Best Banana Bread on BI or Oahu
 

Anyone have any recommendations for where to buy the best banana bread with macademia nuts??? Thanks!

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Why wait for Hawaii? For best results, use very ripe bananas:

• 2 cups mashed banana
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup corn oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• Nuts of your choice


Combine banana, eggs, oil and vanilla; mix well. Sift together flour, sugar, baking soda and salt; add to banana mixture. Stir in nuts. Pour batter into two foil-lined and greased 9-by-5-by-3-inch loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees about 45 minutes or until done.

Here is bonniebroad's recipe. It is great!

Author: bonniebroad
Date: 10/02/2005, 08:14 pm

Guys, will go ahead and copy the recipe to this thread for everybody's convenience:

HAWAIIAN BANANA BREAD:

3 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 and 1/4 cups chopped pecans or walnuts (optional)
3 eggs, beaten
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups mashed ripe bananas
1 (8-ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine first 5 ingredients; stir in nuts. Combine remaining ingredients; add to flour mixture, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened.

Spoon batter into 2 greased and floured 8-1/2 by 4-1/2 by 3-inch loaf pans. Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans, and let cool on wire racks.

Thanks for the recipes. They both sound great. But I'm actually looking to buy some in Hawaii so that we can eat it for breakfast or as a snack in the car, so if anyone has any recommendations, please let me know!

My DW whose banana bread is acclaimed far and wide says that the vanilla is the mystery ingredient . :-B

Ed - is your DW going to bring us some in Hawaii??

Anyone have any recommendations??

Kapuakea Bakery on Oahu is good for banana bread, taro bread, guava squares, all kinds of stuff. But I don't think they put nuts in their bread. If Liliha Bakery is open when you arrive, you should buy stuff there as well.

North shore Grinds in the 1400 block of 10th Ave- in Kaimuki, not on the North Shore!- has great Banana bread. For that matter, so does Foodland or Food Pantry in Waikiki. Not sure if either of them have mac nuts.

The Kahala hotel was supposedly known for their banana bread, but that was some years ago, and I haven't been there since the hotel has changed hands. I don't recall it having any mac nuts either.

Hmmm, now that I think about it, few commercial bakeries would have nuts in their mass produced breads due to the people with allergies.