You guessed it, we had 1/one very ripe banana in the fruit basket - the kind that is silently screaming 'you had b-e-t-t-e-r put me to good use, I do NOT want to end up in your friggin compost pile'. Um, ok, no pressure...
I have never baked a 1/one banana banana bread, so, at 9:15pm I got to work. And it worked out!
Go try it, and tell me what you think. Sounds like a contest doesn't it? Hmm, ok. Bake this. Leave me a comment about your experience with this recipe. In two weeks from today I will pick a winner.
GRAND PRIZE: A $10 donation to UNICEF in your name.
Remember: I'm all about what's on hand, and substitutions. Have fun with this; don't stress about what you do, or don't have. Use this as a guideline, and see what happens.
1/ONE BANANA BREAD
1 ripe banana
1/2 lime
100 ml apple pear sauce
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup spelt flour
4 generous tsp cocoa
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup chocolate chips
In one bowl, mash banana, add the juice of 1/2 lime, mix together (I count to twenty), add apple pear sauce, add sugar, add 2 eggs, and oil, and mix together until it looks all blended.
In another bowl add both flours, add cocoa, add salt, add baking powder, mix with a fork (count to about 100); then add chocolate chips and mix just a bit (count to 20).
Then add wet mixture to dry mixture. Don't over mix, but make sure all flour seems to be wet.
Add your batter to a greased up loaf pan.
Bake at 300 for 55 minutes. Note: I normally bake my banana bread at 300 for 1 hr and 15 minutes, but this one took less time, due to less moisture from only one banana.
See you in two weeks!
PS the kids and I are thick into learning our numbers, letters and words on-the-go, come have fun with us at our flickr page.
Thursday, April 3
1/One Banana Bread
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12 comments:
this is such a great idea - i always hate not using that last lone banana!
glad you agree Lori -- in my 20+ years of baking, I've done too many good ripe bananas a diserive ;-)
I love the alphabet and number photos. What a cool idea.
this weekend for sure!
You are a FREAKING genius! That's all I have to say.
I'm so sorry ... I just realized that I haven't visited you in a long time because I'm so used to our emails (and you weren't in my feed burner, which is the only way blogs get read (or half read) around this house!
I see it now ... 1 Naner Recipes: Using up the leftovers. : )
Melissa, I appreciate that you like our ABC fun.
Amy, I won't hold you too it because I know how full your hands are...but hopefully you WILL try it soon.
Shawn, thank you so much for this fun response; yours is truly the best use of the word ‘freaking’ I’ve ever seen. Hope this recipe helps save the life of all your future ripe bananas.
This looks like a great recipe! I am hoping to have a really ripe banana by this weekend so I can try it! :)
That looks delicious! I think the chocolate chips are probably the big secret when there's only one banana!
We had to import ABC of Canada. Maybe there will be a black market for it down here.
momof 3 and Eva,
thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment! Hoping you get a chance to bake this soon.
yum - i can't wait to try this. i think i have all the ingredients (: will be good for a group outing in the outdoors tomorrow (: gracias!
so i made this a few weeks ago after my post. yum! except i had many more bananas to use, so i used 3 or 4 and instead of apple pear sauce, just used applesauce and used reg. floor since i didn't have spelt. i made two loaves (i have had banana bread run over on me before (: ) and cooked them at a higher temp for 30-40 mins. gave a loaf to friends for their little one's baptism. need to make some more (:
Christine, you win the $10 donation to UNICEF!
In light of the Myanmar situation, I'd like to donate $50 or more, should it be to UNICEF, or is there another aid agency that's in there now (Red Cross, MSF)?
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