Thursday, September 25, 2008

Banana Bread




I love banana bread and I was thinking of ways to make it look as good as it tastes, so I just placed some thin slices of banana on top of the loaf before I put it in the oven. Make sure to have the slices of banana overlapping or there will be gaps (as you can see from the center picture). The banana bread pictured above are mini loafs but it works just as well with a regular size loaf. I have found that most banana bread recipes will fill 3 mini loaf pans.
Use your favorite banana bread recipe and with any recipe that I use I always add an extra 1/2 Cup of ripe bananas, it not only gives it more flavor but makes it less dry.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

you are too cute!

I made banana bread a few days ago from my new baking book: Americas Test Kitchen Baking Book (I highly recommend this and their cooking book) and it recommends toasting the nuts before you add them. This brings out the flavor of the nuts and I feel it also kept them from feeling soggy in the finished product.