Red Velvet Banana Bread
Red velvet banana bread is a quick bread with a cake like texture. Its moist, delicious and perfect for breakfast, dessert or as a snack.
- Reading time
- 1 MIN READ
- Ingredients
- 14 INGREDIENTS
- Step photos
- 7 PHOTOS
Red velvet banana bread is a quick bread with a cake-like texture. It's moist, delicious, and perfect for breakfast, dessert, or as a snack.
INGREDIENTS / 14
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3/4 cup melted butter or oil
- 1 1/4 cups mashed bananas
- 2 large eggs
- 1/4 cup buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon liquid red food colour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
METHOD / 07
1 MIN READ
- 01
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a loaf pan with butter. Set aside.
- 02
Add all the dry ingredients into a big bowl, In another bowl mash the bananas with a fork (it doesn't have to be smooth). Crack the eggs into a bowl, melt the butter, add the red food colour to the buttermilk and mix to combine.
- 03
Mix together the dry ingredients, mix together the wet ingredients plus the vanilla extract and pour the wet into dry.
- 04
Mix just until moistened. Do not over mix.
- 05
Pour batter into the loaf pan and bake in the preheated oven for 45 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- 06
Remove from oven and place on a wire rack to cool for about 10 minutes.
- 07
Take bread out of the pan and cool completely.
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RECIPE BY
Dolapo Grey
PUBLISHED JUNE 26, 2020
