Apple Butter- Banana Bread

I have this recipe I have been wanting to try that is an applesauce, cinnamon bread. So I was going to make that when I thought...golly..I have these bananas that need to be used and I have this apple butter that needs to be used..I wonder if I can find a recipe for those ingredients...so I go to Google. You know, Google knows EVERYTHING!

Of course I find a bunch of recipes. I went to one of my favorite recipe sites and found a recipe. Then I read the comments and found out that "they" all liked the Better Homes and Gardens version better, so I went there and found their recipe and used it. So, here is the recipe I used.

Apple Butter-Banana Bread

Better Homes and Gardens Version

 Ingredients

 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

 1/4 teaspoon baking soda

 1/4 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg

 2 slightly beaten eggs

 3/4 cup sugar

 1/2 cup mashed ripe banana (2 small)

 1/2 cup apple butter

 1/4 cup canola or cooking oil

Directions

1. Grease and flour the bottom and 1/2 inch up the sides of a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan; set aside. In a large bowl combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg. Make a well in center of the flour mixture; set aside.

2. In a medium bowl combine eggs, sugar, banana, apple butter, and oil. Add egg mixture all at once to flour mixture. Stir just until moistened (batter should be lumpy). Spoon batter into prepared pan.

3. Bake in a 350 degree oven about 45 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove from pan. Cool completely on a wire rack. Wrap and store overnight before slicing. Makes 1 loaf (16 servings).

 

Gathered all the ingredients

to make sure I had everything.

 

Made a well in the dry ingredients

 I used the mini muffin pans instead

of the 1 large loaf pan so I would have

loaves to freeze and a loaf to share.

I was surprised it only made 3 mini.

 

 

 I would not use flour to coat the pans next time. I would use powdered sugar. I made this recipe late at night and wasn't thinking. haha When I took the bread out of the pans it had a little bit of flour on the outside of the bread which I could taste and didn't like. The powdered sugar would have tasted better and still helped the bread slide out of the pan.

 

 

This bread was very good. You could taste the Apple Butter and still taste the bananas. Doris, a friend at work that says she is my "Official Taster" said it was very good too. I will definitely make this recipe again.