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Banana Bread

Welcome back! 
Today, we have a recipe for banana bread, which is a great use for your aging bananas. We eat bananas quite often in Chez Chefpo so we also tend to have some surplus bananas, but we always end up making some other sort of banana bread-like cake that isn't quite like this one, which is more traditional. So, this was rather new and very delicious.

Banana Bread


Makes a 4" by 8" loaf

Ingredients:

  • 3 medium bananas
  • 50 grams sugar
  • 35 grams brown sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 5 tablespoons butter, melted
  • 2 tablespoons condensed milk
  • 1 1/2 cups (about 180 grams) flour 
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda

Directions:

  1. Mix together all the wet ingredients: the eggs, melted butter, and condensed milk, and make sure it's smooth.
  2. Then add in the sugar, brown sugar, and salt and mix thoroughly.
  3. Sift the flour and add it along with the baking soda. At this point, just mix it some. You still need to add in the bananas and you don't want it to be over-mixed when the banana comes in.
  4. Add the bananas and then finish mixing it.
  5. Put it in the oven at 350° for 50 minutes.
I really think the condensed milk gives it a really good flavor, and it does compensate for a relatively lower amount of sugar. Of course, if you want a sweeter flavor, you can always add some more sugar. What's nice about this is that it's really simple in terms of the ingredients and everything comes out. You can also add in some chocolate chips, nuts, other fresh/dried fruit like raisins to give it even more flavor, though it's great by itself.

-Chefpo

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