It must be a hold over to growing up but I love making bread for teachers for christmas. Usually I do pumpkin. I did make a chocolate muffin this fall and am thinking of turning that it to a loaf. I happen today to have a lot of leftover chopped up apples so was thinking of make an apple bread. I found this and thought I'd try Apple-cranberry bread
I also have a lot of bananas and thought I'd do Bridget's chocolate chip banana bread. My question - The apple recipe talks about making the batter and freezing until ready to bake. That would be great! Would it also work for the banana bread? Can I freeze in the aluminum loaf pans I got?
I've never seen a quick bread recipe that says it can be frozen before baking, but how awesome is that?! I'd test the banana bread and the aluminum pans by making the batch of banana bread batter, freeze one in aluminum unbaked, bake the rest.
ReplyDeleteAfter about 24 hours, follow the instructions for thawing and baking the last banana bread loaf.
Freeze the already-baked loaves and thaw before wrapping (or give early gifts).
Post your results, please!
I just found this "Freezing Unbaked Quick Breads: Use only recipes which call for double-action baking powder. Wrap and freeze batters in pans ready for baking; when ready to use, thaw and bake immediately. Frozen, unbaked baking powder biscuits need be only partially thawed before baking." it was on http://tipnut.com/freezing-quick-tips/
ReplyDeleteVery interesting:) I made tons of bana bread last weekend. I was cleaning out the freezer to make room for Christmas cookies and came upon 12 bananas? The secretarys were thrilled and surprised to get a goodie on a cold December morning:)
ReplyDeleteWe had the apple cranberry bread for dinner last night it was wonderful.
ReplyDeleteBridget's banana bread makes wonderful muffins. I made them as mini muffins and baked for 12 -15 min, perfect. I defrosted the breads and they are baking they smell wonderful and are raising so I think all is good, will let you know the finial results.
ReplyDelete