Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Banana Bread


I found this on Recipezaar (#1387) and changed a couple of ingredients. Let's see how they turn out!

1 cup flour (supposed to be 1 3/4 but I didn't have enough)
3/4 cup ground up oatmeal
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp lemon zest, optional (I didn't use any)
1/4 cup almonds, ground (I used dk choc cinnamon almonds from Dove ground up)
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cup ripe bananas, mashed, about 4 medium

Preheat oven to 350.
Grease 9x5 loaf pan (I used silicone muffin pans)
Sift first 7 ingredients in a bowl.
Add zest and almonds. Stir until conbined.
Beat sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat till blended.
Alternate adding bananas and flour mixture until blended.
Pour into prepared pan.
Bake 1 hour until toothpick comes out clean. (Muffins took about 35 minutes)
Cool in pan on wire rack 10 minutes then remove from pan and cool completely on rack.

Mine turned out tasting delicious but they wouldn't come out of the silicone nicely. They sat in there about 30 minutes while I took care of some baths and getting a one year old to bed so maybe that was the problem. Or maybe using oatmeal and flour instead of all flour didn't work. I'll try these again with the right amount of flour and see how they go. Using the chocolate almonds again for sure!

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