Recipe: "Banana Bread Brownies"

[ysabetwordsmith]

I have bananas getting overripe, so I decided to try out this recipe for Banana Bread Brownies.  While not identical to what I remember from growing up -- it's actually kind of bread-pudding-esque -- it is very tasty.  :D  Hard to go wrong with half a cup of cocoa powder.  This is a good thing to make if you like chocolate and have a couple of bananas giving up the ghost.

For what it's worth, I like hippie recipes, and they tend to have some common threads.  Using olive oil instead of butter, bananas or other fruit as sweetener and binder, and less or no refined sugar are examples.  This recipe uses olive oil, mashed bananas, and only 1 cup of refined sugars.  The original called for coconut sugar but I used white because that's what I have.  Also it took 27 minutes in my oven rather than 17, but that's okay.

Comments

[siliconshaman]

Bookmarked that, bananas are a staple in this house, and in summer months it's hard to use them all before that start going over.

[caera_ash]

One of my favorite banana bread recipes is from the 1946 edition of The Joy of Cooking, which is really not hippie recipes, but the book does have a love of whole grain and bread flours where ap flour is often used today (for muffins, pancakes, etc) and I love the difference in filling-ness and texture that results. I hadn't even known about graham flour before I started looking through the book! I've heard a lot of mean things about western cooking at the time, and yeah there isn't a huge variety on spicing things, but main ingredients tend to be a lot more varied and creatively used than most modern cookbooks I've found. And I have yet to have a recipe come out badly even when it wasn't to everyone's taste.

[narya_flame]

Ooh this sounds delicious!

[siberian_skys]

That sounds tasty. Anything that resembles bread pudding has my vote. :-)

[greghousesgf]

Bananas and chocolate go great together! There's a banana chocolate chip sheet cake I've made for picnics and parties and people usually love it.
Coconut sugar's hard to get ahold of. Maybe it'd be easier if I lived in Hawaii.

[fyreharper]

We just finished up the latest loaf of banana bread here - I’ve discovered that if I leave out the oil and put in Even More Banana (2c mashed, altogether!) it is Even Better! Will have to wait for more bananas to need saving before I try additional variations ;)