Banana Bran Breakfast Bread Recipes

BANANA BRAN BREAD | BANANA NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit. Place a parchment paper on loaf pan and Grease the loaf pan with spray/butter
• In a wide bowl add wheat flour, all-purpose-flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; mix well and set aside
• In a separate bowl add cereal, banana, eggs and vanilla; mix well. Let the mixture sit for 5 minutes or till the cereal softens
• In Separate bowl beat butter and sugar on medium speed till both are combined well
• Add small quantity of flour, cereal mixture and mix well. Keep doing this till you add all the flour mixture and wet ingredients
• Add the almonds and give a final mix. Transfer the mixture into a loaf pan and bake for 30 -32 minutes or till the fork/pick comes out clean
• Remove from pan and serve it warm or cold

BANANA BRAN BREAD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease or spray 2 8" x 4" loaf pans.
• In a large bowl, mash bananas.
• Add eggs, vanilla, and applesauce and blend.
• Mash the bran cereal (not flakes) and mix with flour.
• Add remaining dry ingredients (except baking soda) and stir well.
• Dissolve baking soda in milk. Put this in a container bigger than one cup. It will foam up a lot. [make sour milk by adding 1/2 teaspoon of vinegar].
• Add milk mixture to rest of ingredients and mix well.
• Fold in nuts and pour into greased pans.
• Bake for about 1 hour and 5 minutes depending on your oven. Start checking for doneness at 55 minutes. (especially with Pyrex pans)
• For a moist bread, a toothpick should come out almost clean. Totally clean will mean a dryer loaf.
• After removing from oven, let cool for 15 minutes and remove from pans. Bread will freeze nicely.

ALL BRAN BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180 degree C.
• Combine dry ingredients and add egg, water, milk and banana.
• Mix until well combined.
• Spoon into a greased loaf tin.
• Bake in oven for 30-45 minutes or until cooked when tested.
• Note- the original recipe says to cook for 45 minutes but mine was done at 30 minutes, so I suggest testing at 30 minutes so it dosn't overcook.

EASY CAKE-MIX BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Generously spray 2 (8x4-inch) loaf pans with cooking spray; lightly flour pans.
• Select your favorite banana bread recipe variation from those below.
• In large bowl, beat all ingredients above plus ingredients from selected variation below until well mixed. Divide batter evenly between pans.
• Bake 45 to 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of loaves comes out clean and inside of cracks do not look wet. Cool 15 minutes in pans on cooling racks. Remove loaves from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 2 hours, to prevent crumbling when slicing. For easier slicing, store loaves tightly covered 24 hours. Cut with serrated knife, using a light sawing motion.

FAT FREE BANANA BRAN BREAD

Steps:

• Beat together banana, egg substitute, applesauce, bran cereal, and vanilla.
• Set aside.
• In another bowl, mix whole wheat flour, all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar.
• Combine wet and dry ingredients, sitrring only until moistened.
• Spoon batter into greased loaf pan.
• Bake at 340 degrees for 50 minutes to 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean.
• Renmove from oven and cool in pan for 5 minutes.
• Remove from pan.
• Cool completely before slicing.