Whole Wheat Banana Nut Bread Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 F degrees. Lightly grease a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan.
• Beat together the butter, sugar, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla in a medium bowl until smooth. Add the banana, honey and eggs, beating until smooth. Add the flour and nuts, stirring until smooth. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan and let it rest at room temperature, uncovered for 10 minutes.
• Bake the bread for 50 minutes. Lay a piece of foil gently across the top and bake until a cake tester (like a toothpick) inserted into the center comes out clean, 10 to 15 minutes more. Remove the bread from the oven and allow it to cool for 10 minutes before turning it out of the pan onto a rack to cool completely.

Steps:

• Melt butter.
• Put the butter, sugar, bananas and eggs in a blender. Blend until nice and smooth.
• Now transfer to a mixing bowl.
• In a separate bowl, stir together flours, salt, and baking soda.
• Add dry ingredients to banana mixture alternately with hot water.
• Stir in chopped nuts.
• Cut a piece of waxed or parchment paper the size of the bottom of your loaf pan.
• (This helps the loaf come out in one piece while still warm).
• Put the paper in the loaf pan and spray the pan well with non-stick spray.
• Scoop the batter into the pan.
• Bake in a preheated 325 degree F oven for one hour and 10 minutes.
• Test with a cake tester to make to make sure it's done.
• Sometimes it takes a little bit longer.
• If the top gets too brown, cover it with a piece of aluminum foil so it doesn't get too much darker.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Grease bottoms only of 2 (9x5- or 8x4-inch) loaf pans with shortening or cooking spray.
• In large bowl, beat all ingredients with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds. Beat on medium speed 45 seconds, scraping bowl frequently. Pour batter into pans.
• Bake 55 to 65 minutes or until toothpick inserted halfway between center and edge of pan comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Loosen sides of loaves from pans. Remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 2 hours, before slicing.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a large bowl cream butter and sugar together until very light and creamy.
• Beat in egg.
• Add vanilla extract and blend, set aside.
• Into a medium bowl or on a sheet of wax paper sift together whole wheat, unbleached flours and baking soda.
• In a small bowl blend buttermilk and mashed banana.
• Add dry ingredients alternately with the banana mixture to the butter mixture.
• Stirring just enought to combine well.
• Stir in walnuts and chocolate chips, raisins if you like.
• Turn into a greased and floured 9 x 5 loaf pan or bundt cake pan.
• Bake for 50-55 minutes on middle rack.
• Until tooth pick comes out clean.
• Let cool in pan for 5- 10 minutes.
• Remove from pan and cool on rack.
• After it is cooled just a light dusting with icing sugar if you like.