walnut crumble that takes the cake to the next level. I love slathering this bread with room-temp butter, creamy date jam, and honey, and finishing with a sprinkle of sea salt. I’m drooling just thinking about it.
This bread happens to be vegan, low-fat, high in fiber, and full of potassium-packed bananas. But that’s not why I like it. I like it because it makes the house smell like cinnamon-spiked nostalgia and because it’s difficult for anyone to eat a single slice (I love to feed people). The fact that maple syrup stands in for sugar, a little coconut oil replaces the usual butter, and flax seed acts as a binder in lieu of eggs is simply a bonus for those who prefer these alternative ingredients, which, in my opinion, shouldn’t be so alternative.
Momma Peggy's Toasted Coconut Chocolate Chip Banana Bread with a Sweet Drizzle Gone Gluten Free... It really doesn't get any better than this. Trust me, I have been around the 'Gluten-less Bakery block' and there is nothing-NOTHING that compares to this Banana Bread.
I have been experimenting with a lot of banana bread recipes out there, eggless, whole wheat, sugar free, etc. I wanted to try one with oat flour and came up with this.
The result was a moist , flavorful banana bread perfect for 1-2 people to enjoy as a tea time snack or dessert. I think it will also be perfect for brunch.
This is a wonderful dairy free banana bread, which takes on a really fantastic caramel undertone when it cooks. It is a quite dark and heavy banana bread, and packed with flavor. Easy to make and 100% vegan, but you would never guess. Modified frpm a recipe I found in Post Punk Kitchen.
Who doesn't love banana bread? But it can get a bit boring. The addition of blueberries makes it perfect for summer. Plus, I purposely developed this recipe so it makes two loaves of banana bread, because we all want leftovers!
Inspired by Field of Greens' Banana-Coconut Bread found in Anne Somerville's "Field of Greens." When I returned to Hawaii after 40 years in New York City, I searched for the scrumptious, buttery banana bread I remembered from childhood but could not find it. Frustrated, I tried many recipes and eventually found that by modifying the Field of Greens' Banana-Coconut Bread recipe, I could reproduce that treasured childhood taste memory.