People come in and out of our lives all the time. Some people we wish would disappear from our lives. Some people we want to keep in our lives and situations can make it difficult to keep them in our lives. Laura is one that I love having in my life. If I’d had a daughter, I’d have wanted one like Laura. She is lovely.
I don’t know where she got this recipe for Banana Bread Cake but it is my standard by which I gauge all others since the day Laura bake this for us. It is just sweet enough, absolutely beautifully moist like banana bread should be and gorgeous! AND there is NO fat...ok there is fat in the egg yolks but there is NO oil, butter, or shortening.
I’ve been thinking about doing this for a long time now for a couple of reasons:
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✦Because Laura is special to me.
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✦Because Baking Soda ask me about a banana bread recipe and I promised “someday”.
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✦And best of all for you, because this is really great Banana Bread/Cake.
So, the other day when Sue, as in SueCooksWild, mentioned she had baked this and had a post just ready to go I said let’s do it together. So, for two takes on this banana cake bread, trot or click on over to her place when you get the chance. So, yes that’s why the bananas don’t have spots on them, I went out and bought them specifically to bake this bread.
Laura’s recipe calls for walnuts, I’ve always used almonds for some reason. Her recipe calls for 1/2 c brown sugar and 1 c white sugar, I just always use all brown sugar and often times use only 1 well packed and heaping cup of the brown. I just like the extra punch of brown sugar but for this time I used the whole amount. All brown sugar makes for a beautifully golden loaf.
I mix this by hand, the Kitchen Aid gets to rest this one out. The only special gadget I use to make this is my pastry blender fork . It’s on my gadget page here. It made short work of the very firm bananas.
My original intent on this baking was to throw in a bunch of blueberries I had. I called Sue and we were talking on the speaker phone while I was mixing this up and as is the case so often when we are together cooking, we got into doing some pretty heavy duty carrying on. I put the bread in the oven and started cleaning up. I forgot the blueberries! I opened the oven. The edges were already starting to cook. I took a handful of the blueberries and dropped them on the top. I poked them a little into the batter and closed the door again. So, the only blueberries you can see on top are the only blueberries in this bread/cake.
Laura’s Banana Cake Bread
1.5 c brown sugar
2 c flour (I used 1 all purpose & 1 whole wheat)
1 t baking powder
2 eggs
1/2 c buttermilk
1 t baking soda dissolved in buttermilk
1 t vanilla
4 ripe bananas mashed
1 c nuts chopped
Oven at 350°
Mix together the dry ingredients: sugar, flour, baking powder and nuts.
Mix eggs, buttermilk with dissolved baking soda and vanilla being careful to blend thoroughly. 
Add mashed bananas.
Add mashed bananas.Stir together the wet & dry ingredients just enough to moisten.
Pour into Pam sprayed pans of choice. I think this bakes best in the mini loaf pans
Bake 25 to 30 minutes
You could ice it with cream cheese or sprinkle it with powdered sugar but I really think that ruins it. This bread/cake is spectacular all by itself! I’m really sorry I forgot to put the of blueberries into the batter, it would have been great. Now I guess I’ll have to do it again. Ahhhh, too bad.
Put the tea pot on! This is really good!
The Daughter I didn’t have...
Saturday, August 5, 2006
