bananas

Roasted Banana Ice Cream

May 27, 2011 |

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I have been wanting to make roasted banana ice cream for what feels like forever. I finally got around to it this week and am totally smitten. If you love bananas, you will positively fall in love with this ice cream. It basically tastes like a frozen piece of banana bread. And it doesn’t take [...]

Banana Cupcakes with Vanilla Pastry Cream

January 21, 2011 |

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Since I have embraced summer in January this week, inspired by the S’more Nut Bars, I thought I would follow up with these banana cupcakes. As I have mentioned pretty much every single time I make a cupcake recipe, I am a huge, huge, HUGE frosting fan. Adore frosting. Eat it by the spoonful when [...]

Banana Nut Bread

September 17, 2010 |

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Growing up, there was never a lack of things to eat at my Grandma’s house. There were tins filled with pizzelle and biscotti that were never empty. I mean, never. They were always sitting, filled to the brim, on the last step near the dining room. One of my favorite days were the ones when [...]

Banana-Nut Oat Bran Muffins

September 7, 2010 |

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These healthy banana-nut muffins are the very first recipe that I can remember learning how to follow and bake. My mom began baking these when my dad found out he had high cholesterol, and soon they became a weekly ritual. I always wanted to help make them, and at first I was given the job [...]

Southern Banana Pudding

June 17, 2010 |

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Back in the day before I thought about food 24/7 and I was relatively new to the kitchen, I made this dessert to take somewhere. Only I made it with boxed pudding and Cool Whip. Which isn’t terrible, but I love making as much from scratch as possible, so quite a many years later, this [...]

Bananas Foster Banana Bread

July 9, 2009 |

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Moist banana bread, topped with a walnut streusel, and drenched in a butter-sugar-rum sauce. Meet Bananas Foster Banana Bread. It’s about to become your best friend. I was sifting through a huge stack of my grandma’s old recipes and came upon three copies of her banana bread and decided to whip up a loaf. As [...]

Bananas Foster Bread Pudding

March 2, 2009 |

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I have a rather brief history with bread pudding, having tried it for the first time only this past New Year’s Eve. But oh, I was in love. Perhaps it was the chocolate, the Grand Marnier, the freshly whipped cream, the raspberry coulis, or the combination of all those flavors in bite after sweet bite, [...]

Black-and-White Banana Loaf

August 4, 2008 |

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Bananas and chocolate in a dense, moist bread. You really can’t go wrong with that combination, and this bread did not disappoint. My friend Amber and I were looking for something to bake together and since she is now the proud owner of Dorie Greenspan’s Baking: From My Home to Yours, we picked this recipe [...]

Banana Muffins

January 9, 2008 |

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I have been making these banana muffins for quite a few years now and they are always a hit. They are very moist, extremely sweet, and have a wonderful banana flavor. The original recipe comes with a mascarpone cheese frosting, but I never use it because, well, #1 – that seems more cupcake-ish than muffin-ish, [...]