I struggled this weekend to decide on what to bake. Looking in my fridge, it is loaded with fresh fruits - apples, pears, oranges, plums, blueberries and some really ripe bananas.
Banana bread sounds so dull to me these days that I steer clear away from it. I'm a smoothie girl too so I make quite a bit of that with frozen bananas. But these days, I've gone down to only 1 smoothie a week so you can imagine that I have plenty of frozen bananas stocked up. I'm also on a cinnamon craze, so why not combine the two? There's always a saying: When life hands you overripe bananas, make banana bread! Or something like that...
I actually know some people who don't like the texture of bananas but once you make it into a cake or muffin or cookies - it will disappear in seconds.
This version of banana loaf is not your average one though. It's more of a dressy, centre-piece type of loaf cake. This lifts up the humble banana bread into something special. Now your everyday banana bread has turned into dessert - not just for breakfast or a snack.
To think that up until 2 years ago, I'm not a fan of cinnamon. What made me change my mind was a Snickerdoodles recipe from Saveur: The New Comfort Food cookbook. I've made it so many times and had so many requests from friends to make and remake it. It tasted amazing too and I never looked back ever since.
I will surely be making this banana loaf cake again. Perhaps for a special occasion...or when there's overripe bananas.
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