Banana Macadamia Bread Recipes

BANANA MACADAMIA NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350º.
• Grease and flour a loaf pan.
• In a bowl, mix butter and sugar until creamy.
• In a separate bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt.
• Blend dry ingredients with creamed butter/sugar mixture.
• Add mashed bananas, eggs and nuts.
• Pour into loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour or until a knife comes out clean.

BANANA MACADAMIA BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
• 2. In a medium-size bowl, mash bananas and rum.
• 3. In another medium bowl, sift flour, baking powder, salt, allspice and soda together.
• 4. In a medium mixing bowl, beat sugar and butter until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• 5. Add flour mixture a little at a time until mixed in well.
• 6. Slowly add banana mixture, beating after each addition until smooth.
• 7. Add nuts.
• 8. Pour mixture into a greased 8 inch x 4 inch x 3 inch loaf pan. Bake about one hour, until firm and a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

COCONUT AND MACADAMIA NUT BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Into a bowl sift together the flour, the baking powder, the baking soda, and the salt. In a large bowl with an electric mixer cream the butter with the sugars until the mixture is light and fluffy and beat in the vanilla, the eggs, 1 at at time, the zest, the banana, and the sour cream. Add the flour mixture, beat the batter until it is just combined, and stir in the macadamia nuts and the coconut. Divide the batter among 5 well-buttered and floured 5 3/4- by 3 1/4-inch loaf pans and bake the breads in the middle of a preheated 350°F. oven for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Remove the breads from the pans and let them cool, right sides up, on a rack.