Just Baked A Banana Bread

@marlina (154131)
Canada
December 9, 2015 11:57am CST
My banana bread is in the oven now baking away. I can see that I am entirely well since my bad day yesterday as it just about wiped me out just doing this simple task and cleaning the dishes after. I use a recipe that I found in the Canadian Chatelaine magazine decades ago. It is usually pretty tasty. Some do not like it as there are added mixed glazed fruits in it and it tastes almost like a fruit cake. But I personally love it. It tastes even better the older it gets. When the banana cake will be cooled enough I will slice it thin and wrap each slice and put it in my big freezer. So whenever I feel like a slice, I just take one out.#
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• United States
9 Dec 15
Sounds good. I have a lady friend who's 98 that makes banana/cherry bread. She's been making it ever since she was 14 yrs. old. Everyone asks for it. She is still baking.
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
9 Dec 15
98 years old and still baking! That is something!
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• United States
9 Dec 15
@fibrogodess wow that's amazing that your 98 yr old friend is still baking
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• United States
9 Dec 15
@Marilynda1225 It keeps her going.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
9 Dec 15
I make this most of the time.Have you try chocolate chips?
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
10 Dec 15
No, Alfredo, I haven't tried the chocolate chips in this particular recipe, but I did with my banana muffins and it was delicious.
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• United States
9 Dec 15
chocolate chips sound good too
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@Blondie2222 (28611)
• United States
10 Dec 15
I love banana bread but instead of fruit i like walnuts in mine so yummy
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
10 Dec 15
I never tried to bake banana bread with walnuts, that must be good too.
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• Budennovsk, Russian Federation
11 Dec 15
It must be wonderful to eat it. It is suitable for breakfast and tea i suppose
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
11 Dec 15
You can eat it whenever you feel like it!
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• Budennovsk, Russian Federation
14 Dec 15
@marlina Yesterday i cooked it and it was again slightly burnt (my fault because i chose flat vessel for baking, next time i will take deep baking form)
@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
9 Dec 15
That's so funny. I just baked banana bread a couple days ago and I do the very same thing. Once it cools, slice it and wrap the individual slices and put them in the freezer.
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• United States
9 Dec 15
such a good idea to put the slices in the freezer
@blitzfrick (2890)
• United States
12 Dec 15
I had banana cake today (Dec 9) for my birthday! Coincidence? I think not.
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
13 Dec 15
Happy belated birthday Carol. I hope your cake was delicious!
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@sallypup (60801)
• Centralia, Washington
12 Dec 15
Happy birthday, @blitzfrick.
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• United States
14 Dec 15
@marlina Thanks, the cake was wonderful. And I had a really fun day, best birthday in a very long time.
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• Greece
10 Dec 15
I am going to make a banana cake today or tomorrow. It is a favourite with my husband because it is not too sweet. I shall copy you and wrap mine up and freeze it in pieces too.
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
10 Dec 15
I really like the idea of wrapping every slice. Makes it easy for later use.
• United States
9 Dec 15
Silly question but does banana bread taste like bananas? I ask that since zucchini bread doesn't taste like zucchini and I've never had banana bread because I don't like bananas.
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
9 Dec 15
To me, it doesn't taste like bananas.
• United States
9 Dec 15
@marlina Ok, then maybe I should try it since bananas are good for you.
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
9 Dec 15
@AbbyGreenhill Good luck!
• United States
9 Dec 15
Putting dried fruits into your banana bread sounds like a great twist on an old favorite. I'm fond of fruit cake so I bet I'd enjoy this
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• Budennovsk, Russian Federation
18 Dec 15
the pic of my banana bread from buckwheat flour, that i have just baked
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
18 Dec 15
Looks very tasty!
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@sallypup (60801)
• Centralia, Washington
12 Dec 15
Banana bread is tasty. Too bad you need the glazed fruit. I'd sub in real dried fruit like dried apricots if I made the recipe.
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
12 Dec 15
I don't really need the glazed fruit but I like it that way.
@sallypup (60801)
• Centralia, Washington
12 Dec 15
@marlina We make fruitcake every year but sub real dried fruit for the waxy glazed biz.
• West Haven, Connecticut
10 Dec 15
Yummm! I love banana bread and carrot bread as well
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
10 Dec 15
I love both them too and also make muffins this way.
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@shshiju (10342)
• Cochin, India
10 Dec 15
Perfect Baker
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
10 Dec 15
Not at all a perfect baker, far from it.
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@shshiju (10342)
• Cochin, India
10 Dec 15
@marlina don't worry simplicity is the best combination of a perfect Baker. Lol
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
10 Dec 15
@shshiju Okay, I won`t worry then, LOL
10 Dec 15
Wow:D sounds really delicious. Can you please share the recipe? TIA
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
10 Dec 15
Sorry, but I don't publish recipes here, not recommended.
@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
9 Dec 15
That sounds delicious. I haven't baked in a while.
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@jstory07 (139354)
• Roseburg, Oregon
10 Dec 15
I really love baking banana bread and eating it while it is still warm.
@LadyDuck (470823)
• Switzerland
9 Dec 15
The addition of mixed glazed fruits sounds interesting, I have to try to find this recipe.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
9 Dec 15
I love banana bread, it's pretty yummy
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@shellyjaneo (1081)
• United Kingdom
9 Dec 15
I've never made a banana bread but I do like it. I don't bake though as I am rubbish at it x
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@marijuana (570)
• Tel Aviv, Israel
10 Dec 15
I love banana cake .. Its the only cake I make perfectly :D