Banana Bread – Keke de Platano
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Banana Bread - Keke de Platano
January 1, 2019
Persons
10
Prep Time
45 minutes
Cook Time
50 minutes
Total Time
1 hour, 35 minutes
Notes
Serve by itself or with a scoop of ice cream. Can be served as a dessert, breakfast or snack.
Ingredients
- 125 grs. butter (equivalent: 9 tablespoons, or 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon)
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 4 ripe bananas
- 1 3/4 cups of all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 cup plain yogurt (or 1 cup of milk mixed with the juice of 1/2 a lemon or lime)
Instructions
- Mash the bananas with a fork in a container until it has the consistency of a puree.
- Sift the flour with the baking soda in a separate container.
- Place the butter and sugar in a mixer. Mix until it has a creamy texture.
- Add the eggs and continue mixing.
- Incorporate the mix of sifted flour with baking soda. Continue mixing until it is soft.
- Add the yogurt, the pureed banana, keep mixing.
- Finally, add the vanilla and mix a little more. Turn off the mixer.
- Cover the bottom and side of a rectangular bread mold, with butter and then flour. Remove the excess of flour. Pour the banana cake batter in the mold.
- Place in oven of 350 F for 50 minutes. Check with a cake tester to make sure it is cooked.
- Rest the mold on top of a rack. Allow to cool off.
- Sift the confectionary sugar all over the banana bread, making sure it covers the top section and sides of the banana bread.
As a child we had a banana tree at our garden in Lima, Peru. We baked this banana bread, also known in Spanish as Keke de Platano, and made many other desserts with banana, including banana cakes and banana pies.
Banana is a versatile fruit. It can be used in many desserts and toppings, also as side dishes. Banana bread origins can be traced to USA in the 1930s. During the 1930s depression, nothing would go to waste, thus making very ripe bananas, the perfect ingredient for a banana bread.
You can serve it at breakfast with your favorite jam or marmalade, or as a dessert later in the day. It can be served with ice cream as well as a dessert.
Cheers