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Trader Joe's Tuesday: Banana Bread
Amy Faries • Mar 03, 2020
Moist and chewy, a delicious and easy banana bread you can whip up in a flash
A fun week for sure
This week was full of baking and adventure for sure! I made some geometric heart cakesicles that didn't exactly go to plan, but they still looked cute, thank goodness. Cakesicles are definitely a learning process for me. The painting method is my preferred method so far, since it has been a tiny bit easier. Unfortunately my candy melts are never thick enough when I paint and therefore you can still see the cake mixture hiding beneath that pesky surface. The trouble here is that I want the layers to be thick enough so you cant see the cake and the cakesicle doesn't crumble when being taken out of the mold. However, I don't want it too thick so that it is mostly candy melts.
My boyfriend and I went to Disney World last weekend and had a lovely stay-cation thanks to his aunt. It was such a relaxing time and the weather was absolutely perfect. Usually we are walking around Disney tired, miserable, and sweaty since it is so hot and humid. But not this time! It was a cool 60 ish degrees the entire time and was not crazy busy. We went to the Be Our Guest restaurant for lunch on our first day and let me tell you it was well worth the wait. Besides the prices being a little much the food was delicious and the ambiance inside the castle was amazing! I would highly recommend it. That night we watched the happily ever after firework show at Magic Kingdom and it was spectacularly magical. I really loved every part of it!
Banana Bread Time
Now onto our regularly scheduled programming. This banana bread! So the smell of the mixture was not my favorite. It had a fake banana powder smell that was not too pleasing to the nostrils. The back of the package did offer options if you wanted to use real bananas in addition, but I didn't have any ripe bananas on hand. Lily is obsessed with banana and goes through a bunch during the week so this left me in a banana-less state. I did have some toasted pecans on hand that I decided to add to the batter to give the bread a bit of crunch. The texture of this banana bread was a little more dense than I usually prefer when making banana bread but all in all this was not a horrible bake. It had a nice taste, despite the not so pleasant smell of the mix, and the banana flavor really did shine well throughout. The addition of the toasted pecans really elevated the flavor and let the banana notes shine. Heated up with a small amount of butter on a slice would be the perfect way to go with this in my opinion.
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