Pumpkin Banana Nut Bread

I made pumpkin banana nut bread. It's very similar to my Persimmon Banana Nut Bread.

I used 2 bananas and 7.5oz of pumpkin puree (half of the 15oz canned pumpkin). My bananas were frozen so I microwaved them til they were soft enough to mash.

Mash them together.

Mix in 2 eggs.

Add in a 1/2 cup of sugar, 1/2 tsp pumpkin spice, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp nutmeg and a 1/2 cup of melted butter.

Fold in 2 cups of all purpose flour and 2 tsp baking powder.

Mix mix mix.

Fold in 1 cup crushed walnuts.

Place batter in a greased loaf pan and bake in a preheated oven of 350 degrees F for about an hour plus 15 - 30 minutes or so.

Ta da!

It's so pretty and you can definitely taste the pumpkin and bananas. Twas very delicious!

Persimmon Banana Nut Bread

Tis the fall season (and Happy Hallow's Eve). What better way to show it than to bake with persimmons!? I took my banana nut bread recipe and subbed two bananas with 2 large persimmons. 

The above photo is a mash of one banana and two persimmons. 

Use a hand blender to puree the mashed fruit unless you like fruit chunks.

Then, mix in 2 eggs, 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup melted butter.

In a separate bowl, mix 2 cups flour, 1.5 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp baking soda, lots of cinnamon, 1/4 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp nutmeg.

Add the flour mix to your mashed fruits.

Fold in 1/2 cup chocolate chips and 1/2 cup chopped walnuts.

Pour batter in loaf pan. Top with more chopped walnuts.

(Note: Lightly press the chopped nuts into the batter.)

Bake in preheated oven of 350°F for 60 minutes or until done.

Personally, it still tasted like a banana nut bread. I must've used a really ripe banana.... Oh wells, still sweet and delicious!

A breakfast picture. Fresh squeezed oj courtesy of my pops. :D And a slice of homemade goodness. All smiles here!

Perfected Coconut Bread

I finally took pictures of the coconut bread that's been perfected according to my hubby's liking; soft and moist. It's the same recipe as Coconut Bread #2 because I've been updating the amounts as I tweaked along, but never updated the pictures.

Here's the 6 scrambled eggs in a food processor.

This is what the mixture looked like when I mixed in the 1/2 cup butter (melted works fine too so long as it isn't warm/hot enough to cook the eggs), 1/2 tsp sea salt, 3 tsp splenda (optional) and the 3/4 cup coconut flour. It looked smooth and very wet.

This is what the mixture looked like after I mixed in the 1/2 cup of water. It looked kind of dry. 

Just spoon the batter into a loaf pan and bake in a preheated oven of 350°F for 40 minutes, then 250°F for about 15-20 minutes or until done.

A beautiful loaf comes out. I really should try doubling the loaf to see if I can get a full sized bread to come out.... one day.

A simple delicious joy for those on a keto diet. 

Almond Flour Paleo Bread #1

The hubster has been craving carbs like crazy lately. (Poor hubby!) And since he's sick of coconut bread, I told him we should try making bread with almond flour. At least it'll give a different flavor. And so I found this Health Extremist Almond Flour Paleo Bread Recipe to try. This recipe still used some coconut flour as well so I figured it'd be a nice transition into almond flour just in case it's very different from coconut flour. Not to mention, the bread on the website actually looked like soft delicious bread! Just to test it out, I made a half batch.

Here's what you need: 1/4 Cup Coconut Flour, 1 Cup + 2 Tablespoons Almond Meal/Flour, 1/4 Cup Ground Chia Seeds, 3 Eggs, 1/8 Teaspoon Sea Salt, 2 Tablespoons Coconut Oil, 1 Tablespoon Apple Cider Vinegar, and 1/4 Teaspoon Baking Soda

In a bowl, mix the coconut flour, almond flour/meal, chia seeds, sea salt and baking soda.

In another bowl, mix the eggs, coconut oil and apple cider vinegar.

Then, pour the dry mixture into the wet mixture and stir until everything is incorporated.

I placed the mixture into a loaf pan and patted it down with a fork (a bit too much as it turned out...) It was baked in a preheated oven of 350°F for 30-40 minutes (since it was a half batch).

It came out like this. The texture was kind of grainy and the flavor was bit bland in my opinion. It was also rather dry and dense (possibly from overpatting it?) instead of soft and chewy. Next time, I will add a lot more butter/coconut oil (maybe 1/4 cup) and possibly some water so it won't be too dry or grainy. Heh, lucky it's not for meeeeeeeeeeee. ;o) 

Update 8/27/13 - Finally got a picture of the bread sliced, toasted and buttered. Sorry, it's a bit blurry!

Disaronno Banana Nut Bread

I've been making banana nut breads for a while now and I'm pretty sure I've got my go-to recipe down. However, this time around, I wanted to add Disaronno to it for an almond flavor. Here's what I used:

Dry ingredients: 2 cups flour, 1.5 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp salt, 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg

Wet ingredients: 3 old bananas~ mashed, 2 eggs, 1/2 cup butter~room temp or melted, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 cup Disaronno

Optional: 1/2 walnuts, chopped, 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chip, chopped

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.

2. Mix all the dry ingredients in one bowl. Set aside.

3. Mash your bananas first, then add the eggs, then the butter and sugar and Disaronno. Mix well.

4. Then add your dry mix in stages to your wet mix until all the dry mix is well incorporated. 

5. Fold in your chopped waltnuts and chocolates if you want.

6. Spray your bread pan with Pam or butter it down, then pour in your bread batter.

7. Bake it in the oven for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until done.

This is super delicious and perfectly moist with a hint of almond flavor. Perfect. Mm-mmmmm.

Coconut bread toasts

This coconut bread was made without the splenda per hubster's request. For breakfast, he toasted a couple slices, placed a dab of unsalted butter and gave it a pinch or so of kosher salt. It was pretty yummy for a simple breakfast. Mm-mmm!

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Coconut bread n Cream

For dessert, we had toasted coconut bread with frozen cream and fruits. It was superb!

The coconut bread recipe can be found here.

The frozen cream recipe can be found here.

Banana Nut Bread with Chocolate Swirls

Mmmmm, doesn't that just look scrumptious!?!?!? It was freshly baked and right out of the oven. It smelled sooooooooo GOOD!!!!

I really wanted chocolate in it, but I didn't want chocolate chips so I took a small handful of semisweet chocolate chips and melted it with a pat of butter in the microwave. I then poured it into the batter and tried to fold it in. I didn't want to stir it in cuz then it'd be a chocolate batter when I really just wanted pretty swirls.

You can't really see the swirls sadly, but it was really awesome! It came out like this:

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Coconut Bread #2

This is a modified recipe of this coconut bread. My fiance and I were trying to make the coconut bread less dense and more bread-like with a soft inside and crunchy outside. I think we've somewhat succeeded:

Using the same ingredients but in a different order with added water, the bread was less dense, more moist and easier to eat overall compared to the original recipe.

Here's what we did:

1) In a food processor, add 6 eggs. Scramble it a bit.

2) Add 1/2 cup ghee (regular unsalted butter works fine too). I use room temp and cube it so it's easier to combine with the other ingredients.

3) Add 1/2 tsp sea salt. Mix until butter is crumbly.

4) Add 3 tsp of splenda. Mix briefly.

5) Add 3/4 cup coconut flour. Mix well.

6) And then I added 1/2 cup water. Mix again.

7) Place in glassware that is lined with parchment paper for easy pull out.

8) Bake in preheated oven of 350F for 40 minutes, then 250F for about 15 minutes or until done. 

If you continue to cook the bread at 350F, it'll start to burn. The reason for the long cooking time is to let the water evaporate so it'll be a pleasant somewhat airy bread. It was pretty moist too if you eat it right out of the oven. Hubby loves it!

Updated 10/22/2013: Please see Perfected Coconut Bread for updated pictures. (Recipe is the same as I've been updating the info as I tweaked along.)

Coconut Bread #1

I made coconut bread for my fiance because he's on a keto diet, which meant pretty much no breads and starch and sugar. Then he found out he could eat a bit of coconut flour and found this recipe for me to make. It's super simple and easy to make. All you need is the following:

3/4 cup coconut flour

1/2 cup ghee (clarified butter) or coconut oil

2 tbs honey or 2 tsp splenda for people on keto

1/2 tsp sea salt

6 eggs

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

2. Combine coconut flour, ghee, honey, 1/2 teaspoon unrefined sea salt and eggs together.

3. Mix all the ingredients together until they form a smooth paste with no clumps.

4. Grease a loaf pan.

5. Spoon the mixture into the loaf pan, and bake in an oven preheated to 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 40 minutes.

I like to place all the dry foods in a food processor and the eggs last. The loaf turns out a bit airy, otherwise it's a pretty dense coconut bread if you mix the batter by hand.

Banana Nut Bread Comparison

The top banana nut bread used honey, the bottom slice used brown sugar. I'm gonna stick with honey from now on since it looks more appetizing to eat. It was also more moist and soft compared to the brown sugar loaf. But, the brown sugar was a bit dry because I used the same recipe as the honey loaf minus the honey. I had forgotten to add more oil. If I run out of honey and need to used brown sugar, I'm gonna be sure to add more oil so it won't be all dry and crumbly next time. 

Btw, this stuff tastes amazing toasted and topped with butter or jam.

Banana Choconut Bread

The recipe that I usually use can be found from a previous post: here. However, this time, for the wet portion, I mixed 3 mashed old bananas, 2 eggs, 1/2cup of honey, 1/6cup of oil, and lots of nuts and shredded chocolate (choco chips merely went in the blender). Add the dry portion (flour mix) to the wet portion. Place in glassware and bake in the oven at 350 degrees F. Bake until nicely browned and until you can place a toothpick/chopstick in the middle and pull out cleanly. This version turned out to be quite decadent and moist and finger-licking good with all the chocolate pieces!!

Raspberry Shocktop Bread

 

Boyfriend made another loaf of bread. This was beer bread made with raspberry shocktop. It looks delicious and oddly enough tastes (and smells) like there are cranberries inside!

 

 

I took a couple slices of work, spread creamy peanut butter and topped off with dried fruit. It's pretty delicious... if only I had a glass of milk to go with, it'd be even better!

Mantou

It seems my bf is getting into baking breads. He modified the other homemade bread recipe by adding honey into the mix and then steaming the dough. It was almost like biting into a store bought mantou only this was fresh outta the steamer! :D Delicious and fresh!

Homemade Bread

Can't believe this turned out very pretty! It did taste like any other normal bread. Purty good!