Not Just Banana Bread

Who doesn't love banana bread? Well, if you're one of the millionth of a percentile who doesn't, you can stop reading and go back to your sad life. For the rest of us, let's get back to discussing a truly lovely thing: banana bread. From what I've learned from my family, there are only two kinds of banana bread: with nuts and without. I'm here to open up some new possibilities in both realms. 
I started off by calling my sister-in-law, Emily, for her recipe for basic banana bread. I'd seen her two and four year olds devour hers day after day until it was gone and sampled it myself. 
Then, I added my need to funk things up by figuring out what I could use instead of boring old lemon juice.
Lastly, I took the batter from its' traditional large loaf pan to mini loaf pans because they're just so cute! Now, who's ready for a delectable treat?

Banana Bread

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp cinnamon
• pinch of salt
• 1 egg
• 1 cup banana, mashed
• 1/4-1/2 cup grapefruit, diced (or 1 tsp lemon juice)
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup oil
• 1/4-2/3 cup pecans, chopped (optional)

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350. Grease one regular loaf pan or 7-8 mini loaf pans and dust with cinnamon and sugar.
• In small bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Set aside.
• In large bowl, mix eggs, bananas, grapefruit, sugar, oil and pecans. Add flour mixture and mix very well.
• Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and sprinkle top with cinnamon and sugar.
• Bake 15-30 minutes for mini loaves and 50 minutes for regular loaf.

Tips:

• use any other fruit in place of grapefruit.
• use whatever nuts you prefer instead of pecans.
• if you really don't want to, you don't have to sprinkle the pan and top of loaves with cinnamon and sugar. 
• use some sort of chocolate chips instead of nuts

With Grapefruit

With Mango

 With Orange