Today our friend Aaron came over, and he had a big bag of bananas that weren't doing too well and also some ginger to use up (he's the friend who I made zenzerino with, from the previous post-luckily it wasn't the same ginger...), so we decided to make banana bread. I found a recipe and altered it a bit. My sugar-eating companions enjoyed it very much. Here's my version:
Banana Bread with Ginger
1/2 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup plain yogurt
3 ripe bananas
2 1/4 cups whole wheat flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp allspice
2 Tbsp fresh ginger, zested
My (lazy) food processor/blender directions: Pulverize banana in food processor. Take out the banana and cream the butter and sugar in the food processor. Add banana, yogurt, and ginger. This will yield a spongier bread, and as you can see below, a fluffy batter.
Normal directions for less lazy people: Cream together butter and sugar. Add yogurt and mashed bananas.
Then: Combine all dry ingredients in a seperate bowl and mix dry and wet ingredients. Bake at 350 for about an hour or until a knife comes out clean.
Then, we made molasses frosting.
Then, Aaron ate a lot of ginger.
