This is not hyperbole. I am certain that this banana bread was thought up by Zeus himself. It is other wordly, like you couldn’t believe. It’s incredibly simple, but would make anybody fall in love with you. Since acquiring this recipe I have been on the lookout for banana bread competitions, because I’m sure this could win me any number of awards. Sharing this recipe with the internet may be the single greatest thing for humankind that I will ever accomplish in my life. Here it goes.
I veganized this recipe from a book called something like Recipes from Viriginia, Georgia, and North Carolina, a bizarrely obscure cookbook of home recipes found at my second family’s home. Now, just incase the title didn’t make it clear, this is deep south baking, at its most unhealthy. That’s just the price you pay for delectable. It was super easy to veganize, I just swapped butter with Earth Balance and the egg with an extra banana. However, once I got home I decided to add an egg worth of egg replacer powder as well as cinnamon and vanilla extract.
Ingredients
3-4 very ripe bananas
1 egg worth of egg replacer powder (1 1/2 tsp powder + 2 tbsp water, whisked)
1/2 cup melted earth balance butter
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
We start with the bananas. I recently had a banana bread revelation. Not all bananas can make the long trip from South America and Southeast Asia in the pristine condition you see them in in the produce section, unfortunately some age more quickly than others and get beat up along the way, and these get hidden in the back of the grocery store as there is no convalescent home for bananas. Instead of planning your banana bread many days in advance and waiting in agony for your bananas to over ripen, at the grocery store find the produce manager and ask for the beat up and overripe bananas in the back, and she’ll find them and give them to you for a discount. Bingo! Now you can go straight home and get to banana bread making–what a great day!
Preheat to 350 degrees
Mash the bananas until there are no big lumps. Mix in the sugar, melted butter, and extract. Sift in the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Mix until combined. Pour into a greased or parchment paper lined loaf pan and bake for 1 hour (or, if you’re like me and for some reason can never locate your loaf pan, an 8×8 or 9×9 greased/lined pan will work fine, just shorten the baking time to 45 minutes). This recipe makes one pan/loaf, but I doubled it in hopes that it wouldn’t disappear as quickly.
You’re welcome.
Radically Delicious 