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Strawberry Banana Bread
We had a wonderful time this past weekend at the Florida strawberry festival. My son got to ride all sorts of fun carnival rides, including the ferris wheel and bumper boats. The food smells drifting through the crowds were amazing. Along with delicious corn dogs, sausages, and of course strawberry shortcakes, there were the fair type foods, like deep fried corn on the cob, chocolate covered bacon, and various foods on sticks. We practiced some self-control and just shared a corn dog. We also walked around a bit, saw all the livestock, and talked to some of the kids showing their livestock so my son could pet their prize animals. He was happy. My husband also won our son a giant lady bug that had high heels and hearts on her back.
On the way out of the festival, I couldn’t pass up all the fresh fruits and vegetables. I got a huge flat of strawberries, lots of fresh tomatoes and some onions. This morning I made this strawberry banana bread to help use up some over ripe bananas and some of the strawberries. I’ve got several more strawberry recipes planned this week, before turning what strawberries we don’t eat fresh into homemade preserves.
Strawberry Banana Bread
Ingredients
1/2 cup, or 1 stick melted butter
3 very ripe bananas
1 cup sliced fresh strawberries
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Method
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mash up bananas in a large mixing bowl. Add butter and sugar. Mix well. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix again. Sift together baking soda, flour and salt. Add to other ingredients and mix until just combined. Fold in sliced strawberries.
2. Grease a loaf pan with nonstick spray or butter. Pour batter into loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees until golden brown and bread passes toothpick test, about 60 minutes.
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11 Comments
Jada commented on Mar 07 11 at 8:59 pmAwesome! Looks so yummy. I live about 10 minutes away from where the Strawberry Festival is!
Cathy commented on Mar 07 11 at 10:26 pmOh, this looks so yummy! I have to give it a try soon.
Amber | Bluebonnets & Brownies commented on Mar 08 11 at 9:11 amIn a very bizarre coincidence, I happen to have all of these ingredients right *now*, which almost never happens. Just printed the recipe, this is getting made TODAY!
RJ Flamingo commented on Mar 08 11 at 9:17 amLove strawberry season! Just sorry I couldn’t make it up to the Strawberry Festival, myself – I probably would have gone wild. :-) The combo of strawberries and bananas in this are right on target!
Peter commented on Mar 08 11 at 2:42 pmI am definitely going to have this made for me. I physically cannot or I would.
The combination of bananas and strawberries is magnificent!
Kristen commented on Mar 10 11 at 4:51 pmWhat a great idea. I love the addition of straberries in a banana bread recipe!
sweet road commented on Mar 10 11 at 6:58 pmWhat a great combo! I love baking strawberries into things and I now realize how rarely I do it!
Stella commented on Mar 21 11 at 8:40 amTried this bread out over the past weekend and it turned out absolutely amazing! On hand ingredients and SO easy to make in my stand mixer I could easily make this weekly. I love that it has a lot banana flavour and that the strawberries compliment the sweetness of the banana. Fantastic recipe!
Stella commented on Jun 21 11 at 8:10 amJust wanted to mention that I’m making this bread weekly as I thought I would in a previous post and this past weekend I made it using blueberries instead of strawberries and it came out absolutely amazing! I can’t get over how great this recipe is. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Aimee commented on Mar 21 12 at 11:18 amJust had a question. It lists both baking soda and powder but only explains to put the soda in. Was there a misprint somewhere?
DeeAnna commented on Apr 07 12 at 3:16 pmI noticed that too. I just used BOTH baking powder and soda and also had to bake it for 80 mins not 60. Smells and tastes AWESOME though:)
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