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| Mini Banana Bundt Cake with Raw Sugar |
With sugar.
With ganache.
Warm from the oven.
Dripping with butter.
Smuggled in a baggie to work.
Showing posts with label Banana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Banana. Show all posts
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Bananas For The Monkey
With sugar.
With ganache.
Warm from the oven.
Dripping with butter.
Smuggled in a baggie to work.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Serve It Warm With Butter
I've been making this quick bread for probably around five or six years. I picked up the recipe from a co-worker who's husband thought it was too chocolate-ly, so she brought the bread to the office and shared! A lover of all things chocolate, I break out this recipe whenever the bananas on my counter threaten to go bad. This time around, I just happened to have a pint of plump juicy blueberries on hand just begging for attention.
In Steel Magnolias Clairee Belcher asks Truvy Jones for her recipe for Cuppa, Cuppa, Cuppa. Clairee responds after hearing the ingredients with, 'sounds awfully rich'. Truvy says, 'it is, so I serve it over ice cream to cut the sweetness'. This chocolate banana blueberry bread, it's rich, so I serve it warm with butter, you know, to cut the richness!
The recipe calls for a cup of mini chocolate chips, which I don't keep on hand. I use Scharffen Berger bars in 62% Cacao Semisweet and 70% Cacao Bittersweet for my 'everyday' baking. For this bread, I chopped up just over a 1/2 cup of a 62% cacao bar.
I prefer making mini loaves, which make a perfect snack! I wrap the cute little loaves in plastic wrap. By the next morning the powdered sugar has soaked in and the bread is moist and the flavors of fruit and chocolate have become one with each other!
Next time you've got a few bananas on the counter turning brown, don't throw them out, instead, make luscious little loaves of chocolate banana blueberry bread. I promise, you won't be sorry.
Chocolate Banana Bread (With Blueberries)
2 1/2 Cups All-Purpose Flour
1/3 Cup Droste's Cocoa Powder
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1/4 Teaspoon Salt
1 1/4 Cups Sugar
1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil
3 Large Eggs
1 Heaping Cup Mashed Ripe Bananas (About 3)
1 Cup Fresh Blueberries
1 Cup Mini-Chocolate Chips or Chopped Chocolate
Note: If you want to make this without the blueberries, use 1 1/2 cups mashed bananas.
Preheat oven to 325.
Generously grease and dust loaf pans with cocoa powder.
Stir together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
In large bowl, at medium speed, beat sugar, oil, and eggs until well blended. Add bananas and beat until well blended.
At low speed, beat in flour mixture just until blended.
Stir in chocolate chips and blueberries.
Fill mini loaf pans 2/3 full and larger loaf pans 1/2 full. If you aren't using the Mini Petite Loaf Pan (or something similar), place the pans on a cookie sheet. Bake 25 to 30 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes. Remove from pans and cool completely on wire racks.
Dust with powdered sugar and serve warm with butter!
To store, wrap in plastic wrap.
Note: The recipe makes enough batter for six mini loaf pans and three 6 x 3 x 2 foil pans OR thirteen mini loaf's using this Mini Petite Loaf Pan.
In Steel Magnolias Clairee Belcher asks Truvy Jones for her recipe for Cuppa, Cuppa, Cuppa. Clairee responds after hearing the ingredients with, 'sounds awfully rich'. Truvy says, 'it is, so I serve it over ice cream to cut the sweetness'. This chocolate banana blueberry bread, it's rich, so I serve it warm with butter, you know, to cut the richness!
The recipe calls for a cup of mini chocolate chips, which I don't keep on hand. I use Scharffen Berger bars in 62% Cacao Semisweet and 70% Cacao Bittersweet for my 'everyday' baking. For this bread, I chopped up just over a 1/2 cup of a 62% cacao bar.
I prefer making mini loaves, which make a perfect snack! I wrap the cute little loaves in plastic wrap. By the next morning the powdered sugar has soaked in and the bread is moist and the flavors of fruit and chocolate have become one with each other!
Next time you've got a few bananas on the counter turning brown, don't throw them out, instead, make luscious little loaves of chocolate banana blueberry bread. I promise, you won't be sorry.
Chocolate Banana Bread (With Blueberries)
2 1/2 Cups All-Purpose Flour
1/3 Cup Droste's Cocoa Powder
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1/4 Teaspoon Salt
1 1/4 Cups Sugar
1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil
3 Large Eggs
1 Heaping Cup Mashed Ripe Bananas (About 3)
1 Cup Fresh Blueberries
1 Cup Mini-Chocolate Chips or Chopped Chocolate
Note: If you want to make this without the blueberries, use 1 1/2 cups mashed bananas.
Preheat oven to 325.
Generously grease and dust loaf pans with cocoa powder.
Stir together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
In large bowl, at medium speed, beat sugar, oil, and eggs until well blended. Add bananas and beat until well blended.
At low speed, beat in flour mixture just until blended.
Stir in chocolate chips and blueberries.
Fill mini loaf pans 2/3 full and larger loaf pans 1/2 full. If you aren't using the Mini Petite Loaf Pan (or something similar), place the pans on a cookie sheet. Bake 25 to 30 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes. Remove from pans and cool completely on wire racks.
Dust with powdered sugar and serve warm with butter!
To store, wrap in plastic wrap.
Note: The recipe makes enough batter for six mini loaf pans and three 6 x 3 x 2 foil pans OR thirteen mini loaf's using this Mini Petite Loaf Pan.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Route 66 Rummage Sales
We spent the day shopping along 90 miles of rummage sales, otherwise known as the IL Route 66 Red Carpet Corridor. We left at 8:00 AM with a set amount of money and came home at 4:30 PM with $2.00. What a way to spend a Spring Day!
The first big kitchen score of the day is the pressure cooker I found in Lexington, IL. It's a Mirro-Matic 4 Quart pressure cooker. eBay is selling them for $10.00 - $15.00, this one was only a $1!! I mentioned to the lady selling the cooker that I'd never used one, but was looking forward to testing it out. To my astonishment, she went in the house and brought out her recipes for the cooker and gave them to me!! I'm looking forward to making the Country Style Potatoes!
Another good find were the Vintage Star Wars and Smurfs glasses from Burger King. I loved the Smurfs as a child and was tickled to find Baker Smurf and Smurfette. The 1977 Star Wars glasses were only $0.25.
I think that one of my favorite purchases was the umbrella for the patio, only $5.00!! I can't wait to test it out this month! The other glasses in this photo will be making another appearance here soon. I've got a drink I want to share now that I have pretty glasses to show it off!
Towards the end of the day, I talked this iron skillet down to $5.00. It doesn't even look used, but I can fix that! The small skillet was in a Free Box. It's a Hammercraft 6 1/4 Inch Skillet. I can't find a date yet, but I'm thinking it's at least 50 - 60 + years old. Anybody know?
I loved playing Lego's as a kid. I remember spending time in the toy room with my little brother building houses. These Lego's will be a great addition to the set and they were only $0.50! We also got a Bionicle Lego set.
A crossbow for $5.00. Next step.... arrows. He's looking forward to testing this out!
Rummage, garage, yard, parks, sidewalks.... sales everywhere! By the end of the day I was even getting better at haggling over price!!! Check out a few more of our good deals!!
I loved playing Lego's as a kid. I remember spending time in the toy room with my little brother building houses. These Lego's will be a great addition to the set and they were only $0.50! We also got a Bionicle Lego set.
A crossbow for $5.00. Next step.... arrows. He's looking forward to testing this out!
Rummage, garage, yard, parks, sidewalks.... sales everywhere! By the end of the day I was even getting better at haggling over price!!! Check out a few more of our good deals!!
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