Bourbon Banana Bread
Bourbon Banana Bread with Pistachios has hints of bourbon through with the crunch of pistachio and sweet bananas. Bake and take because it’s too dangerous to keep at home!
Welcome to the spring edition of #FreakyFriday! I love participating in this event. I get to cook from delicious blogs like Life Currents! Debi is such an amazing blogger and I have enjoyed getting to cook from her blog.
If you’re not in the know on what #FreakyFriday is, it’s a group of bloggers that get together and cook from each other’s blogs and share their recipes. Of course, who you’re assigned to is a complete secret until posting day and we get to see who had whose blog.
That’s the fun part for me! I try to guess by the titles which one is mine. Sometimes I’m right! Then it’s always fun when the blog owner you cooked from finds your recipe. One round, I made a recipe that was posted so long ago that they completely forgot about it and didn’t realize it was their recipe. THAT was funny!
Debi at Life Currents is much like me. I’m not a huge fan of eating out a lot. It makes my tongue feel like a salt lick. Seriously. This week has killed me for eating not homemade food. Monday I had NO energy and needed to do blog stuff. Tuesday I had to work late so he got Popeyes. Last night was my last work night of the week so we ordered in. Tonight, I’m pushing for hot dogs. I don’t want to eat in again tonight.
I am trying, unsuccessfully I might add, at reducing our food waste. Debi at Life Currents tries to compost, recycle, and use as much of the food as possible. I think we all could try to do this better! I even saved the rinds from cheese to make a broth. Can I just say, I can’t wait to try that!
Life Currents isn’t just about food. There’s DIYs, crafts, organization tips. Debi’s blog has a little bit of everything! I hope you head over there and check it out.
Now, on to the food!! I had a short turn around on this assignment. But I couldn’t wait to dive into her blog! She has lemon sandwich cookies. I was oh so tempted to try these. I love me some lemon sandwich cookies. Then I saw her Cook’s Country Dakota bread. I am a total sucker for fresh baked bread and this one looks amazing.
I was looking for something to make for breakfast. A bake and take to work type of recipe I could whip up with what I had on hand. Like the baked French toast casserole! I had all those ingredients, but wasn’t sure how well that would go over at work. I almost made the savory spinach & parmesan muffins, but I was out of parm. How that happened I have no idea.
Then I saw the bourbon banana walnut bread and knew that was the recipe to make! I had two bananas just hanging out waiting to be cooked up. And of course, I had bourbon! I had honey bourbon to boot! I had walnuts, but swapped those out for pistachios. That’s the only change I made to her recipe. I’m a total nut for pistachios and just had some freshly chopped for another recipe.
Just look at that bread! You see why I say you need to bake and take because I could have eaten the whole loaf in one sitting. You can see how moist and delicious it is. There’s those banana flavor flecks throughout. You know what I’m talking about right? Those brown flecks?
Anyway.
Then you see ALL those pistachios!! They’re so good. They add a different flavor you’re not expecting from a banana bread. It’s usually pecans or walnuts. Nope! I threw in amazing pistachios to this fabulous recipe!!
Bourbon Banana Bread
Bourbon Banana Bread with Pistachios has hints of bourbon through with the crunch of pistachio and sweet bananas. Bake and take because it's too dangerous to keep at home! #FreakyFriday
Ingredients
- 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon fine grain salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 5 1/3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs lightly beaten
- 2 very ripe bananas mashed
- 1/2 cup coarsely chopped pistachios
- 1 tablespoon bourbon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350° F.
- Stir the flour together with the salt, baking soda, and baking powder in a mixing bowl with a whisk. Set aside.
- Cream the butter and sugar together with a hand mixer until combined and the mixture is light in texture.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, stirring after each addition.
- Stir in the bananas until combined.
- Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and add the egg mixture. Stir until just combined.
- Fold in the bourbon and the pistachios.
- Pour the batter into a 9 x 5 loaf pan coated with cooking spray or butter and bake at 350° F for 50-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes mostly clean.
- Cool the bread in the pan 5 to 10 minutes before removing from the pan and cooling completely. If you can resist the urge to slice and slather with butter.
Notes
Adapted from a recipe from Life Currents.
#FreakyFriday Spring 2017
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- Aunt Bee’s Recipes – Summer Corn Salsa
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Wow, this banana bread sounds amazing. I mean bourbon hello? I’ll be making this one!
It was FAHbulous!! And the bourbon adds a delicious “what’s the flavor?” element. I’ll be making it again….
We eat our fair share of banana bread around here, I have never once thought to put pistachios in it, until now! What a fantastic idea!! THANK YOU!!
OMG you should! I made one with pistachios and chai spices in it. I loved it! The hubs, not so much. I’ve put cashews in it, too, if I had coconut in there. You gotta change up your banana bread every now and then.
Woah, this looks like the ultimate banana bread!
It is!! Life Currents made a kick-ass recipe!
Banana bread is always a winner but with bourbon is should be considered health food and a necessity!!
I agree!! It’s so delicious with that extra layer of flavor.
I love the combination – bourbon & pistachios, so yummy! I’m thinking this with some whipped cream…mmmm!
MMmmmmm that sounds ah-mazing! And maybe a scoop of ice cream. SUNDAE!! YUM!
I love the fact that this has pistachios—so different from the usual walnuts! Delicious!
Ageed! I get bored with the typicals. Why not Brazil nuts or hazelnuts? Who says banana bread has to have walnuts or pecans in it? NOT I!
What a genius idea for flavor combinations; the bourbon puts this beautiful loaf completely over the top! Do you ship?!
Hahahahaa. Dan, for you, of course!! How many loaves would you like?
I’ve been wanting to try Debi’s recipe! We love banana bread here…and add bourbon…well let’s just say that sounds absolutely amazing to me!
It was truly a delicious recipe! I had a hard time choosing.
I need to make this!! What a fun twist on banana bread!!! I love all the texture in this!
It definitely has some crunch!
This is one of my favorite recipes. I love making this for mother’s day or Thanksgiving. I’m so happy you picked it! Great work!
Thank you! I had a hard time picking; they’re all delicious recipes. We brought the rest of it with us. I couldn’t part with it.
This looks yummy!!! I love banana bread. I made a version with rum once, I love the bourbon idea better!!
Thank you! Me, too! If it has bourbon in it, I have to try it.