Every single time I bake banana bread, I wind up using a new recipe. This time, I only had two bananas, so I added pumpkin in lieu of a third. From there, I made it up as I went along…brown sugar, walnuts and even espresso made it into the batter. The only thing missing was chocolate chips — otherwise, this recipe is definitely a keeper!
- 2 large ripe bananas, mashed
- 1/3 cup pumpkin
- 1/3 cup melted butter
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 shot espresso (optional)
- pinch of salt
- 1 1/4 cups flour
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Simply add all the ingredients in the order listed, mix and pour into a loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour and ta da! Delicious, moist (yup, I went there) banana bread that’s worth repeating.
May 5, 2012 at 6:10 pm
I love recipes like this. They are so fun because I can’t ever imagine how it will taste good because the ingredients can be sort of random but then the bread is wonderful!!! Ahh.
May 21, 2012 at 3:26 pm
My grandma used to make the best banana bread – when I finally got the recipe from her she had TWO CUPS of oil in the batter – no wonder it was so good! Hope you had a great weekend!
September 24, 2012 at 9:23 am
Espresso AND banana bread? I am alllll over that. I bet a smidge of cinnamon would be incredible too. Thanks so much for this recipe