Cranana Chumpkin Bread - Lori's Cookbook
This is my entry for this week's @foodfightfriday challenge.
What happens when you take a recipe and twist it? It becomes your own!
I took a pumpkin-banana bread recipe and added cranberries and chocolate chips to it. But when you say all those things at the same time, the recipe becomes a bit unwieldy.
Introducing my...
Cranana Chumpkin Bread!
Process
(This time, I was making a double recipe.)
Begin by:
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Grease and flour 2-3 bread pans.
Mash:
- 2 over-ripe bananas (picture shows 4 because I was making a double recipe.)
Add:
- 1 cup soaked cranberries (mine were leftover from making cranberry juice)
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
(Picture shows the double recipe I was making.)
Set this bowl aside.
In a clean bowl, mash with the back of a wooden spoon:
- 1/3 cup softened butter
(picture shows double recipe.)
Mash into the butter (this process is called creaming):
- 1 1/3 cup granulated sugar
This is what it looks like afterwards. It doesn't have to be perfect for this recipe, but the butter should be well-incorporated into the sugar.
Stir in:
- 4 eggs
- 1/3 cup oil (I almost always use olive oil)
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
This is how it looks afterwards. You can use a hand mixer if you desire, but for this recipe it's not critical. The butter will melt during baking.
Stir in:
- 3 1/2 cups flour
- 3 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
(Picture shows my double recipe.)
Carefully stir in:
- mixed fruit (from earlier)
- chocolate chips (I used a large bag for my double recipe - add what you think feels right for you.)
My batter is ready for the oven.
Spoon/pour into the prepared bread pans. Never fill the pan more than about 2/3 full or it will rise over the top of the pan!
Bake 50 minutes at 350F. Cover with foil (if you like - I didn't) and bake another 10 minutes until a knife or skewer pushed into the middle of the bread comes out clean (or with only molten chocolate!)
Allow to cool before removing from the pans. Butter if desired.
Recipe Card
As always, feel free to print these out and put them in your recipe collection.
Two of my kitchen witches. One hung in my grandmother's kitchen as long as I can remember, so I have mine - adding a certain magickal spice to my cooking, presumably...
My grandmother's now lives in my mother's kitchen.
Previous recipes in Lori's Cookbook
(Links are for Steem... For Whaleshares and WeKu, simply place whaleshares.io or main.weku.io where the steempeak.com is.)
Holidays (Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc.)
Cranberry-Berry Sauce (canning too)
Breakfasts
Easy Suppers
Dirty Mac & Cheese
Simple Cheeseburgers
Spanish Rice
Italian Meatballs
Spaghetti and Meatballs
Main Courses
Fathead Stromboli
Garlic Curry Baked Drumsticks
Side Dishes
Turmeric Rice
Garlic-Herb Bread
Breads
No-Knead Bread
Fathead Dough - a grain free substitute for many bread situations!
Snacks
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Sauces
Spaghetti Sauce
Basic Salsa
Garlic-Herb Butter
Desserts
Peach Cornmeal Cobbler
Tapioca Pudding
Canning
Rebel Canning - a general guide about what I do, and why I don't always follow USDA guidelines.
Cranberry-Berry Sauce
Meatballs and Spaghetti Sauce
Note: All photos are mine - Pentax K30, Kodak Z981 (hubby's camera)
Crossposted at Steem, Whaleshares, WeKu
Lori Svensen
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You are welcome! It looks like a great recipe!
That looks really good ! Is it sweet?
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Mildly sweet.
Yummy...feeling hungry 😋
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Yummm! Give me all the cranana munchkin (punchkin?), pumpachip bread you got. This looks so good. I’m missing all my pumpkin everything this year. I will live vicariously through all y’all but between you and me… this recipe takes the cake (or do I mean canana?). Haha. Happy holidays to you and yours @viking-ventures.
Hahahaha - thank you so much. Yeah, coming up with the right word isn't easy in this case! Happy holidays to you as well.
All the words are probably not as delicious as the actual bread anyway. Knockin it out of the park @viking-ventures
I really need to find a low-carb version... I'm being good and not eating it this time... ;-)
I hear ya! I was just telling @dandays that when we get back home I’m going to work on diabetic, vegan, gluten and sugar free versions. Eeeekkk, sounds like I have my work cut out for me 🥶
Yep, your work cut out for sure! The problem with most sugar-free versions is that they're using artificial (or similar-ish) sweeteners. I'd go for a honey/maple syrup version myself, then replace the flour with a paleop blend or something... That's a level of playing I'm not as good at.
I was thinking a coconut/almond flour blend with a stevia/xylitol blend. Both are all natural and derived from plants. 🤷🏼♀️ Probably wouldn’t be half of good though. Before we left the states I started sweetening everting with apple sauce I made from a cheese grater. My husband and I thought it was delicious but for a diabetic I believe it’s still too much sugar.
The coconut/almond flour is a good blend for sure. Stevia and xylitol are a bit expensive for me, but then, I don't bake very much right now. Knowing, however, that everything sweet will trigger an insulin response, I am less afraid of sugars than I am of grains. I did cave in and had a slice yesterday and my blood pressure shot up (far more than it did after having some crustless pumpkin pie... and yes, I did take pictures of that too...), so I really need to take the grain thing seriously.
Looking yummy 😋
Thank you !
yummy you made me hungry, you have to surely treat me one day 😋🤤
Come and visit me in Wyoming and I will do that! :-)
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I hope that my wishes come true someday. Then I will be there for sure.😋
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Oh, Crananacrap! Crananaguy get a Crananaslice of that?!
Sorry, Wyoming is closed right now... ;-)
(seriously, big snow storm - we were isolated for most of the day.)
9" on the ground.
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Wow, this makes me wanna try out and I can tell I'm not the sweet tooth... Thanks for this awesome bread idea!
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I love this that it's sweet, but not too sweet. Most of the sweetness comes from the fruit and chocolate.
My pleasure! Good to know, I'm definitely gonna do this soon! For the children 😁 😉
Looks just like a Jamaican Easter bun with a lot more sweetness. I love the creativity.
Thanks. It would be interesting to try one of your Jamaican Easter buns. Sound good!
You would love it - should be easy to find anywhere in the Western Hemisphere
Looks like the ol’ fruit cake is gonna be used as a parking block this year. It’s time for Cranana upgrade!!! Chocolate chips... what!?!?
Everything is better with chocolate! ... or cheese ... or bacon... Gotta have bacon...
My mouth is watering and my belly is rumbling. I have got to try this one out for myself @viking-ventures. You are so creative with your little twists, I do the same thing a lot of times because I don't have whatever in the frig, so I scour around to find something else to fill in the blanks.
But that combo, oh yea, send me a big hunk.😊
Glad to give you a new idea! And yes, I'm known to change things according to what I have. Sometimes, the trick is working out where to stop (before the recipe completely implodes...)
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Looks absolutely delicious @viking-ventures. I read @farm-mom's reply and I will make sure that she is true to her word. I cant wait to try her version of this scrumptious delight.
Thank you!
Just make sure she's grabbed the edited version on this page... I missed the pumpkin pie spice the first try... but it's now on the page and the recipe cards.