What is the difference between a Banana Bread and a Banana Cake? To me it is all about what baking pan you use in which you bake this sweet bread and also, the time or event you serve it to your guests.
Here are some pictures to show the difference in presenting this wonderful baked “recipe!”
Here is a pictures of my “Banana “Bread”……
And,the same recipe can be made/served like a….
“Banana Cake!”
Here is the recipe….
Banana ….Bread/Cake
1/2 cup butter (1 stick or 1/4 lbs)
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/2 cups banana pulp ( about 3 frozen very ripe bananas thawed)
1/2 cup Sour Cream
2 cups flour – not sifted
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 tsp Orange Flavor
Zest of one lemon
Zest of one orange
3/4 cup chopped almonds or walnuts or hazelnuts or pecans
1/2 cup raisins
½ cup shredded coconut – optional
½ cup chopped dried apricots
½ cup chocolate chips
Note: You can add as many, and any kind of dried fruit as you like and have in your pantry or refrigerator. The batter is moist enough to handle any addition of fruit….
Cream butter and sugar until very yellow and fluffy, then add the eggs one at a time and beating them thoroughly.
Mash the banana pulp with a fork and add it to the mixture above.
Add the flavors and zest into the mixture next.
Place a strainer over a bowl and sift the flour together with the baking soda. Add the flour mixture into the batter and mix gently but, well.
Place the nuts, raisins, chocolate chips and chopped Apricots into a separate bowl, and dust them with a little flour by mixing them together.
Now add the above mixture into the batter while alternating with the sour cream.
Mix well but do not over mix.
Bake the cake in loaf pans or a Bundt cake form – at 325 F until cake tester comes out clean, about 1 hr or a little longer.
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Maria Reisz Springer
Maja’s Viennese Kitchen
http://www.majaskitchen.com
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I would go with the cake. For me it still feels strange to call a cake „bread“ when it is baked in a loaf pan 😊
Looks delicious😋