Zucchini-banana bread

This makes two loaves or however many cupcakes you can fit (haven't actually tried that). Let's say maybe 2 dozen?

The recipe makes a nice dense loaf very moist and it will stay that way, due to the honey in the mix which attracts moisture from the air.

You can of course adjust the spices to your own tastes, the cardamom is just what I had in the cabinet, nutmeg is alway respectable. I love the flavor of cardamom sometimes I drop a pod into my pot of coffee for that extra pop of flavor.

3 cups of AP Flour
1 stick unsalted butter
1 cup Brown Sugar
1 cup honey
4 eggs
2 large banana
2 cup grated zucchini
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1.5 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp cardamom


Preheat oven 350 degrees.
Lube your loaf pans.

Cream the butter, add the sugar and the honey slowly until its nice a incorporated.
Add the banana, and then the eggs one at a time until everything is mixed up.

Sift the flour, soda, salt and spices together, fold into the liquid mix.
When its starting to look like a batter then fold in the zucchini and pour into two well greased loaf pans.

Bake for about an hour, until the tops look nice and brown and a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Cool for bit, then pull the loaves out of the pans and onto a cutting board. I usually put a paper towel underneath to keep them from sticking.

Once they are cool go ahead and wrap one in tinfoil and hide it in the back of the freezer so on Sunday you can pull some out for brunch. Better yet, walk next door and give it to your neighbor. You do know them don't you? If not, what's a better icebreaker than some homemade goodies.

Slice, note the warmth, and the smell of the cake, look at the texture thick dense full of expected flavor. Do you see banana chunks? Note that the zucchini completely disappears.

Can you pick out the spices? No? Then you didn't put in enough. Remember the kids are going to eat it, teach them to enjoy the spice and not accept the bland whitebread that pop culture pushes at them.

Ready for that first bite? It'll never taste as good as this first piece, you can try toasting it and it will be respectable (especially with a slather of soft lucious butter) but nothing like this piece.

This is your piece, the cooks piece.

Do you have big cold glass of milk ready?

enjoy!

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