Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, banana nut bread. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Banana Nut Bread is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Banana Nut Bread is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have banana nut bread using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Banana Nut Bread:
- Take 5 tbsp butter
- Get 1/2 cup sugar or sugar substitute
- Get 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- Take 1 egg
- Take 3 tsp egg replacement powder
- Take 4 tbsp water
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 1 1/2 cup mashed, very ripe bananas
- Take 1 3/4 cup Rice flour (or flour of your choice)
- Make ready 1/2 tsp xanthum gum (if using regular all purpose flour don't need this ingredient)
- Get 1 tsp baking soda
- Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
- Take 1/4 tsp baking powder
- Get 1/2 cup heavy cream
- Take 1/3 cup chopped walnuts
Steps to make Banana Nut Bread:
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray bottom only of 9x5x3 loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- Beat butter in large bowl with an electric mixer set @ medium speed until light & fluffy. Add sugars. Beat well. Add egg. Mix well.
- In small bowl, mix egg replacement & water together well. (Could replace these 2 ingredients with 2 egg whites.) Add to other mixture. Then add vanilla. Mix well.
- Add mashed banana, & beat on high speak 30 seconds.
- Combine flour, xanthum gum, baking soda, salt, & baking powder in medium bowl. Add flour mixture alternately with cream, ending with flour mixture. Add walnuts to batter, mix well.
- Pour batter evenly into prepared loaf pan. Bake 1hr 15 minutes, or until browned & toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool bread in pan on wire rack 10 minutes. Remove bread from pan; cool completely on wire rack.
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