Bundt Pan Banana Bread

My banana bread is doing double duty for dinner tonight!

First of all, it's serving as the centerpiece of the table

 on top of my new "old" breadboard.

I love how huge it is...plenty of room for a large cake plate, serving 

dishes and something to spread on the bread.

Since I'm serving this bread for dessert, I'm replacing

the typical butter with some homemade buttercream frosting.

See that frosting getting all melty?  The bread was still

warm when I ate it.  The cook has to test the food before

it's served, right? ha.

Yum.

Bundt Pan Banana Bread

4 ripe bananas, sliced

1 1/2 c sugar

4 eggs

1 stick of butter, melted

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Mix above ingredients in electric mixer.

In a separate bowl, sift...

3 1/2 c flour

4 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon nutmeg

Add the dry ingredients to the mixer, alternating with

1/2 c buttermilk

Mix on low just until combined.

Bake at 350 in a greased bundt pan

for 55-60 minutes.  Toothpick test.

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Butterscotch Banana Bread

I had over ripe bananas to use up this week and happened to

think butterscotch chips might be good in it.  So, I looked online

to see if it had ever been done before or if I was about to

create something original!  Well, it turns out that this combination

has been around for years!  Who knew?

This particular recipe was given a 5 star review so I chose it.

It was wonderful, moist, and such a nice change from

plain old banana bread.  I will certainly be making it again!

The house smelled wonderful while it was baking!

I had enough bananas to double the recipe and make two

loaves.  One is going to work with The Mister.

That is, if we don't dig into it before he takes it!

The butterscotch chips melt into the bread as it bakes!

Butterscotch Banana Bread

For One 9" Loaf

2 ripe bananas, mashed

3/4 c sugar

2 eggs

1/4 c butter, melted

1 t vanilla

Mix above ingredients well in mixer.

In a separate bowl, sift....

1 3/4 c flour

2 t baking powder

1/2 t baking soda

1/2 t salt

1 t cinnamon

1/2 t nutmeg

Add dry ingredients to the mixer, alternating with

1/4 c milk.  

Mix just until combined.

Stir in 6 oz butterscotch chips

and 1 c chopped pecans.

(reserve a little to sprinkle on top before baking)

Bake at 350 in greased 9" bread pan

for 50-55 minutes.  Toothpick test.

It's pretty, too, isn't it?

Original recipe from HERE.

It's better the 2nd day, if you can wait. :)

Enjoy!

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Banana Toffee Crunch Muffins

I was mixing up my normal recipe for banana bread and thought I'd do something

a little different.  I added a few handfuls of chopped pecans and 1/2 a bag of Heath's English Toffee Bits to the batter, 

reserving a generous amount for sprinkling on the tops.

 I used extra large muffin tins to make monster sized muffins.

Oh yes, I'll be doing this again!

Banana Toffee Crunch Muffins

1/2 c softened butter

2 c sugar

3 eggs

3 ripe bananas

1 t vanilla

2 c flour

1 t baking soda

pinch of salt

1/2 bag of Heath English Toffee Bits

1 c chopped pecans, coarsely chopped

Cream butter and sugar.  Beat in eggs, bananas and vanilla.

Add flour, soda and salt.  Mix well.  Stir in part of the bits and nuts,

spoon into greased muffin pan and sprinkle with reserved topping.

Bake 25-30 minutes until tooth pick comes out clean.

Makes 18 regular sized muffins.

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