Description
Spice up your holiday season fresh baked banana bread with a festive ginger twist!
Ingredients
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- 2 bananas, very ripe (around 1 cup)
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 1/4 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 cup molasses (do not use black strap molasses)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- Optional: 1/4 cup crystallized or candied ginger, roughly chopped
- Powdered sugar for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350˚F. Grease a 9x5 loaf pan and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and brown sugar until completely combined.
- Add the eggs, vanilla extract, molasses, and buttermilk, and whisk until thoroughly mixed.
- In a separate bowl, mash up the bananas. Add to the egg mixture and stir until combined.
- In a medium mixing bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, sea salt and crystallized or candied ginger if using.
- Add the flour mixture to the banana mixture and stir until just combined.
- Bake for 60-70 minutes (depending on your oven), rotating halfway through baking. If the top gets dark brown before the middle is cooked, cover gently with a piece of foil and continue baking.
- When a toothpick inserted into the middle of the loaf comes out clean, remove the bread from the oven and place on a wire rack to cool for 10 minutes.
- Dust with powdered sugar, slice, and serve!
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour