Peanut butter banana bread

About every 8 weeks I get rostered to prepare the morning tea  at church. I started saving up my bananas to make a banana loaf.  This time round I had 5 bananas riping, so I decided to make 2 loaves.  I usually make a plain banana loaf but I wanted to make something different. Googled and decided to make this loaf from www.panera.com

I doubled the recipe to make 1 big and 1 medium loaf.  Recipe below is for 1 loaf.

 

Ingredients

Serves 10

1½ cups all-purpose flour ¾ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon baking powder ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg

½ cup creamy peanut butter (I used crunchy PB instead) ¼ cup butter, softened ½ cup sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 3 ripe bananas, mashed (about 1½ cups)

Directions

Step 1.

Heat the oven to 350ºF. I used 160 C and I lined the loaf tin with baking paper.        

Step 2.

Whisk together the flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg.

Step 3.

Beat the peanut butter, butter, and sugar with a mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Beat in the eggs one at a time on medium speed, and then beat in the vanilla extract. Beat in the flour mixture on low speed. Fold in the mashed bananas.

 

      

Step 4.

Spoon the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes. Cool the bread in the pan for 10 minutes; then remove it to a rack to cool completely.

 

 

Verdict: A few of my tasters couldn't taste the peanut butter.  One of them tasted chocolate in it.  I find the slice very moist.  It was still good eaten a couple days after I baked it. 

Jam and Fruit Loaf for Morning Tea

My workmate brought in a recipe book that belong to his wife's deceased aunt.  It's a pretty old cookbook and it's published back in the days when cookbooks are just list of ingredients with brief instructions and has no pictures.

I picked a loaf recipe and tried it out. I read the recipe a few times to make sure I didn't left out anything.

Here is the recipe:

1 cup sugar
4 oz butter ( After working on the conversion, I replaced with half cup oil)
1/2 cup jam (I used Strawberry jam)
1 cup sultanas
2 Tbsp golden syrup
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 tsp baking soda
1 cup water

Instructions:
Simmer above ingredients 5 minutes stirring all the time.

 

 



Fold 3 and 1/2 cups flour sifted with 1 tsp baking powder.  Bake in loaf tin 350 F for 1 hour.



Note: I used a large silicon loaf tin.  I used temperature 160C on fan bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes (checking to ensure my skewer comes out clean).

 

 

It is a dense loaf when I sliced them it feels a little hard on the crust but still soft in side. I got 12 slices out of the loaf.  

 

 

I buttered my slice and had it with a cup of chai :)

Verdict:   It was well received, by 3 pm, the loaf has been finished.