Banana Bread
My experience with banana bread or banana cake recipes is that there's a
trade-off. The ones the most intense banana flavor tend to be moist,
dense, and pudding-like, not quite making it as a cake. The ones that
have the nicest, richest, cakiest crumb, lack banana. For the best
compromises, I like the recipe in Silver Palate for a banana cake that
succeeds as a cake and is wonderful with cream cheese icing, and I like
the Joy of Cooking recipe for going a little stronger on the bananas. I
give poor marks to the Laurel's Kitchen recipe for being too dense and
not cakey enough.
--Lia
kilikini wrote:
> I'm sure this has been covered 100 million times, but I was wondering which
> recipe for banana bread was your absolute favorite? We picked up 5 bunches
> of over-ripe bananas today at the produce market for $.75 total. I'm
> wanting banana bread and I can't find my mom's recipe.
>
> Yes, I did the Google. Do you have ANY idea how many recipes are out there?
> And how different they all are?
>
> I want to hear your favorites. No holds barred. Bring them on, please.
>
> kili
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