Blue Ribbon Banana Bread Recipe 375

BECKIE'S BLUE RIBBON BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Beat butter and sugar together until creamy and well blended. Add eggs and beat until fluffy. Break banana into chunks and add to sugar/butter mixture. Blend til bananas are mashed. Add flour, soda, nutmeg, and salt alternately with soured milk. Add vanilla. Mix until smooth and all ingredients are combined.Put into a well greased 5" x 9" loaf pan, top with about a tablespoon of cinnamon sugar. Bake in 350 degree oven about 55 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.Beckie's Blue Ribbon Banana Bread also makes the cutest little loaves, perfect for snacking or gifting. This recipe makes one 3.5" x 7.5" and three 3" x 5.5" mini loaves. Reduce baking time to about 40 minutes.*Some sources suggest the perfect ratio of cinnamon to sugar is 1/4 cup sugar to 1 Tbsp cinnamon. I say, follow your tastebuds!

BLUE RIBBON BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• In a large mixing bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Set aside.
• In a second mixing bowl, whisk together butter, brown sugar, eggs, and sour cream. Stir in mashed bananas.
• Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well. Stir in toasted nuts, if using.
• Pour batter into well-greased 9x5-inch loaf pan. Bake for 55 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean.
• Cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then remove loaf from pan and allow to finish cooling on a wire rack.

BLUEBERRY BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 3 small loaf pans.
• Mix flour, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl.
• Beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color. Add 1 egg and allow to blend into the butter mixture before adding the second egg along with vanilla extract. Beat mashed bananas thoroughly into the mixture. Add flour mixture in small increments while beating until just combined into a thick batter. Fold blueberries into the batter; pour into prepared loaf pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

BLUEBERRY-BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Place an oven rack in the center of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour a 9- by 5- by 3-inch loaf pan. Set aside.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg. In a large bowl, beat the sugar, oil, eggs and vanilla until blended. Stir in the bananas and blueberries. Add the dry ingredients and stir just until blended.
• Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Bake until a cake tester inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool for 15 minutes. Remove the loaf from the pan and cool completely on a wire rack, about 2 hours.

BLUE RIBBON BANANA CAKE WITH CREAMY NUT FILLING

Steps:

• Cream together sugar and shortening.
• Add eggs.
• Beat in mashed bananas.
• Sift dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture.
• Add buttermilk and vanilla.
• Stir in chopped nuts.
• Turn into 2 greased and floured 9 inch layer pans.
• Sprinkle 1/2 cup coconut on each layer.
• Bake in 375°F oven 25 to 30 minutes.
• Combine sugar flour butter and cream in saucepan cook until thickened stirring constantly.
• Add nuts vanilla and salt. Cool and put between cake layers.

BLUE RIBBON BANANA CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, beat 2 minutes. Add bananas; beat 2 minutes longer. Set aside. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk and vanilla. Beat well. Stir in pecans. , Pour into two lightly greased 9-in. round baking pans. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup coconut. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes. Remove cakes from the pan and cool, coconut side up, on wire racks., For filling, combine sugar, flour, cream, salt and butter in a saucepan. Cook over medium heat until thickened. Stir in pecans and vanilla. Cool. Spread filling over the bottom (plain side) of one cake layer. Place remaining cake layer, coconut side up, on top of filling. , In a bowl, combine frosting ingredients; beat until smooth. Place a 3-in. circle in the center of the cake top. Frost sides and top edges of cake. Remove the circle to expose coconut.

SERIOUSLY DELICIOUS BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Cream butter, sugar and eggs.
• Mix banana pulp, vanilla and sour cream.
• Mix alternately with dry ingredients.
• Bake at 350 degrees in greased and floured loaf pans.
• 1 large loaf or 2 small loaves.
• Bake 50-60 minutes.

BEST EVER BANANA BREAD FROM I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BUTTER!®

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Brush 9 x 5-inch loaf pan with additional I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!® Spread; set aside.
• Combine mashed banana, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!® Spread, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla in large bowl with wooden spoon. Stir in remaining ingredients until blended. Spoon into prepared pan.
• Bake 60-70 minutes until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 20 minutes on wire rack; remove from pan and cool completely. If desired, top with Vanilla Glaze.