Recipes

This easy bread recipe is very versatile.  Enjoy terrific banana bread, apple bread, or zucchini bread.  Go crazy and add stuff – nuts, raisins, dried cranberries, whatever!  It all works.  You might as well make extra loaves, it freezes very well.

Dry Ingredients:

3 cups all purpose flour

3 tsp cinnamon for zucchini and apple OR ½ tsp allspice for banana)

1 tsp baking soda

¼ tsp baking powder

½ tsp salt

Chopped nuts, optional

Wet Ingredients:

1 cup oil

3 eggs

2 tsp vanilla

2 cups grated zucchini OR 2 mashed bananas OR 2 peeled, chopped apples

2 cups sugar

Directions:

• About 15 minutes before baking, preheat oven to 325 degrees.

• Wisk dry ingredients together in one bowl.
• Wisk wet ingredients together in another bowl (then stir in zucchini or banana).

• Gently fold wet and dry ingredients together with a spatula until just combined.

• Spray a long loaf pan with plenty of cooking spray and then line long side of the pan with parchment (the ends will not be lined)

• Pour batter into loaf pan and bake for 40 minutes, turn and bake for about 30 more minutes.  Bread is done when toothpick comes out clean.
• Carefully remove from pan (using the parchment to help) and cool on a cooling rack.

From the recipe files of Rabbit Hill Inn