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Hawaiian Banana Nut Bread

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This is a family favorite. We tweaked the basic recipe and this is one of the first things that I learned to bake. It is wonderfully moist and great fresh from the oven with butter or cream cheese.

Ingredients

  • 3 cups Flour
  • 2 cups Sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
  • ½ teaspoons Salt
  • 1 Tablespoon Cinnamon
  • 2 cups Pecans Or Walnuts, Chopped
  • ½ cups Oil
  • 4 whole Peeled Bananas, Mashed
  • 8 ounces, weight Crushed Pineapple, Drained
  • 2 whole Eggs, Beaten
  • 1 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract
  • 1 Tablespoon Coconut Extract (optional)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix all dry ingredients together in large bowl.

Mix wet ingredients together in separate bowl.

Add wet ingredients to dry and mix until dry ingredients are moistened, making sure to scrape the sides thoroughly.

Grease two bread pans and evenly divide batter between pans. Bake for 45-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Remove to a cooling rack and allow to cool in the pan for 5-10 minutes. Remove from the pan to the rack to finish cooling.

Note: I sometimes do these in mini-loaf pans or muffin pans. Reduce cooking time to 30-45 minutes for smaller pans.

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sdodds92 on 2.15.2010

Being a HUGE FAN of banana nut bread, but only having had a few good ones, I searched to find a great recipe. May I just say, this bread is AMAZING! Oh man, the two loaves quickly dwindled to one loaf and now I am finding myself making two more loaves. Thank you SO much for sharing. I give this 5 stars (or 5 mitts)!!!!

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leah2021 on 2.12.2010

I have thrown coconut in it before too. That is good but I LOVE coconut.

I have also been known to use banana baby food when I didn’t have any ripe bananas!

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Vanessa on 2.5.2010

Delicious bread. I didn’t have coconut extract and was going to add a handful of coconut, but forgot to add it. I think the extract would add a definite “tropical” dimension. I will make these again using the extract.

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collegemom on 2.1.2010

This is THE BEST banana bread I have ever had. And this sentiment was shared by quite a few people. I followed the recipe with two exceptions…I didn’t have coconut flavoring (but I probably wouldn’t have used it anyway) and I only had 1/4 cup of oil in the pantry so I used 1/4 cup of mayonaise (!) along with it!! This recipe made 6 mini loafs and 2 dozen muffins. Thank you so much for sharing.

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moadermom on 4.18.2011

This is the best banana bread I have EVER made! It was so moist, and at the same time the outside was nice and crispy. It’s easy to mix up, and I like that it only has 1/2 cup of oil in it. Makes me feel like I’m being a tad healthy. :)

I didn’t have crushed pineapple, so I crushed up some pineapple chunks…worked just fine.

I will definitely discard all of my other banana bread recipes and keep this one! Thanks for the great recipe!

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