High Altitude Banana Bread With Crumb Topping Recipes

HIGH-ALTITUDE BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Place butter, eggs, and sugar in a mixing bowl. Mix well with an electric mixer.
• Add flour, baking powder, and salt, mix well.
• Add ripe bananas, and use teh mixer to mash them as you mix them into the batter.
• Stir the walnuts into the batter with a spoon. If you are adding any add-ins, go ahead and stir them in now.
• Pour into a greased bread pan, and bake at 350° for 1 hour and 10 minutes -- or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Preheat oven to 350°.

HIGH-ALTITUDE BANANA BREAD WITH CRUMB TOPPING

Steps:

• For the bread:
• Preheat the oven to 350°F, and grease and flour a 9-inch round cake pan. In a large bowl, beat together the softened butter and granulated sugar until smooth. Add the eggs, mashed banana, water, and vanilla and mix to combine. In another bowl, combine the flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and beat until combined. Fold in the chopped walnuts, and pour the batter into your prepared pan, spreading it evenly
• For the crumb topping:
• In a bowl, mix the flour, brown sugar, oats, walnuts, melted butter, cinnamon, and salt together with a fork until medium crumbs form. If yours comes out too dry, add a teaspoon of water. If it's too wet, add a teaspoon of flour. Evenly sprinkle the crumb mixture over the top of the batter.
• Bake for 40 minutes. Then place a piece of foil over the top to prevent overbrowning, and bake until a cake tester inserted into the center of the bread comes out clean, 10 to 15 minutes longer. Cool in the pan completely before removing. Cut into wedges and serve.

HIGH-ALTITUDE BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Combine butter, eggs, sugar, and mashed bananas in bowl. Bananas should be finely mashed, there can be small (1 cm or less) chunks of banana in the batter.
• Combine flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and cinnamon in another bowl.
• Mix wet and dry ingredients together until well blended.
• If you would like to add optional ingredients (chopped nuts, dried fruit, and/or chocolate chips), stir in about 1/2 cup here.
• Pour dough into 1 greased 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• Bake at 350F for 50 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Let bread cool in pan for 5-10 minutes before removing.
• Enjoy hot or cold!

SIMPLY DELICIOUS BANANA CRUMB BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease and flour 8x4 inch loaf pan.
• Whisk together flour, sugar, and baking powder in a mixing bowl. With a pastry blender, cut in the shortening until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Whisk together the eggs, milk, vanilla extract, and cinnamon in a large bowl. Add the banana, and mix well. Fold the flour mixture into the banana mixture until combined. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Prepare the crumb topping by combining the flour, brown sugar, oats, and cinnamon in a mixing bowl. Cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Spoon the crumb mixture over the batter.
• Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes. Reduce heat to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C), and bake until a toothpick inserted in center of the loaf comes out clean, 10 to 15 minutes longer. Cool in pan 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.

BANANA BREAD WITH OAT-STREUSEL TOPPING

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 2 loaf pans, 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches.
• To make the streusel topping, mix 1/4 cup of cut-up butter, 1/2 cup flour, brown sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and oats in a bowl until crumbly. Set aside.
• Cream the sugar and butter together in a bowl, and stir in the eggs. Add the bananas, buttermilk, and vanilla extract, and stir until the mixture is well blended. Beat in the flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, cinnamon, and nuts.
• Scoop the batter into the prepared loaf pans. Sprinkle the top of each loaf with half the streusel topping.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes, until the loaves have risen and the topping is browned. Let the banana bread cool in the pans for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to finish cooling.