Description
Take regular banana bread to the next level by artfully adding a few more hints of tropical taste with oranges and spices, finished off with a lovely light orange glaze.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 orange, zested and juiced
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 overripe bananas, mashed
- 3/4 stick unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 1/4 cup plain yogurt
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- Move an oven rack to middle position and set your oven to heat to 350 degrees F. Prep a 9X4 bread pan by either spraying generously with non-stick spray, or coating with crisco and dusting with flour.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg. Set aside.
- In a separate mixing bowl, whisk together 2 tablespoons of orange zest, sugar, mashed banana, melted butter, yogurt, eggs, and vanilla.
- Gently stir the contents of the second mixing bowl (wet ingredients) into the first mixing bowl (dry ingredients) with a wooden spoon just until no more white streaks of flour remain. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and smooth the surface. Bake for 55-60 minutes, or until a skewer in the center comes out clean. Dump out loaf and cool on a wire rack.
- While loaf is cooling, mix 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed orange juice with powdered sugar. When loaf has cooled for 30 minutes, drizzle glaze over loaf, slice and serve.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hours
- Category: snack
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 278
- Sugar: 24 g
- Sodium: 280 mg
- Fat: 8.3 g
- Saturated Fat: 4.8 g
- Carbohydrates: 47.7 g
- Fiber: 1.9 g
- Protein: 4.7 g
- Cholesterol: 56 mg
