Outrageous Banana Bread
A recipe from Create Cooking Challenge 2017 winner Buki Elegbede.
Recipe Ingredients
- - 1 cup brown sugar
- - ½ cup vegetable oil
- - 2 large eggs
- - ¾ cup ripe bananas
- - ½ cup buttermilk or sour cream
- - 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- - ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- - 2 cups all-purpose flour
- - 1 teaspoon baking powder
- - 1 teaspoon baking soda
- - 1 teaspoon salt
- Topping
- - 2 tablespoons dried banana
- - 2 tablespoons granola
- - ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- - 1 teaspoon brown sugar
Recipe Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan.
- Cream the sugar and oil in a large mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs one at a time.
- In a small bowl or on countertop, mash the bananas with a fork. Mix in the buttermilk (or sour cream), nutmeg and cinnamon.
- In another bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Add the banana mixture and dry ingredients alternating between wet and dry. Mix just until flour disappears.
- In a small zipper lock bag, add dried banana, granola, cinnamon and sugar and crush with rolling pin or small fry pan.
- Pour batter into prepared pan, sprinkle topping over batter and bake 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Set aside to cool on a rack for 15 minutes.
- Remove bread from pan, invert onto rack and cool completely before serving.