Wednesday, April 17, 2013

The Best Brown Butter Banana Bread

Last week I decided to treat my husband to a special breakfast loaf, instead of my usual low-sguar, low-fat, gluten-free loaf. He loves banana bread, so I thought I'd kick it up a notch and use brown butter in the loaf.

 

This bread was so delicious, I honestly felt kind of guilty eating it for breakfast. My sweet-toothed husband absolutely loved it. It was moist, sweet, and had this decadent nutty flavor from the brown butter. It tasted like a cupcake almost. I just love banana bread.



You can easily swap out the whole wheat flour for an all-purpose gluten free flour if you want it to be gluten free. I just felt like spoiling my husband with a deliciously fluffy gluten-filled loaf of banana bread.



Ingredients:

1/2 cup unsalted butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup maple syrup
2 ripe, mashed bananas (about 1 cup)
3 eggs (room temp)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups whole wheat flour (or gf all-purpose flour)
1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a heat-proof glass add brown sugar and maple syrup, and set aside. In a small pot, heat the butter on medium-low heat, swirling every once in a while, for 5 to 10 minutes, or until the butter starts to brown and turn an amber color. Carefully transfer butter into heat-proof glass with sugar, mix, and allow to cool.

Once butter and sugar has cooled, add eggs, vanilla, and mashed bananas. In a seperate bowl add flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Incorporate wet ingredients into dry until just mixed. Pour into a 9 x 5 loaf pan and bake for 55-60 minutes (watch closely, as mine went from not quite done to almost overcooked in a matter of minutes).





11 comments:

  1. Wow! Just made this bread today. Some of the best banana bread I've ever had. So glad I ran across it on Pinterest and found your blog!

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  2. I lost my favorite recipe for banana bread and happened on yours. Sounds DELISH. I'm right at it!!
    Sara

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  3. Please make this printer friendly-----It sounds a tasty and a healthy recipe.

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  4. Um...whole wheat flour is FULL of gluten, so unless you want to be really ill (for those with celiac's disease), you are going to need to use a gluten-free flour...to the authors of this recipe, you might want to rethink the name or the category at the very least. Just my opinion.

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    1. Hello,

      Thank you for your comment! As you can see if you read the post above, I wrote "You can easily swap out the whole wheat flour for an all-purpose gluten free flour if you want it to be gluten free. I just felt like spoiling my husband with a deliciously fluffy gluten-filled loaf of banana bread."

      I know that whole wheat bread is full of gluten. This recipe is under "Gluten Free OPTION" category. Thanks for your opinion though.

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  5. what is brown butter

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    1. brown butter is just regular butter that has been heated until it turns a brown, caramel-y color. It's absolutely delicious and has a unique nutty flavor

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  6. I made the banana bread tonight with gluten free flour and I also added walnuts. It was delicious!

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  7. Glad to see a comment from someone who actually made it gluten free. I may try it now! Thanks for posting.

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  8. I saw on another site that a trick was to roast the bananas first until they are caramelized, and to grease the baking dish only 3/4 of the way up, so that the top will be curved, not flat. Don't overmix,or it will be tough.

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