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A couple days ago I was at Tyler’s place (in case you are wondering Tyler is my boyfriend) and Tyler was in his kitchen getting rid of all his expired food from the fridge and cupboards. He was about to throw out two quite dark colored bananas when I stopped him. I said “don’t throw those out, I’ll make something with them”. He gave them to me, and the next day I whipped up some super yummy banana bread. I made the recipe myself morphing one of my own banana muffin recipes into banana bread.

My rescued bananas

My Kahlua banana bread is a soft, and moist. It has a distinct Kahula flavor that I love. The shredded coconut, and walnut pieces give the bread a subtle nutty flavor.

My banana bread is a house hold hit, and less then 24 hours later it is almost all gone.

Here is my recipe.

Kahula Banana Bread

1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup all purpose flour
½ tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
2 tsp white vinegar
¼-½ cup skim milk
¼ cup olive oil
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 tbsp Kahlua
1-1 ½  cup not packed brown sugar
2 large eggs
1/8-¼ cup unsweetened medium shredded coconut
3 medium sized bananas
Several pieces of your favorite chocolate (baking chocolate or another kind) cut into tiny pieces

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl combine all the dry ingredients (except the brown sugar). Mix well. In a blender add the bananas (in pieces), milk, eggs, olive oil, vanilla extract, and Kahlua. Blend until smooth. Add the blender mixture to the dry ingredients and stir until smooth. Pour the batter into a prepared cake pan (I used 9X13 but a smaller pan would work too). Bake for about 25-35 minutes or until the banana bread is golden on top and a tooth pick comes out clean when poked.
Serve warm or cool.

This morning I was craving some banana bread. I took out our Mountain View Elementary School cookbook, and found the one banana bread recipe in it (on page 47). I modified the recipe greatly and came up with my own version. Here it is.

Banana Bread

¾ cup not packed brown sugar
½ cup olive oil
1 tsp salt
2 ¼ cup all purpose flour
2 ½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
3 large bananas
1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
1 tbsp rum extract
½ cup sour milk (skim milk and white vinegar)
2 large eggs
½ cup chopped walnuts
½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

In a large bowl combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Stir in the walnuts, and chocolate chips.

In a blender add the banana, brown sugar, rum and vanilla extracts, sour milk, olive oil, and eggs. Blend until smooth. Add the banana mixture to the flour mixture, and stir until smooth. Add the batter to a prepared baking pan. Bake for 20-30 minutes. Enjoy J

The banana bread turned out super yummy. It’s a simple, soft sweet bread with a little crunch from the walnuts.