Freezer

Ok.  Yes, I finally tackled my overly full freezer.  I just had to. Stuff just tumbled out anytime anyone opened the damn thing!  I tossed a few suspicious looking items, made mental notes (I will forget them later) for dinner ideas this week and next and figured I had to do something with the Gazillion frozen bananas I had.  Yup, I had that many!  After very little searching I came across this recipe below. My usual banana bread recipe has to have chocolate chips in it.  Believe it or not  - I didn’t have any!  What the??!?!?  (Just made some Chocolate Chip cookies the other day)

Anyways, I thought these muffins/bread turned out very tasty.  Moist too.  I doubled the recipe and used up 6 bananas.  I did 12 muffins and one loaf bread.  I loved the way the muffins turned out I wished I would have made them all in muffins.  (that would have required more patience then I was willing to allow – I was stick of being in the kitchen)

So if you are like me and end up freezing more bananas than you actually eat, clean out that freezer and try these!

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THE BANANA BREAD

  • 3-4 overripe bananas, smashed up
  • 1/3 cup melted unsalted butter
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 cups flour

THE SWIRL

  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1 tbsp cinnamon

HOW TO MAKE IT

  • Preheat oven to 350°F
  • Line your muffin pan with 12 paper liners or spray a 9×5″ loaf pan with cooking spray
  • Mix bananas, butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla together
  • Sprinkle baking soda and salt around on top of the banana mixture; then gently stir in flour
    • Be careful not to over-mix!
  • In a small dish, mix together the 1/3 cup sugar and 1 tbsp cinnamon
  • Fill the paper liners halfway with batter then evenly distribute 1/2 the cinnamon-sugar mixture over the batter (or add 1/2 of the batter to the loaf pan and then sprinkle half, or a little more than half of the cinnamon-sugar mixture all over the batter in the pan)
  • Add the rest of the batter to the paper liners and then sprinkle the leftover cinnamon-sugar on top (or sprinkle the rest of the cinnamon-sugar all over the loaf)
  • Bake for 20-25 minutes (50-60 minutes for a 9×5″ loaf)

Comments

  1. PurpletoesJuly 10, 2014 at 9:48 PM

    I have a gazillion bananas too. Might have to try the muffins soon.

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