High Altitude Banana Bread Recipes

HIGH-ALTITUDE BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Place butter, eggs, and sugar in a mixing bowl. Mix well with an electric mixer.
• Add flour, baking powder, and salt, mix well.
• Add ripe bananas, and use teh mixer to mash them as you mix them into the batter.
• Stir the walnuts into the batter with a spoon. If you are adding any add-ins, go ahead and stir them in now.
• Pour into a greased bread pan, and bake at 350° for 1 hour and 10 minutes -- or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Preheat oven to 350°.

HIGH-ALTITUDE BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Combine butter, eggs, sugar, and mashed bananas in bowl. Bananas should be finely mashed, there can be small (1 cm or less) chunks of banana in the batter.
• Combine flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and cinnamon in another bowl.
• Mix wet and dry ingredients together until well blended.
• If you would like to add optional ingredients (chopped nuts, dried fruit, and/or chocolate chips), stir in about 1/2 cup here.
• Pour dough into 1 greased 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• Bake at 350F for 50 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Let bread cool in pan for 5-10 minutes before removing.
• Enjoy hot or cold!

HIGH ALTITUDE BANANA CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt, set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter, sugar and brown sugar. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla and mashed banana. Mix in the dry ingredients until just blended, then fold in chocolate chips. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto prepared cookie sheets.
• Bake for 11 to 13 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

HIGH-ALTITUDE BANANA BREAD WITH CRUMB TOPPING

Steps:

• For the bread:
• Preheat the oven to 350°F, and grease and flour a 9-inch round cake pan. In a large bowl, beat together the softened butter and granulated sugar until smooth. Add the eggs, mashed banana, water, and vanilla and mix to combine. In another bowl, combine the flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and beat until combined. Fold in the chopped walnuts, and pour the batter into your prepared pan, spreading it evenly
• For the crumb topping:
• In a bowl, mix the flour, brown sugar, oats, walnuts, melted butter, cinnamon, and salt together with a fork until medium crumbs form. If yours comes out too dry, add a teaspoon of water. If it's too wet, add a teaspoon of flour. Evenly sprinkle the crumb mixture over the top of the batter.
• Bake for 40 minutes. Then place a piece of foil over the top to prevent overbrowning, and bake until a cake tester inserted into the center of the bread comes out clean, 10 to 15 minutes longer. Cool in the pan completely before removing. Cut into wedges and serve.

CHERYL'S HIGH ALTITUDE BANANA NUT BREAD RECIPE RECIPE - (3/5)

Steps:

• -Cream the shortening/butter/margarine and add the sugar gradually. Cream thoroughly. -Add the egg and mix well. -Combine and sift all dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda) -Combine the water with the mashed bananas -Add the mixed dry ingredients and the bananas alternately with the creamed butter, sugar and egg mixture. Make sure all the ingredients are well blended with each addition. -Bake in a lined/oiled/floured bread pan at 375 degrees F for 1 hour. -Tent with foil during the last 15 minutes to prevent over-browning/burning the top.