Banana Gingerbread Recipe With Brown Butter Glaze
Yup. This Banana Gingerbread Recipe looks as good as it tastes.. a combination of 2 strong flavors: banana and gingerbread mixed under a deliciously creamy blanket of brown butter glaze.
This Banana Gingerbread Recipe is so easy to prepare and yet it’s filled with complex flavors that complement each other perfectly. The smell of banana while it’s baking is amazing. The bread is moist, soft, and perfect for your Holiday breakfast/brunch.
Coming up with this recipe wasn’t easy, since the challenge was to keep the gingerbread from overpowering the banana. To resolve this issue I did 2 things: reduce the amounts of cinnamon, ginger, and clove. Also, I mashed the bananas but kept a few chunks in the batter. Every bite you take has a banana inside. Yum!
You can make the batter beforehand and bake when needed. The glaze spreads much better when the bread comes out of the oven and is hot. What I did was start to cook it as soon as the bread came out of the oven. The butterscotch-vanilla flavor from the glaze is so delicious with the gingerbread and banana. I wanted to lick that red bowl so bad!
To make this Banana Gingerbread Recipe you need very ripe bananas. If you don’t have these on hand, don’t worry! There’s a nifty little trick to get them ripened in minutes!
That’s right, you heard me, minutes. Just place your bananas with peel and all on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper. Bake for 30-40 minutes at 300 Degrees F or until the peel becomes black. Let them cool in the fridge and mash..
That’s it!
Another flavor infuser in the bread is the use of butter over oil. To me, oil helps with batter consistency and texture but offers no flavor at all. Butter does the same thing and gives a nice flavor to the bananas.
I hope you can try my delicious Banana Gingerbread Recipe and let me know how it comes out. My family loved it.
Banana Gingerbread Recipe With Brown Butter Glaze
Ingredients
For Banana Gingerbread
- 1 1/2 Cup All Purpose Flour
- 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 1/2 Cup Unsalted butter softened
- 2 Eggs
- 2 Bananas ripe and mashed
- 1 1/2 Teaspoon of Cinnamon
- 1/2 Teaspoon Cloves
- 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
- 1 1/2 Teaspoons Ginger
- 2 Tablespoons Sour Cream
For Brown Butter Glaze
- 2 Tablespoons Butter
- 1 Cup Powdered Sugar
- 1 1/2 Tablespoons Milk
- 1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla
Instructions
For Banana Gingerbread
- Preheat oven to 350 Degrees F.
- Grease a loaf pan with nonstick spray or butter
- In a mixer, cream the butter and sugar for 3-5 minutes
- In a bowl, combine the flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and ginger
- Add the eggs, sour cream, and bananas to the mixer. Mixture will look broken up and crumbly
- Finally add the flour slowly and mix until combined
- Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour
- Unmold unto a baking rack to cool down
For Brown Butter Glaze
- Melt butter over Medium-low heat until it turns an amber color and starts to smell nutty (3-5 minutes)
- Pour sugar in a bowl and add the butter and milk. Mix until mixture become thick but runny
- Spread glaze all over the warm bread
- Enjoy
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This banana bread looks amazing! I’m adding it to my ‘to bake’ list. It would probably be delicious with cookie butter also. Thanks for the recipe!
Thanks so much Sarah!