Yuletide Banana Bread Recipes

BEST EVER BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. In another bowl, combine the eggs, bananas, oil, buttermilk and vanilla; add to flour mixture, stirring just until combined. Fold in nuts. , Pour into a greased or parchment-lined 9x5-in. loaf pan. If desired, sprinkle with additional walnuts. Bake until a toothpick comes out clean, 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 hours. Cool in pan for 15 minutes before removing to a wire rack.

CHRISTMAS BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture. Beat in bananas just until combined. Stir in the walnuts, chocolate chips and cherries., Pour into a greased 9x5-in. loaf pan. Bake at 350° for 70-80 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack.

BLUEBERRY-BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Place an oven rack in the center of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour a 9- by 5- by 3-inch loaf pan. Set aside.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg. In a large bowl, beat the sugar, oil, eggs and vanilla until blended. Stir in the bananas and blueberries. Add the dry ingredients and stir just until blended.
• Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Bake until a cake tester inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool for 15 minutes. Remove the loaf from the pan and cool completely on a wire rack, about 2 hours.

BEST BANANA YOGURT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8x4-inch loaf pan.
• Combine 1 cup sugar and butter in a bowl; beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Beat in eggs and vanilla extract. Mix in flour and allspice gradually until batter is blended. Fold in bananas and banana-flavored yogurt.
• Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan.
• Mix 3 tablespoons sugar and cloves together in a small bowl; sprinkle over batter.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour.

CHRISTMAS BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F Butter and flour one 8 ½ x 4 ½" loaf pan.
• Cream the butter with the sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add the eggs and beat until combined. Beat in the bananas.
• Combine the flour, spices, salt and baking soda in another bowl, then fold in the dry ingredients into the creamed mixture just until combined; do not over mix.
• Pour into the pan and bake until a tester stuck in the middle of the banana bread comes out clean, 50-60 minutes.
• Let cool on a rack before removing from the pan.

CHRISTMAS BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar in large mixing bowl.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Gradually addo to creamed butter.
• MIx in bananas; fold in walnuts, chocolate and cherries.
• Pour into greased 9" x 5" x 3" loaf pan. Bake at 350 F for 60 minutes, until toothpick inserted in center of loaf comes out clean.
• Cool 10 minutes before removing from pan to wire rack.