Yumminess

[serene]

[Posted to my personal journal and serenecooking]

The other day, I had three bananas that were about to be too ripe. Three bananas, in my childhood lexicon, means banana bread, so I wanted to make some. someotherguy, not surprisingly, was all for this plan. I remembered I had saved a recipe to my memories section that sounded good. It turned out to be this outstanding recipe from snippy. The cake part of this is so buttery and delicious, but still really lets the banana flavor shine through.

Tonight, jwermont was coming to dinner, and I wanted to make dessert. I didn't have bananas, but I did have a bag of frozen berries in the freezer (blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries, I think -- whatever the mixed-berry bag at Costco contains). So I mixed some berries with a little sugar and let them mostly thaw while I made the batter (minus the bananas, and with the addition of a little milk -- maybe a third of a cup -- to thin the batter a little). The batter was still pretty thick. I put the berries in the bottom of a tart pan, spread the batter over them like thick frosting, and baked at 350F until the top was brown and some of the berries were bubbling around the edges.

Oh. My. God. It's so good.

jwermont and I nearly demolished the whole thing, but I've saved a slice for someotherguy to have tomorrow, if I don't cave and eat it first.

Comments

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

That sounds just (well, other than the different berries) like the "New England Cranberry Pie" I used to make from a recipe in a pie-road-trip article in the New Yorker, though when I try searching on New England Cranberry Pie now, all I see is a more-standard sort of pie.

Hmmm ... there are three lonely bananas on the kitchen table right now ...

[baalitlaura.livejournal.com]

In my family too many over-ripe bananas meant we made banana bread too! And we always had this funny recipe I made my mom try when I was little from a sesame street book called "Big Bird's Banana Bread" but surprisingly she still uses it :)

[tracytreefrog.livejournal.com]

Yep same here over ripe bananas equaled banana bread. Your recipe sounds better than mine though. Don't you just love multipurpose recipes?