Bourbon Banana Bread

By lbgtdep

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 75 minutes
Total Time: 85 minutes
Yield: 1 loaf of banana bread

Ingredients

• INGREDIENTS
• 1/4 cup of bourbon or dark rum
• 1 1/4 cups of unbleached all purpose flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup of unsalted butter, melted
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 3 medium sized, ripe bananas, mashed
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• Glaze
• 1 Tablespoon of bourbon
• 1/2 cup of powdered sugar

Preparation

Step 1

Heat the bourbon in a small saucepan for about two minutes.
Remove from the heat and set aside. Butter and flour a 9x5 inch loaf pan or line it with parchment paper.
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium sized bowl.
In the bowl of your stand mixer (or a large bowl) mix together the melted butter and sugar. Beat well until blended. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Then add in the mashed bananas and vanilla extract.

Add the flour mixture in thirds to the wet mixture. Stirring gently after each bit. DO NOT OVER MIX.
Pour the mixture into the prepared loaf pan and bake on a middle rack in the oven for about one hour. Bake for less time if you are baking on convection.
Check its doneness with a toothpick. It should come out fairly clean, but it is ok if it looks a little sticky. This is a very dense and moist bread!
Place the loaf pan on a cooling rack.
Whisk together the bourbon and powdered sugar until thick and smooth. Once the bread is cooled and removed from the pan, drizzle the glaze over the top of the bread. The bread tastes even better the second day!