Does anyone have a good banana bread recipe?

[FestiveF]

Hey guys! Finals week is approaching and I am feeling the need for some banana bread...my FAVORITE comfort food. Does anyone have a great recipe? I can't seem to find any that look very good. Thanks!!:D

[Roxy]

HA! What a coincidence. I have some bananas which are becoming very ripe and was just looking for a similar recipe myself.

I think I am going to give this one a go this weekend.
http://www.catteacorner.com/recipestea.htm#bananacoconut

[coconut]

I was actually going to make some today but never got round to it. There are some gooduns on www.vegweb.com :)

[Mr Flibble]

Banana bread is actually one of the few recipes I ever uploaded to my recipes site when I made and since abandoned it a couple of years ago ;)

It works really well, the link is here (http://recipes.offline.org.uk/index.php?action=getrecipe&id=4)

[foxytina_69]

Banana bread or muffins:

Ingredients:
1 cup white sugar
1 egg (use egg replacer equal to 1 egg)
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 ripe bananas, mashed
1/4 cup chopped walnuts/coconut/chocolate chips/or raisins
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg


Directions:
-Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Place muffin cups in muffin tin, or grease.
-Mix sugar, oil, vanilla, and egg until creamy. Add bananas and walnuts. Add flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Stir until mixed. Spoon the batter into the muffin tin or loaf pan.
-bake for 20-25 minutes if making muffins, and about an hour if making a loaf.

this is a delectable recipe. i used it to make my bf banana bread muffins, and they were fabulous. although if the mix isnt wet/runny enough, just add some water. i usually have to add about 1/2-1 cup of water to make it less dry so i can pour it.

[Artichoke47]

I have a similar recipe to Foxytina, but it calls for a strudel in the middle, and it's whole-grain.

Adapted from Soy of Cooking by Marie Oser

12 servings


3/4 c. soymilk (use soy unless you have an allergy)
1 T. lemon juice
2 c. whole-wheat pastry flour
1/4 c. soy flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/3 c. prune puree (or use prune baby food)
1 c. mashed bananas (about 2 to 3)
3/4 c. unrefined sugar
1 T. egg replacer powder
1/4 c. water
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Struesel:
1/3 c. walnut pieces
2 T. soy grits
2 T. brown sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg


Preheat oven to 350 F. Spray a 9 x 5 loaf pan with cooking spray. Place soymilk and lemon juice in a small measuring cup and set aside. Mix together the flours, soda, powder, salt, and cinnamon. Place prune puree in a large bowl. Add the mashed bananas and sweetener. Whisk together the egg replacer powder and water until foamy. Add egg replacer and vanilla extract to the prune/banana mixture. Mix thoroughly. Fold liquid ingredients into dry ingredients alternately with soymilk. Mix together the streusel ingredients. Pour half the batter into the pan. Top with streusel then the remainder of the batter. Sprinkle generously with cinnamon and nutmeg. Bake 50 to 55 min.

[Mr Flibble]

I may never understand the logic of putting egg replacer (binding agent) in a cake recipe already containing mashed banana (binding agent)

[foxytina_69]

artichoke, i used only whole wheat flour in mine, i should have said that :D which is why i have to add water as its dryer.

mr flibble, the recipe called for 1 egg, so i used egg replacer instead. regardless, it worked out great.

[Artichoke47]

Egg replacer powder is mostly tapioca flour, so you can use that if you want as the "binder." Who the heck cares what the purpose is?!!

[Mr Flibble]

Egg replacer powder is mostly tapioca flour, so you can use that if you want as the "binder." Who the heck cares what the purpose is?!!

Sorry tis just my recipe writting perfectionism creeping in ;)

I don't see the point of using unnessecary ingrediants in a recipe. The reason for this is 3 fold: a) cost - why make something cost (financial and environmental) more than it needs to? b) A lot of people on the internet don't have access to specialist vegan ingrediants c) I want to maximise the number of recipes out there which are eloquent (simple with good results) and don't require either new vegans or people giving it a go to source and purchase ingrediants which they arn't used to buying. Veganism needs to be as simple as possible if its to win more support, and if the average lazy meat eater eats one less animal based meal as a year as a result then I'll be happy.

From my own experience of using and what I've read, mashed banana is an excellent binding agent, which is the purpose of eggs in cake. Thus I don't see why egg replacer is also required. I can understand the desire for people veganising existing recipes to replace directly like for like - i do it myself when in the initial stages, but as we all know non vegan chefs/cooks/recipe authors are absolute masters of sticking completely unnessecary animal ingrediants into what should be vegan products.

[grail]

hmmm...didn't know that about tapioca flour....that's good news, because tapioca flour is a lot easier to get than some funky substitute!

[Roxy]

HA! What a coincidence. I have some bananas which are becoming very ripe and was just looking for a similar recipe myself.

I think I am going to give this one a go this weekend.
http://www.catteacorner.com/recipestea.htm#bananacoconut

I made this one today and Mmmmmmm! It's good! I did have to add a little extra moisture to the recipe as the dough was very very dry (so I added a bit of water). Next time, I'm going to add some chopped walnuts.

[Jacqui]

I made this one today and Mmmmmmm! It's good! I did have to add a little extra moisture to the recipe as the dough was very very dry (so I added a bit of water). Next time, I'm going to add some chopped walnuts.
That recipe looks good. :)
I'd like to give it a try, but what is pastry flour? Just plain flour?

[foxytina_69]

with my banana bread muffin recipe, i put the oven on 325 and baked them for 30 minutes. they came out perfect. yummm.

[FestiveF]

Foxy,
I made your recipe during finals and it turned out GREAT!! It was the best thing ever to have to munch on during my 10 hour library days!! Thanks so much! All of the other recipes look great too, I'll have to give them a try!:D

[Roxy]

That recipe looks good. :)
I'd like to give it a try, but what is pastry flour? Just plain flour?

To tell you the truth, I don't know. I never heard of it, or saw it until I moved to Canada.

You know what else they don't have here? Self-raising flour. I haven't been able to bake any of my Aussie recipes that use SR flour, because I don't know what to use instead lol. :rolleyes:

[Jacqui]

Thanks.
Maybe if I leave out the baking pwd, and use half plain and half s/r flour. I'll give it a try.:)

[foxytina_69]

Foxy,
I made your recipe during finals and it turned out GREAT!! It was the best thing ever to have to munch on during my 10 hour library days!! Thanks so much! All of the other recipes look great too, I'll have to give them a try!:D

yay im so glad you liked it festive :D did u make it into muffins? and did u add anything yummy to it? like raisins or coconut or anything?

[foxytina_69]

i forgot to add that if im making this into a loaf instead of muffins, i bake it at 325 for a little over an hour rather than 350 for an hour.

i also add about a teaspoon of vanilla extract to the mix.