Now, forget the "oh, my" comment, I don't really like bananas, but for a period of my life I had to eat them. It was when my grandad was really ill, near the end of his life, and he could not eat solid food anymore because he wasn't present enough as to chew, but we were also recommended to give him lots of fruits. So every day he had half an apple or half a pear or a very ripe kiwy or half a banana, always crushed to a mesh like you do with babes. What to do with the other half fruit? We had to eat them. Pear, that was easy enough, bot me and my grandmom like them. Apples. I can't stand them, so my grandmom ate them although she d'es not like them. If she had my apples, I had to have the bananas. THis is waht I did.
I turned the half banana to a mesh too, added a pinch of powdered cinnamon and a teaspoon of honey, than used this mixture as a pread to fill small panini. When I had any, I would mix the fruit mixture with some ricotta and eat this cream as a desert too. I suppose, you may make a simple crostata using the banana + ricotta + honey + cinnamon cream. Cook the shell filled with dried beans, than add the cream. Maybe an egg in the cream might work. Cook for a few more minutes. It may be an interesting experiment.
I found a recipe on a website: I mixed butter and sugar, I added 1 egg mixed with half a glass of milk, flour and yeast, bananas reduced to a pulp and I cooked in the oven at 200°C for 45 minutes.
Hi capital(G)loria, I make this recipe often and it always comes out moist, better the next day.
8 ounces sweet butter 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar 4 large eggs 1 1/4 cups very ripe bananas(about 3-4) 2 1/2 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 6 ounces coarsely chopped pecans
Preheat oven 350 degrees Butter a loaf pan Beat together butter and sugar with paddle attachment of mixer on medium speed until light and creamy Add eggs 2 at a time mixing well after each addition Stir in bananas Add dry ingredients and nuts at low speed
Spread into prepared pan and bake 45 minutes to 1 hour until skewer inserted into middle of cake comes out clean
Sometimes I add a bit of vanilla or some lemon zest to the batter. Depending on which oven I use, sometimes it takes longer than the 1 hour the recipe says it takes.
Hope this turns out better for you. Good luck!
little(g)loria
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One thing I notice here is that cakes are not creamed well. How long did you let the butter/sugar/egg mixture mix before adding the other ingredients? I do a good 5 minutes on high speed.
Little (g)loria,
That is pretty much the recipe I use but one note for (G), brown sugar is not easily found in Italy and it is not demarara or zucchero di cana. Also baking powder (lievito per dolci) here has vanilla added to it normally so you may need to look for one that doesn't have it.
Thank you everybody! I mixed butter and sugar for about 5 minutes I think... I think the problem was that the cake didn't rise well... it was too thick in the end... and the banana pulp was all the bottom...
Little (g)loria I will try your recipe as well! Marcel will hate bananas in few days!
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