Bad Girl Being Good, Banana Bread

[austux]

Wish I could really review this delish sounding recipe, but I'm hitting the sack now to wake up to a crossing of the Nullarbor Plain, which will take us a few long, dreary days behind the wheel, and in times where food of any sort is most welcome.

I'll see how much influence I can get over ingredient acquisition http://maps.google.com/?z=6&ll=-30.826781,121.025391&spn=9.861262,14.458008&om=1 at Coolgardie on the way through, headed East.

[cellophanetower]

absolutely delicious.  I doubled the chocolate.  reduced the sugar.  and feel no guilt about doing so.

my bananas were frozen, so i steamed them to room temperature (which liquified them internally, making it easier to mash).

thanks!  excellent bread! 

[austux]

I'm hitting the sack now to wake up to a crossing of the Nullarbor Plain, which will take us a few long, dreary days behind the wheel, and in times where food of any sort is most welcome.

3,000 and some kilometers later, we're here: http://tullah.fit2.bur.st/ which is a pleasant place but has just one shop, a kind of glorified deli. They try hard, and have a pretty good range for what they are, & do cover John & Joan Average reasonably well (~250 people live here) but it ain't fancy.

I'll spend more time (& $) shopping when we're in Burnie tomorrow, which means I need to have a break now to "shop" through recipes to decide what I need by way of stock, even for simple things like this yummy recipe. At least bananas are sane prices again (AUD$2/kg instead of AUD$13/kg), so I'm looking forward to trying this out. (-:

[9limes]

Unfortunately this did not work out well for me.  It did not cook in the middle, even after leaving it in the oven for a really long time and raising the oven temperature. I did use spelt flour, and baked it in a loaf pan. Maybe those variations led to the banana bread bummer....... But thanks for posting the recipe. When I slice it thin and throw it in the toaster, it's quite tasty!

[oktokrewl]

so.. some changes..
 i made a triple recipe cuz i had about 15 super ripe on the verge of unusable bananas from food not bombs that i needed to use up fast.. so i substituted banana for the applesauce, used coconut milk instead of almond, upped the sugar to nearly a cup each (yeah i know its more like cake than bread now hehe), and increased the oats while decreasing the flour..

i mixed all the wet ingredients together in a large pot and cooked it till it boiled for about 15 mins, since it was quite heavy on the bananas/liquid.. and i mixed in the carob chips while it was still warm... that made the bread/cake uniformly carob-y, without the chips.. then i baked it all in muffin pans since someone earlier said it didnt cook enough in the middle..

 it came out so awesome! (tho i did have to cook them for about and hour) like a super rich gooey brownie.. oh man they are good.. im just sad i made like 50+ of them cuz i cant stop eating them heheh..