I also couldn't resist a flair of Western - flavor fusion by adding crushed pecans to the recipe because pecans or walnuts always go well together with banana
in any banana bread recipe.
When I got older and started to fall in love with baking I started to experiment with
flavors in my banana bread like blueberries and chocolate chips.
My preference is for
raisins in banana bread, but you could leave this out if you have as strong an aversion to them as I do nuts in baked goods.
I never like wasting ingredients on an unsuccessful recipe, but I loved the concept of the chocolate
swirl in banana bread.
Just made today... I was not sure how chocolate chips would
taste in banana bread, almost switched to raisins..
I totally agree with you about the word moist but like you said it's what you
want in a banana bread and this one looks amazing.
And cacao powder is a different type of dry ingredient so if you add that it will act more as a flour rather than solid
bits in the banana bread.
So, I opted for cookies instead, which, my husband did not enjoy (because «bananas
belong in banana bread, not cookies», says he).
When I used to work in a cafe my boss explained that using
molasses in banana bread could make it taste more caramelized if the bananas weren't ripe enough.
With a banana peel as your medium, there is little hope of preservation for prosperity — unless you find good
fortune in banana bread.
I rarely use
butter in my banana bread, but I wanted to follow the original recipe, and the butter really does add a little richness to this recipe.
I would have liked a little more banana
flavor in the banana bread, but it was light and moist which gives it some serious thumbs up.
I've used cassava flour
before in this banana bread, these truffles, and in the breading for my crispy chicken tenders, but hadn't experimented with it as much as I would've liked to.
There's more fiber than you'll generally
find in a banana bread, and we like that this makes a single serving cake that's just perfect for those times when it's just you and you want something that can be eaten as a dessert and won't derail all of your healthy eating progress.
I guess I am
in a banana bread state of mind or I am not that creative when it comes to figuring out what to do with a bunch of aging bananas - either way I whipped up a whole - wheat banana bread studded with dark chocolate chips and sweetened only with honey.
But now that my tastes have evolved more and I actually love the texture of oatmeal (
especially in this banana bread version), I decided to give the cookies another shot and create my version.
Barley flour
goes in my banana bread and in some fabulous barley coconut crackers, which are all - time favorites in my house.
Now, I prefer to include a little bit of honey
in my banana bread just to achieve that level of moistness, but you can of course exclude it all together...
The
prunes in this banana bread recipe give it sweetness but also a deeper flavour that you wouldn't get if you just added more brown sugar.