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Banana Bread For Two
What are you going to do with that one over ripe banana on your counter… Here’s your answer, it’s a dessert for two, it’s a round banana bread. The chopped pecans give this banana bread a great texture, but you could swap them out for walnuts. The yogourt keeps it moist and adds just a little zing.
Ingredients:
60 mL (¼ cup) sugar
15 mL (1 Tbsp) butter, melted
1 ripe banana, mashed
15 mL (1 Tbsp) yogourt
2 mL (½ tsp) pure vanilla extract
1 egg
125 mL (½ cup) all-purpose flour
2 mL (½ tsp) baking soda
Pinch of salt
60 mL (¼ cup) pecan pieces
Method:
Preheat oven to 180ºC (350ºF)
Grease a 6″ round cake pan.
In a bowl whisk together butter, banana, yogourt, vanilla, and egg.
In a another bowl whisk together flour, pecans, baking soda, salt, and sugar.
Stir the flour mixture into the banana mix and transfer to the cake pan.
Smooth the top and bake for about 20-25 minutes.
Let cake cool for 10-15 minutes before removing from pan.
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Welcome Friends welcome back to the kitchen so earlier today I’m hanging out in the kitchen and I had that lonely Brown banana and I thought you know we’re going to grab a couple more bananas out of the freezer cuz when they get to this point they’re kind of brown we don’t
Really eat them they end up in the freezer uh and they’re used we save them up until we have enough to make banana bread there weren’t any more in the freezer today so I only had one banana I really wanted banana bread I had my mind set on
It at that point so I’m going to make a banana bread cake for two using this little 6in tin a little bit disappointing but pretty simple to make so I’m still going to get my banana bread hit now I’ve got sugar a little bit of melted butter and one egg and
We’re going to whisk this together okay now I’m going to mash the banana in do you peel a banana from this end or from this end some people peel it from this end and use it as a handle and some people use this as a lever like I do to peel it this
Way um I know people that do it both ways so in goes the banana and the mashing starts and this may be a little bit too hard already but I can already hear the comments people type in their comments that the banana wasn’t Brown enough yet that it wasn’t soft enough
Yet oh it’s not soft enough I want a banana bread today not tomorrow or the next day I wanted it today so I’m fine with the level of ripeness in that banana smells wonderful I smell banana it’s going to be great so I’ve got some flour baking soda and salt and we’ll
Give that a little bit of stir next into the bowl is some yogurt and I need about a tablespoon so I’m going to very carefully measure in a tablespoon of yogurt also need a little bit of vanilla again carefully measured and we’ll whisk that up and now we start whisking in the
Flour a little bit at a time whisks together really quickly lots of banana flavor in that okay I’ve got some pecans and I’m just going to stir them in I’ve got a 6in cake pan that I have buttered and put a piece of parchment in the bottom the oven is preheated to
350° and this will bake for about 15 minutes um your timing will be different because your oven is different your pan is different you’re at a different altitude all sorts of reasons why yours is going to be different so we’re going to watch it closely you’ll know that
It’s done when a cake testure comes out clean okay into the oven hey Glen that looks pretty good hey Jules hey friends let me grab a fork a little uh a little banana cake banana bread for two I mean I do like the small cakes cuz then you don’t get tired of
Them and they don’t dry out yeah when you’ve got two people and the whole people could argue forever banana bread banana cake what makes it bread what makes it cake I a big piece of banana in that one it’s even still warm it is still warm right to the oven hasn’t been very
Long um really good banana flavor this cake could stand a second banana if you had two bananas on your counter you could put two bananas in this um it would work really well but I don’t think you need to change anything with that cake that’s really good I mean
You could change the nut maybe if you want to use walnuts if you like walnuts I don’t like walnuts so I use pecans you don’t need to change anything it’s a great cake for two cakes for two are fantastic thanks for stopping by see you again soon e
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I will once again be flying in the Give Hope Wings fundraiser this year! Our June of 2024 flight will see us stop in many communities in Eastern Canada to raise awareness for this worthy cause.
Last year 2023 we raised over $27,000 towards helping our neighbours – we made a positive difference in the lives of many.
Here's the link to the 2024 fundraiser page: https://support.hopeair.ca/ghw2024/glens-hangar
To learn more about the Hope Air Charity: https://hopeair.ca/
If your banana isn't brown enough, actually try to bake it at a low temp for a few minutes. It actually works and turns them to mush. Like 10-20 minutes at 300°F/150°C, and they'll turn black. I've done it several times and works perfect. Use some parchmnent though because they also tend to leak out a lot of moisture.
What? No butter on warm banana bread? Sacrilege.
Thank you
I used to peel my bananas from the stem end but I have switched to the flower of late.
Oh Glen, what did you do ? Now I NEED banana bread too <eyes lone banana> This recipe is definitely for me thanks hehehehe
Made mine with two bananas and dark chocolate chips in a 1/8th sheet pan. Awesome
I love the Cakes For Two recipes!!
As usual, Glen, you hit it outta the park.
I do a toasted oats version. Fun fact I substitute other fruits when then is only one banana.
Yeah,I live on the edge. : )
You can substitute chocolate chips for the nuts too!
A Canadian that calls them puh-KAHNS instead of PEE-cans. That's rare! That's what we call them down here in Georgia (and I'm a former Albertan).
Bah! The banana is always ripe enough. If it's too firm, just use a little more wrist action with the fork. 😂
…. and now I'm craving banana bread! What a quick and easy recipe … Thank you! 🥰
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i open from the stem end, because i wait until they're pretty brown before i eat them. if i happen to have to eat a banana that's too green, sometimes i have to go to the blossom end… but if they're squishy already, that end is too messy!
Glen, thanks for this small batch recipe. I cook for 1 most of the time. This saves me the time it would take to divide the recipe and experiment with bake time.
So rebellious today 😂❤😂
Our neighbor is a widow, living alone. She frequently likes to make banana bread. We will get a call – sometimes like 9:00pm “come meet me at the end of my driveway”, and she’ll have a mini loaf for us.
If you love banana bread. You would love my banana cookies.
I don't peel from either end, I split the peel on the back side of the curve and spread it open so I have a little serving dish (more or less) and I then break bits off the banana and eat them. I tend to eat very slowly and savor what I am eating so it works for me.
I've made the previous lemon cake recipe several times using banana instead of egg. So you don't have to not have cake if you are out of eggs. I did two frozen bananas once, batter was wetter and took a bit longer to cook. Bit dense, but good with coffee.
I've used unripped bananas before because I wanted banana bread right away! Love the smaller portions!
I have TWO bananas! Getting browner in the fridge. I even have some yogurt. But I don't have a 6 inch cake pan. Hmmmm, I'll have to improvise! Thanks, Glen.
Who uses a fork for banana bread?! It’s finger food 😊
My banana bread always looks lovely when it comes out of oven, but is like rubber on the inside.
I don’t understand why the comments are saying to bake the bananas to ripen them. Stella Parks notes the ripening process is amylase enzymes converting starch to sugar, and that bananas slowly produce amylase in the presence of ethylene (hence why it takes a while to ripen). Baking wouldn’t do that, though it might soften them.
Stella says mixing the egg yolks from the recipe (which have a lot of amylase) into the bananas and leaving them for 30 minutes, before continuing with the recipe, will do the same job (i.e. break down the starches into sugar and effectively “ripen” them).
So you can make banana bread with fresh bananas, just mix in the eggs and leave them for half an hour before mixing in the rest.
That is a great idea. I never thought to make banana bread. I’m looking forward to more great recipes. Glad I found your channel.
I peel the banana from the bottom, the only reason is that that little brown/black nubby thingy grosses me out, lol
Had a frozen banana left in the freezer, made this recipe. Added cinnamon, vanilla, and a bit more salt (i like my baked goods saltier). Put it in a small loaf pan. Super delicious.
I love the small cake recipes. Over the holidays I wanted banana bread but had no milk. However, I did have some eggnog (non-alcoholic). I substituted the eggnog for the milk and eggs. It already had spices as well. Turned out great. I will make that one again Love this channel. Thanks
I'm a both-ender Glen. Depends on variety and ripeness which end I peel from.
Definitely going to make this with an extra banana and chocolate chips instead of the nuts!
I make banana muffins when we have only one single lonely banana. That shit is so good!
Such a quick yum!
I baked this today. I did use two bananas, chocolate chips instead of nuts, and whole milk instead of yogurt. It ended up baking for 30 mins in my Breville Smart Oven. It's very good! Next time I'll put the nuts in instead of chocolate chips. Simple and great recipe!
used gluten-free flour, it took 40 minutes for the toothpick to come out clean
Remember the little Easy Bake Ovens? That size of pan, in that oven, reminded me! LOL
This is very similar to the recipe I make. With the exception that I use brown sugar in mine, which I feel imparts more flavour, as well as a deeper colour. Mine also uses a mix of white and whole wheat flour. I like the addition of whole wheat flour, as it not only helps to hold moisture during baking, it also helps retain its moisture after baking as well. I also use yogurt in mine, which I feel is another key component. The recipe calls for either buttermilk or yogurt, but I prefer yogurt. I also like walnuts in mine, but I have used pecans as well. Overall, I feel this is a good recipe. I'd just use brown sugar. 😉
Also, I like very dark bananas for banana bread. The darker the better. I've even used completely black bananas that were literally the consistency of mashed potatoes on the inside, which made the best banana bread ever. But I've also used bananas of that ripeness many times. I'm like you, sometimes you just need banana bread NOW. lol
I love quickbreads. I love banana bread. I will make this for sure. Probably with less sugar. I put ⅓ cup in my regular sized loaf! I use cardamom in mine.
I love this simplified and small version of banana bread. Just enough…
I have everything I need to make this recipe. A banana should be at pretty much the right stage of ripeness by tomorrow. But just one banana. But I made ice cream a few days ago, following Glen's recipe for no churn ice cream, with a banana, rum, vanilla and coffee liqueur. It turned out fantastic, but I should probably have blended the banana instead of mashing it. I think I'll be cheeky and mix some of it into the banana bread mixture.
My cakes are always far too big, but I always freeze them in portions and am glad later that I baked something so good.
My kids just surprised me with hot dog chowder and banana cake 😂 Thank you Glen for sharing those easy recipes ❤