Banana Bread

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour;

1 teaspoon baking soda;

1/2 teaspoon salt;

½ teaspoon cinnamon;

¼ teaspoon nutmeg;

2/3 cup sugar;

2-1/2 T butter, softened;

1 1/2 cups mashed ripe banana (about 4 bananas);

3 T skim milk;

3 T fat-free sour cream or vanilla yogurt;

2 large egg whites;

½ t vanilla extract.

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat loaf pan with cooking spray. In a large bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Set aside.

In a different large mixing bowl OR stand mixer bowl, combine sugar and butter. "Beat at medium speed of a mixer until well-blended." Stop beater. Add banana, milk, sour cream, and egg whites. Resume beating until well combined.

Pour flour mixture into banana mixture and beat until everything is well-blended. 

Pour batter into loaf pan. Bake 60 or 70 minutes, or until loaf passes the toothpick test. (Insert a toothpick in the middle of the bread. If it comes out clean, you're golden.) Remove from oven. Let sit for 10 minutes on a wire rack. Pry bread from pan and let it cool totally on that same wire rack. For best flavor, wrap in tin foil and let sit overnight.

Banana Bread

Ingredients:

3/4 cup wholewheat flour;

1/2 cup all purpose flour;

3/4 cup brown sugar;

2 ripe bananas;

1/4 cup milk;

2 tbsp yogurt;

1/4 cup oil;

1/2 tsp cinnamon powder;

1 tsp vanilla essence;

1 tsp baking soda;

1/2 tsp baking powder;

1 tbsp tutty fruity;

1/8 tsp salt.

Preparation:

Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius.Grease the loaf pan and keep aside. Sieve the dry ingredients,wheat flour, all purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon powder together 3 times.

Beat milk and sugar together till sugar dissolves.Add oil,yogurt,mashed banana, vanilla extract and mix nicely.Combine with the above dry ingredients and mix nicely until all lumps dissappear. Pour the batter in a 9x5x3 inch loaf pan upto 3/4 level.Sprinkle some tutty fruity over it. Bake for 50 minutes and test with a toothpick in the very center of the loaf to come out clean.Let it cool on a cooling rack, slice and enjoy.

Banana Bread Vegan

Ingredients:

4 ts baking powder;

1 ts vanilla;

3 bananas; mashed; 

1/2 c wheat germ;

1 apple; finely chopped;

1 ts sea salt;

1 1/2 c flour; whole wheat;

1/2 c wheat bran;

3/4 c turbinado sugar.

Preparation:

Combine all ingredients. Bake 60-75 minutes in a greased and floured loaf pan, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from pan and cool on its side. 

Glazed Lemon Bread

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour;

1 teaspoon salt;

1 cup sugar;

peel of 1 lemon; grated;

1 tablespoon baking powder;

1/2 cup whole milk;

2 large eggs; beaten; 

1/2 cup unsalted butter; (1-stick), melted;

juice of 1 large lemon;

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract. 

Lemon glaze: 

juice of 1 large lemon 

1/4 cup sugar; (up to 1/3 cup).

Preparation:

Adjust an oven rack to the lower-middle position and heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease the bottom and sides of a 9- by 5-inch loaf pan; dust with flour, tapping out the excess.

Whisk the flour, salt, sugar, lemon peel and baking powder together in a large bowl; set aside.

In a medium bowl beat eggs with milk, butter, lemon juice and vanilla. Add egg mixture to the dry ingredients and stir until just combined. Scrape the batter into the prepared loaf pan.

Bake until the loaf is golden brown and a tester or toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 45 to 50 minutes. (Do not remove the bread from the pan.)

To prepare Lemon Glaze: While the bread is baking, combine lemon juice and sugar in a small saucepan, stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved.

After removing the bread from the oven (and still in the pan), use a long wooden skewer to poke numerous holes in hot bread, piercing all the way to the bottom. Slowly drizzle hot glaze over bread and baste top several times. Allow time between bastings for glaze to soak in. Let bread cool in pan on a wire rack until glaze is set, about 20 minutes, then remove from pan and let cool completely on rack.