The Finest Banana Bread with Praline Toffee Crunch Topping

Creator Notes

Now not too unparalleled elephantine, properly risen, so very tasty. I if truth be told accept as true with tried so many banana bread recipes that were disappointing in model, upward thrust and crumb. Right here is my advent that is that if truth be told the finest banana bread you will every bake. You would perhaps perhaps well be ready to win a 9X5 loaf or 8 jumbo desserts. I experimented with cream cheese and butter and stumbled on that too unparalleled elephantine is a killer for a super crumb and upward thrust. This recipe has a tremendous high crown with that signature crack within the center. You would perhaps perhaps well be ready to use all-motive or white complete wheat flour and add nuts within the event you cherish extra crunch. I take advantage of my stand mixer on low tempo and add pieces of butter to the dry ingredients. That is the paste way and is a technique for prime ratio desserts that stops the batter from separating and bakes a finer textured cake. I realized this fashion of blending desserts from Slash Malgieri in his book Ideal Desserts. He is a colossal baker and trainer. My experiment here worked properly on this banana bread. What makes this banana bread even greater is the Praline Toffee Crunch Topping. Ride. —Lorraine Fina Stevenski

Ingredients

• Batter:
• 
  2 cups
  
  all-motive flour or white complete wheat flour (King Arthur is the finest!)
  
• 
  1- ¹/₂ teaspoons
  
  baking powder
  
• 
  1 teaspoon
  
  baking soda
  
• 
  ³/₄ teaspoon
  
  Kosher salt
  
• 
  ³/₄ cup
  
  sugar, or 1/2 cup within the event you cherish much less sweet
  
• 
  ¹/₂ cup
  
  butter, 1 stick, softened but aloof chilly
  
• 
  2-3
  

  ripe bananas
  

• 
  ¹/₂ cup
  
  buttermilk, lowfat or elephantine elephantine OK
  
• 
  2
  

  colossal eggs
  

• 
  2 teaspoons
  
  pure vanilla extract
  

• Topping:
• 
  ¹/₄ cup
  
  pecan pralines
  
• 
  ¹/₄ cup
  
  toffee bits
  
• 
  1 teaspoon
  
  cinnamon sugar mix