This is the recipe I followed when I had my friends stay over. It was my sweet something to take on the trip back to school. It's an easy banana bread recipe with common ingredients, to follow the Food Network recipe is above. I ended up using cupcake tins instead to make banana muffins :) I also substituted in vegan butter for regular butter, almond milk in place of regular milk, and truvia sugar for granulated sugar. Some things to keep in mind if you use these replacements:
- Using container vegan butter, it’s by character not as solid as butter. Same goes if you use any type of butter in a container (butter like “I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter” style, or Country Crock). To counter that more liquid state (because recipe calls for creaming of butter and sugar) I used whole wheat flour in place of regular flour because whole wheat flour is more dense by nature. This also has a conversion. Typically it’s ¾ cup of whole wheat flour for every cup of normal flour if you choose to substitute one for the other.
- If you use truvia in place of regular granulated sugar, remember THERE IS A CONVERSION. Truvia is sweeter than regular sugar so use less (there’s a conversion on the back of the container, just be on the look out ;) A quarter cup of regular granulated sugar = one tablespoon + two teaspoons of truvia (so in this recipe you do four tablespoons and eight teaspoons of truvia)
- If you choose to take the banana bread recipe and make it muffin or cupcake sized, be mindful that the time will differ from what the recipe says. So just check on the 'lil guys every now and then with the old clean toothpick method :)
For everything else I followed the recipe! Some good add ins are roasted walnuts...always roast your nuts before baking/cooking because it brings out their oils and flavor (@Duff from Kid's Baking Championship we hear you). I also personally just always roast nuts cause they’re just so dang gooooood.
I didn’t think about a garnish at the time I made these, but if I had more time I would have garnished these cuties with oats! Add oats (sprinkle some Quaker's Oats action) on the top of the muffins while they’re in the oven, maybe ½ - ¾ of the way into the baking time. It just gives them that Panera muffin vibe, ya feel.
Happy baking!
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