Bananas
I’m always looking for banana recipes and this one is surely a keeper. They turned out to be more cake-like than I expected, but were super delicious.
Ingredients:
1/2 Cup Butter, softened
1 Cup Sugar
1 Egg
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
1 1/2 Cup Mashed Ripe Bananas (about 3 medium)
1 1/2 Cup All-Purpose Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/4 Cup Cocoa Powder
Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray a 9″ x 13″ baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.
In a large bowl, mix together the butter and sugar with an electric mixer until smooth. Add the egg and vanilla, mixing to combine. Mix in the bananas.
In another bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir the flour mixture into the banana mixture.
Divide the batter evenly between two bowls. Add the cocoa powder to one bowl and stir to combine. Pour the cocoa batter into the prepared baking dish and spread out evenly.
Spoon the other bowl of batter over the cocoa batter in the baking dish. Swirl with a knife.
Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 30 minutes.
-Recipe comes from BeckyHiggins.com-
Tags: Banana, Banana Bars, Banana Bread, Bananas, Bars, Bread, Breakfast, Cake, Chocolate, Cocoa Powder, Dessert
This is a much healthier version of banana bread. Turned out pretty good too!
Ingredients:
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup unsweetened applesauce
1 Tablespoon butter or margarine
¼ cup brown sugar
2 eggs
3 cups mashed bananas
Preheat over to 350°F. Spray a loaf pan with non-stick spray.
In a large bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda and salt.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the applesauce, butter and brown sugar. Stir in the eggs and mashed bananas. Pour this mixture onto the flour mixture. Stir to combine.
Pour into the prepared loaf pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1 hour 15 minutes.
These cookies are amazing because they have no eggs, no flour, no sugar, and no butter. I guess that means you can eat as many as you like! I found this recipe on Weelicious.com. When I made these, I used 1/4 cup chocolate and 1/4 chopped walnuts. So good! Chloe likes these too!
Ingredients:
3 Bananas (preferably ripe or spotty bananas), mashed
2 Cups Old Fashioned Oats
1 Cup Dried Dates, pitted and chopped
1/4 Cup Oil
1/2 Tsp Cinnamon
1/2 Cup Chocolate Chips, Walnuts or Raisins
1/4 Tsp Salt
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease two foiled lined baking sheets with non-stick cooking spray.
Mix together all ingredients in a bowl. Let the dough rest for 10 minutes.
Using a small cookie scoop or rounded Tablespoon, drop cookies onto the baking sheet.
Bake for 25 minutes.
Yields: about 30 cookies
Tags: Bananas, Chocolate Chips, Cookies, Dessert, Gluten Free, Snack, Walnuts
I’m always looking for new uses for overripe bananas. This is adapted from a recipe from All Recipes. These turned out pretty good. They were more moist than regular pancakes because of the banana. Chloe ate a whole pancake herself!
Ingredients:
1 cup flour
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 egg
1 ¼ cups milk
2 tablespoons canola oil
2 over ripe bananas, mashed
Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon in a large bowl.
In another bowl, whisk together the egg, milk, oil and bananas. Add this to the banana mixture. Mix until just combined. The batter will be lumpy.
Heat a greased griddle pan over medium high heat. Ladle the batter onto the griddle and cook until browned on each side.
I always have tons of bananas at my house and usually just make banana bread with them. I think this will be my new favorite use for super ripe bananas! YUM!
Ingredients:
1 2/3 cups mashed ripe bananas (4-5 bananas)
¾ cup brown sugar
¼ cup canola oil
¼ cup milk
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnnamon
¼ tsp salt
1 ¾ Cups flour
1 cup mini chocolate chips, divided
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 11×17 in baking sheet with foil and spray with non-stick spray.
With an electric mixer, whisk bananas, brown sugar, oil, milk, eggs, vanilla, baking soda and salt together. Add flour and mix just until fully incorporated. Stir in ½ cup mini chocolate chips.
Pour onto prepared pan and spread evenly. Sprinkle with the remaining chocolate chips.
Bake until a tooth pick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 12 minutes.
Allow to cool completely in pan before cutting with a pizza cutter.
I needed a banana bread recipe that didn’t use eggs or brown sugar just because I ran out of both of those. I really love my other banana bread recipe, but this one is a close second. I found this recipe and it was just perfect.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup margarine
1 cup white sugar
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon Kosher salt
1 ½ cups very ripe mashed bananas
1 tsp pure vanilla
¼ cup chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 325°F and grease a loaf pan with nonstick spray.
In the bowl of a mixer, cream together the margarine, sugar and vanilla.
Sift in the flour and baking soda. Add salt and mix at low speed to combine. Mix in the bananas and chocolate chips.
Pour batter into the loaf pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 60-70 minutes.
Muffins-
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/4 tsp Salt
1/2 Cup Butter or Margerine
3/4 Cup Brown Sugar
2 Eggs, Lightly Beaten
2 1/3 Cup Mashed Overripe Bananas (5-6 bananas)
I make banana bread all the time! We get a lot of bananas in our Bountiful Basket each week and don’t end up eating them all. This is a great way to use up bananas.
Ingredients:
2 Cups All Purpose Flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/4 tsp Salt
1/2 Cup Butter or Margerine
3/4 Cup Brown Sugar
2 Eggs, Lightly Beaten
2 1/3 Cup Mashed Overripe Bananas (5-6 bananas)
1/2 Cup Walnuts
Preheat oven to 350 and grease a loaf pan with non stick spray.
Combine the flour, baking soda and salt together in a large bowl and set aside. In another bowl, cream together the butter and brown sugar with an electric mixer. I never mash the bananas completely or even measure the last 1/3 cup. Mashing bananas is kinds of unappetizing, so I do this part quickly and fill up the measuring cup. The mixer will mash them enough.
Add the bananas and eggs to the butter mixture and mix until combined. Pour this over the flour mixture and stir until thoroughly combined. Stir in the walnuts. Pour into the loaf pan and bake for 1 hour. It usually takes about 5-10 minutes longer, but I always check after 1 hour. It will be done when a toothpick inserted into the middle of the loaf comes out clean. Make sure you move your oven racks so there is plenty of room for the bread to rise.
For Zucchini Bread: Substitute the bananas for 2 cups shredded zucchini (1 large zucchini). The directions are the same for either bread.
