I'm a banana bread fanatic. Actually, I love all bread. Banana, Pumpkin, Ciabatta, Zucchini, Whole wheat, French.. any bread. It's really a miracle that I don't weigh 200lbs.

I really liked this recipe, it modified well, really moist and it ended up being a little crunchy because of the home ground wheat flour. The original recipe came from the Silver Plate, which is a great cookbook, but I didn't want a ton of butter or sugar so.... here's my version

Sort of Silver Palate Cookbook Banana Bread: makes 24 muffins or 2 loaves

1/2 stick butter, room temp and 1.5 c flax
1/2 c brown sugar plus 1/4 to 1/2 cup honey or other sweetener
4 eggs
3 c whole wheat flour. I used really corsely ground flour, you could use regular wheat and add 1/4c millet to mimic the texture
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 c bran and 1/2 c germ
7 large ripe bananas
1 t vanilla extract


1. Preheat oven to 325 and get out two muffin tins or two loaf pans. Grease pans or use muffin cups. 
2. Cream butter and sugar together until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time and beat. Add banana and beat till smooth-ish
3. Add dry and wet ingredients to butter mixture, beginning and ending with the dry 
4. Bake at 325 for approx 20 min for muffins and approx 55 for loaf pans

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