Best Banana Nut Mandarin Orange Bread Recipes

BANANA ORANGE BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, oil, and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add mashed bananas and mix well.
• Add salt, vanilla, orange juice and zest and mix until well combined.
• Add eggs, one at a time, mixing after each addition.
• Mix in baking soda and baking powder.
• Mix on low, gradually adding flour until combined.
• Divide batter evenly between two 8.5"x4.5" loaf pans. Bake 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Allow to cool 15 minutes before removing from pans. Let cool completely before glazing.
• Whisk together powdered sugar and orange juice until it reaches a glue like consistency. Add more juice if too thick, or more sugar if too runny. Drizzle over cooled loaves. Add orange zest to tops, if desired.

MANDARIN ORANGE AND ALMOND NUT BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Heat oven to 375^. Grease well bottoms and corners(not sides) of 2 loaf pans(5x8-inch). Set aside.
• 2. Using an electric mixer; cream shortening and sugars. Add eggs, one at a time -beating well after each addition. Add oranges and juice, and mashed banana, mix well.(reserve 6 orange slices for garnish).
• 3. Add 1 cup of the flour and mix to blend- batter will look curdled , that's OK. In the remaining flour add the baking powder and baking soda, stir to blend..add to batter, mix to blend well. Mix in the almond extract, blend well. Remove bowl from mixer and fold in the nuts until combined.
• 4. Pour batter evenly into the prepared pans. Bake in 375^ oven for 25 minutes.. carefully turn pans around then turn oven to 350^ and bake for 30 minutes more or until tested done with a wooden toothpick.
• 5. Let cool in pans for 7 minutes on cooling rack then remove from pan by running a table knife around edges and turn over in your oven mitt hand and tap bottom of loaf out and place on wire rack to cool completely. --- Make a drizzle with powdered sugar and orange juice or make thicker icing and frost and decorate top with reserved orange slices.

BANANA/ORANGE BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Mix all the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
• Add all wet ingredients in a blender and mix for 15 seconds.
• Add the blended ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well.
• Pour mixture into a well-greased bread pan and place on middle rack in preheated oven.
• Bake for approximately 45 minutes.
• Insert toothpick to test for doneness (it should come out clean).
• Cover the loaf with foil if it is starting to brown too quickly on top.
• Let cool for 30 minutes and then enjoy.

MANDARIN ORANGE BREAD

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350F (180C). Grease and flour a 9 x 5 inch (22 x 14 cm) loaf pan.
• In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt, set aside.
• In the bowl of the mixer beat the eggs, yolk and sugar until light and fluffy about 3-4 minutes (on low speed or #2). Add the butter and beat to combine, then add the yogurt, oil, milk, vanilla and zest, beat to combine. Add the flour mixture and beat until smooth.
• Pour into the prepared loaf pan and bake for approximately 50-60 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean. Let cool completely before drizzling with the mandarin orange glaze or dusting with powdered sugar.

THE BEST BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly butter one 9-by-5-inch loaf pan.
• Whisk together the flour, pecans, granulated sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon salt and nutmeg in a large bowl. Whisk together the eggs, melted butter, buttermilk, brown sugar and vanilla in a medium bowl; stir in the mashed bananas. Fold the banana mixture into the flour mixture until just combined (it's OK if there are some lumps).
• Pour the batter into the buttered pan and lightly tap the pan on the counter to evenly distribute the batter. Bake until browned and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out completely clean, about 1 hour. Let the bread cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto a rack to cool completely.

BANANA ORANGE NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Lightly grease and flour one 9x5x3" loaf pan.
• Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Stir in chopped nuts, and dried cranberries. Set aside.
• Cream shortening, add sugar, beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Add mashed banana and orange juice.
• Slowly beat the set aside dry ingredients into creamed mixture. Mix well.
• Pour into prepared loaf pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 70-75 minutes.
• Cool 25-30 minutes before removing from pan.

ORANGE BANANA NUT BREAD

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, combine the sugar, oil and eggs; mix well.
• Stir in bananas and orange juice.
• Combine the dry ingredients; add to banana mixture, beating just until moistened.
• Stir in walnuts.
• Pour into two greased 8-in. x 4-in. x 2-in. loaf pans.
• Bake at 325° for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
• Cool for 10 minutes; remove from pans to a wire rack to cool completely.

MOIST CRANBERRY ORANGE BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a large loaf pan.
• Combine flour, 1 3/4 cup sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda in a large bowl. Add melted butter; stir until mixture is crumbly. Reserve about 1/4 cup cranberries and 1/4 cup mandarin oranges; stir remaining fruit into flour mixture.
• Beat eggs, milk, sour cream, vanilla extract, and orange extract in another bowl until smooth. Gradually stir egg mixture into flour mixture until batter is thoroughly incorporated. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan. Scatter reserved cranberries and mandarin oranges atop batter and sprinkle with remaining 1 tablespoon sugar.
• Bake in preheated oven for 5 minutes; reduce heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and continue baking until center of bread springs back when touched, 35 to 40 minutes.

MANDARIN ORANGE BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl combine the eggs and sugar.
• Beat until light and fluffy,about 2 minutes.
• In a small bowl sift together the flour, salt,and baking soda.
• Add the flour mixture to the egg mixture and stir until smooth.
• Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
• Spoon into greased and floured 9 x 5-inch loaf pans.
• Bake at 325-degrees for 1 hour.
• Remove from pans immediately.
• Let stand for 24 hours before slicing.
• Makes 2 loaves.