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April 24, 2013

Jamaican Banana Bread

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jamaican banana bread
This was our dessert for our Earth Day dinner, following these sweet potato enchiladas. Holy deliciousness, this can’t possibly be a Cooking Light recipe, but it is!

We are a banana-loving family. We eat a ton, I buy a ton, so I end up making a banana boatload of recipes with the ones that are over-ripe. I “pinned” this recipe a long time ago on my Baketastic board over at Pinterest. I had three blackened bananas ready to go and luckily I remembered to look through my boards for an idea. I’ll say this for technology… for a right-brained, scattered, drowning-in-papers mom like me, it is a life-saver. Pinterest, Mint, Google docs and calendar, Snapfish and my blog are finally starting to whip me into shape in terms of keeping track of the mind-boggling amounts of information and ideas I deal with on a daily basis… so I am grateful for every electronic organizing tool I actually know how to use! 

I made just a few small changes to this original recipe. Taking a cue from my new Drop 10 cookbook, I replaced almost half the regular flour with oat flour, and the bread still turned out moist and delicious. I also added some cinnamon and all spice because, you know, it’s Jamaican! This bread only contains 3 tablespoons of butter and one egg, but you really would never guess. This is seriously my new favorite banana bread recipe, and I’ve tried a lot of banana bread recipes. Also, don’t be deterred by the long list of ingredients. This is truly a quick bread!

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Jamaican Banana Bread

Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Prep Time 10 minutes minutes
Cook Time 55 minutes minutes
Servings 8
Author Foodtastic Mom

Ingredients

Bread

  • 2 tbsp unsalted butter softened
  • 2 tbsp 1/3 less fat cream cheese softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 lg egg
  • 1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup oat flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp Jamaican allspice
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 cup mashed ripe banana about 3 medium
  • 1/2 cup skim milk
  • 2 tbsp dark rum
  • 1/2 tsp fresh grated lime juice
  • 2 tsp fresh lime juice
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/4 cup pecans chopped
  • 1/4 cup flaked sweetened coconut

Glaze

  • 1/4 cup light brown sugar
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 2 tsp fresh lime juice
  • 2 tsp dark rum
  • 2 tbsp pecans chopped and toasted
  • 2 tbsp flaked sweetened coconut

Instructions

Bread

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
  • Coat an 8x4 loaf pan with cooking spray and set aside.
  • Place the butter, cream cheese and sugar in a large bowl and beat with hand mixer until light and fluffy. Add egg and beat until well mixed.
  • Combine both flours, baking powder, cinnamon, allspice, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl and whisk together.
  • Combine the mashed banana, milk, rum, lime zest and juice and vanilla in a third bowl.
  • Add the flour mixture and banana mixture alternately to the butter mixture and beat until just combined.
  • Stir in the 1/4 cup pecans and 1/4 cup coconut.
  • Spread batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
  • If necessary, cover top of bread with foil for the last 10 or so minutes so the top doesn't brown too much - that is what I needed to do.
  • Remove bread from oven and allow to cool in pan for 10 minutes.

Glaze

  • While bread is cooling, combine the brown sugar, butter, lime juice and rum in a small saucepan and bring to a simmer. Cook for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
  • Remove the glaze from the heat and stir in the remaining pecans and coconut.
  • Remove the bread from the pan onto a cooling rack and evenly pour the glaze over the top of the bread.
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  1. Reed C Bowman says

    June 07, 2015 at 7:55 pm

    Er, 2 T. tub cream cheese? What is that measurement meant to be?

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    • foodtasticmom says

      June 07, 2015 at 10:24 pm

      Did not mean to be confusing, sorry. I used cream cheese from a tub container instead of the 8 oz. block that comes wrapped in foil and packaged in cardboard. The bread takes 2 tablespoons of 1/3 less fat cream cheese.

      Reply
  2. Lorna V Gray says

    May 13, 2018 at 8:41 pm

    I add grated nutmeg to my recipe to make it more delicious!!!!

    Reply
    • foodtasticmom says

      May 22, 2018 at 4:51 pm

      Fresh grated nutmeg is a wonderful addition!

      Reply

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