Thursday, June 19, 2008

Spiced Bananabread

In these warm summer days, bananas go ripe very fast, sometimes too fast some might think. But not IHOB, because in my world a few over ripe bananas, is the perfect excuse for making a banana bread.
This recipe I found on Baking Bites's website. To me it sounded to be the perfect mix of bananas and spices, so I had to try it out. Though I did put my own little spin on it.
Ingredients:
2 cup whole wheat flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cinnamon (sub for 1 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice)
1/2 tsp ground allspice
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp ground cardamom
pinch freshly ground nutmeg
1/2 cup brown sugar1 cup banana, mashed (about 2 large)
1/2 cup corn syrup
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 tbsp vegetable oil
Combine the ingredients as you normally would and pour then the batter in a lightly greased loaf pan.
Bake the bread at 350 for around 45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the middle.
The bread came out really good and perfect as a morning treat. By using all whole wheat flour is was probably a bit more dense, so more break-like, but it was gone very fast, which I take as a good sign!

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