Banana bread is one of my favorites, as a kid I loved walking into the house & smelling it backing away. I still love that smell. It warms me from the inside out & makes me feel like a kid again. However, when I do make banana bread I also make Apple Spice Bread because Mamacita is allergic to bananas. I don’t want her to be left out of having a piece of bread. In fact, I made both the banana & apple spice bread on the same day. It’s pretty simple to make both & for those who aren’t allergic it’s delicious. Everyone deserves to have a freshly baked, warm, slice of quick bread with a pat of butter that just melts into it & this bread does just that. Oh, so good.
What You Need:
2 Cup All Purpose Flour
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
4–5 Ripened Bananas
3/4 Cup Brown Sugar
1 1/2 Stick of Unsalted Butter
2 Eggs
1 Teaspoon Vanilla
1/2 Cup of Walnuts (chopped)
Topping:
1/4 Cup of Brown Sugar
1/2 Teaspoon Cinnamon
1/4 Cup Walnuts (chopped)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
Cook for approximately 1 hr– 1 hr 15 minutes
How To Put It Together:
See these don’t look so appealing. However, these will become a sweet bread soon! Another great way to have an on the go snack, breakfast or lunch or heck dinner. Go wild! Just don’t eat the entire pan in one day, your hips won’t forgive you.
After you sift together all your dry ingredients in a separate bowl put those aside. Then cream together on a medium-high speed your eggs, butter, & vanilla. Once those are creamed together add in your bowl of sifted dry ingredients slowly while the mixer is on. SLOWLY! Too fast is a face full of your dry ingredients. Then add your bananas into the mix. I like to add a few bananas at a time.
Nut time! No, not me. Well, not me this time. This time it’s all about the food. The walnuts are going into the mix. They are chopped walnuts. If you don’t like walnuts you can substitute another nut or you can leave them out all together.
Add your batter into a buttered & lightly floured pan. You can use two 8x4 bread loaf pans or one 9x13 cake pan. I used a cake pan here. Once your pan(s) are filled sprinkle your topping on it. I mix my topping with a mini-chopper. After this put it in the oven bake for about 1hr to 1 hr 15minutes at 350 degrees. I recommend checking it around the 1 hr mark, simply use a toothpick or a knife & insert it into the bread. When you pull it out if it’s clean your bread is done, if not then let it bake a little longer (check again 10–15 minutes later).
Now it’s done, let it cool & get ready to dive in. Serve it up & be prepared to fend off the family who might have been waiting (asking ever FIVE minutes “is it ready yet?”) and is SO ready to eat a piece. Again if you have someone who can’t have a particular quick bread, like Mamacita, in your house it’s really simple to make a batch of something they can have at the same time. You already have the oven on & if your already chopping nuts and softening butter why not make more?
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A friend mentioned you can find companies who make specialty items that will ship anywhere & I thought hmmm…what about cupcakes? I love the idea of sending cupcakes, I mean it’s not something you get surprised by every day in the mail. And as y’all know I LOVE online browsing. So, of course, I set off to look up some amazing cupcakes. I have no idea how these S’mores Cupcakes taste from Crumbs Bake Shop, a shop that has no idea I exist but has made my day by just looking at their cupcakes. I think every one I saw made my mouth water. It’s also truly wonderful idea to brighten a day with cupcakes. If you head over to their site you’ll be dazzled by all the choices, I swear I think I gained weight just looking at them.
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Every now & again I decide to make Apple Spice Bread to break up the days. I love the way it warms me from the inside with all the delicious spices. Especially when it’s fresh out of the oven, just cooled enough to cut & eat with a pat of butter. Oh, wow! It’s good stuff. It’s also a dish that everyone here loves. It can be a snack, dessert or breakfast on the go in our family.
What You Need:
1 1/2 Cup of Apple Sauce (regular & unsweetened)
1 Cup Brown Sugar
1 Stick of Unsalted Butter (softened)
2 Eggs
1 Teaspoon Vanilla
2 Cup of All Purpose Flour
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1 Teaspoon Cinnamon
1/2 Teaspoon Nutmeg
1/2 Teaspoon All Spice
1/4 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Cup Walnuts (chopped)
Topping:
1/4 Cup of Brown Sugar
1/2 Teaspoon Cinnamon
1/4 Cup Walnuts (chopped)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
Cook for approximately 1 hr– 1 hr 15 minutes
How To Put it Together:
Simple. Sift dry ingredients together in a bowl (flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and all spices). Put the bowl aside while you cream together other ingredients.
In a mixer add in your apple sauce, eggs, vanilla, brown sugar, butter (it should be softened). Cream together in a mixer on medium-high until everything is incorporated and creamy. Now add in the bowl slowly, you want to have these ingredients incorporate fully into the creamy mixture.
Then add in your chopped walnuts. I use a mini-food processor for my walnuts, but you could chop them by hand as well. If you don’t like walnuts or are allergic the leave them out.
Make your topping: simply chop your walnuts & mix them together with brown sugar & cinnamon. Again I used a mini-food processor ease.
Pour into your greased & floured pans. You can use a tablespoon of butter to grease & then about a 1 tablespoon of flour shake it around in the pan to the pan is coated. You can use two 8x4 bread loaf pans or one 9x13 cake pan. I used a cake pan here. Once your pan(s) are filled sprinkle your topping on it. Then pop in the oven bake for about 1hr to 1 hr 15minutes at 350 degrees. I’d recommend checking it around the 1 hr mark, simply use a toothpick or a knife & insert it into the bread. When you pull it back it out if it is clean then your bread is done, if not then let it bake a little longer (check again 10–15 minutes later).
It definitely has more of puffy top to it in the cake pan then it would in a bread pan. A bread pan would have given it a more even appearance, but I kind of like the difference in look. But then again I’m weird as my family often tells me. Point being I made apple spice bread in a cake pan & got some weird looks from the family. With a few variations to the recipe I could have just made apple spice cake, but no I decided to make a big old bread in a cake pan. And yes it was good. Very good. Well worth the weird looks.
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