Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread

As you may or may not already know, I am obsessed with using up overly ripe bananas.  I've blogged so many banana recipes that you can now search the label "banana" and pull up all of my recipes and creative uses of bananas.  I recently found this recipe for Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread on loveintheoven.com.  It looked so good and as fate would have it, I had 3 overly ripe bananas sitting on my kitchen counter that very same day.

Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread
For the bread:

• 3 over-ripe bananas, smashed up
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp baking soda
• dash of salt
• 1 1/2 cups flour

For the swirl:

• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 Tbs cinnamon

1. Preheat oven to 350. Butter and four a loaf pan.
2. Mix bananas, butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla together. 

 3.  Sprinkle baking soda and salt around on top of the banana mixture. Then gently stir in flour. Be careful not to over-mix!

 4.  In a small dish, mix together the 1/3 cup sugar and 1 Tbs cinnamon.

 5.  Add 1/2 of the batter to the loaf pan.

6.  Sprinkle half, or a little more than half of the cinnamon-sugar mixture all over the batter in the pan.

8.  Add the rest of the batter.

9.  Sprinkle the leftover cinnamon-sugar on top.

10.  Bake for 50-60 minutes, but remember, if you’re using a different-sized loaf pan, be careful and keep a close eye on it!

The tricky part was getting it out of the pan because if I had flipped it over, all of the cinnamon topping would have fallen off.   I let it cool completely in the pan and then carefully lifted it out with a spatula.

This bread was really good.  (So good in fact that we ate the whole loaf in one day!)  It was a nice change from my usual chocolate chip banana bread.

The cinnamon ribbon really made it unique. This is a dangerous recipe because it was REALLY hard to stop eating it. 

As a matter of fact, I made the recipe a second time and turned it into muffins.

 

Yep - Just as good as muffins!

 Ciao!



Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread
For the bread:

• 3 over-ripe bananas, smashed up
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp baking soda
• dash of salt
• 1 1/2 cups flour

For the swirl:

• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 Tbs cinnamon

1. Preheat oven to 350. Butter and four a loaf pan.
2. Mix bananas, butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla together. sprinkle baking soda and salt around on top of the banana mixture. Then gently stir in flour. Be careful not to over-mix!
3. In a small dish, mix together the 1/3 cup sugar and 1 Tbs cinnamon.
4. Add 1/2 of the batter to the loaf pan and then sprinkle half, or a little more than half of the cinnamon-sugar mixture all over the batter in the pan. Add the rest of the batter, and then sprinkle the leftover cinnamon-sugar on top.
5. Bake for 50-60 minutes, but remember, if you’re using a different-sized loaf pan, be careful and keep a close eyeball on it!