Black Bottom Banana Bread Recipes

BLACK-BOTTOM BANANA BARS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Stir in the bananas. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture and mix well. , Divide batter in half. Add cocoa to half; spread into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Spoon remaining batter on top and, if desired, swirl with a knife to marble batter. , Bake at 350° until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

BLACK BOTTOM BANANA BARS

Steps:

• 1. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Stir in the bananas. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture and mix well.
• 2. Divide batter in half. Add cocoa to half; spread into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. ( if adding chocolate chips, add now ). Spoon remaining batter on top and swirl with a knife.
• 3. Bake at 350° for 25 minutes or until the a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool a wire rack.

THE MOST BASIC BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 ºF. Butter and flour a 8½" x 4½" loaf pan OR a 9"x5" loaf pan, then line the bottom with a rectangle of parchment paper. Set aside.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
• In a large bowl, using an electric hand mixer, cream together the butter and sugar for at least 5 minutes until light and fluffy. Be sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl often to make sure the mixture is evenly whipped.
• Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing in between each addition. Mix in the vanilla.
• Add the mashed banana. Mix well, scraping the bottom and sides to incorporate everything.
• Dump in the flour and fold it in with your spatula.
• Pour the batter into the prepared loaf cake pan. Smooth the top to even it out.
• Bake for 60-65 minutes for a 9x5" loaf or up to 75 minutes for an 8.5"x4.5" pan, until the edges are a deep golden brown and a cake tester inserted into the middle comes out clean.

BREAD MACHINE - BANANA BREAD RECIPE (CLASSIC VERSION)

Steps:

• Prep Time - 10 minutes
• Baking Time - 1:40 hours
• Bread Machine Settings - Sweet Quick Bread, Light Color, 2 lb
• Beat the eggs.
• Mash bananas with a fork.
• Soften the butter in microwave.
• Add the eggs, butter & bananas into the bread pan and then add the other ingredients. Try to follow order of the ingredients listed above so that liquid ingredients are placed in the bread pan first and the dry ingredients second. Be aware that the bread pan should be removed from the bread machine before you start to add any ingredients. This helps to avoid spilling any material inside the bread machine. The bread machine should always be unplugged when removing the bread pan.
• Put the bread pan (with all of the ingredients) back into the bread machine, close the bread machine lid and then plug in the bread machine.
• Enter the bread machine settings (Sweet Quick Bread, Light Color) and press the start button. FYI - Before making this recipe, please read the tips section below for more information regarding the sweet quick bread setting used to make banana breads. The setting may be called "quick bread", "quick bread/cake", "cake", etc. However, some manufacturers use the "quick bread" setting are for rapid sandwich-type breads that use yeast (and not for quick breads such as banana bread that use baking powder/soda). Therefore, this setting can be very confusing... but the tips section below will help you to find the right setting to use on your machine. You need to enter the correct banana bread setting used by your SPECIFIC bread machine model or the banana bread could be under or overcooked.
• Optional - If you want to add chopped walnuts or mini chocolate chips to enhance this basic banana bread recipe, please add them after the first bread machine mixing cycle and before the second mixing (final mixing).
• When the bread machine has finished baking the bread, unplug the bread machine, remove the bread pan and place it on a wooden cutting board. Use oven mitts when removing the bread pan because it will be very hot!
• Optional - Use a long wooden skewer to test if the banana bread is completely cooked. Wear oven mitts as the bread pan will be hot. See the tips section for more details on this classic "toothpick" test.
• After removing the bread pan from the bread machine, you should let the banana bread stay within the warm bread pan on a wooden cutting board for 10 minutes (as this finishes the baking process) before you remove the banana bread from the bread pan. Wear oven mitts.
• After 10 the minute "cooldown", you should remove the banana bread from the bread pan and place the banana bread on a wire cooling rack to finish cooling. Use oven mitts when removing the bread.
• Don't forget to remove the mixing paddle if it is stuck in the bread. Use oven mitts as the mixing paddle could be hot.
• You should allow the banana bread to completely cool before cutting. This can take up to 2 hours. Otherwise, the banana bread will break (crumble) more easily when cut.

BLACK-BOTTOM BANANA BARS

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar.
• Add egg and vanilla; beat until thoroughly combined.
• Blend in the bananas.
• Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture and mix well.
• Divide batter in half.
• Add cocoa to half; spread into a greased 13-in x 9-in pan.
• Spoon remaining batter on top and swirl with a knife.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes or until the bars test done.
• Cool.

BLACK BOTTOM BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Grease and flour a 9X5 loaf pan and set aside.
• In a large bowl of an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar on high speed, about 1 minute.
• Stop mixer and add eggs.
• Continue beating until fluffy, about 1 minute.
• Add milk and stir until combined.
• Remove from mixer.
• In another mixing bowl, sift together flour, baking soda and salt.
• With a wooden spoon, stir flour-mixture and mashed bananas into the creamed butter-mixture until combined.
• Stir in chocolate chips and pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 55 to 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of bread comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and place pan on wire rack for 10 minutes.
• Gently remove loaf from pan and cool completely on wire rack.

OVALTINE BLACK-BOTTOM BANANA BREAD RECIPE - (3.5/5)

Steps:

• Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; set aside. In a medium bowl blend butter and sugar; add egg and vanilla. Blend until thoroughly combined. Add bananas. Add dry ingredients and mix well. Divide batter in half. Add chocolate Ovaltine to half of the batter and spread in bottom of greased large loaf pan or 9x9 baking dish. Spread remaining batter on top . Bake in preheated oven at 325 for 25 min.