Chocolate Almond Banana bread

The original recipe from Odense has lots of sugar, fat, and animal content. This is my vegan version. I used whole wheat pastry flour instead of all-purpose flour:

Ingredients:

• 1-7 oz box Odense Chocolate Almond Paste, grated
• 2  ripe bananas
• ½ cup applesauce
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 1 2/3 cups whole wheat pastry flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp. baking powder
• 1 cup unsweetened cocoa

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350ᵒF. Lightly spray all sizes of a loaf pan (9"x 5")
2. Mix all dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, baking powder, and cocoa) in a bowl. Add the grated chocolate almond paste.
3. Mix bananas, applesauce and vanilla in a food processor.
4. Slowly mix all dry and wet ingredients until well incorporated.
5. Bake it around 60-75 minutes or until a toothpick comes clear. 
6. Cool pan on wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove from pan and finish cooling on wire rack.
7. Keep it in the refrigerator for one week or freeze (double wrapped) for 3 months.

Yields: 1 loaf

Chocolate Almond Banana bread

Chocolate Almond Banana bread

 Enjoy!

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Banana nut bread

This bread is ideal for your afternoon tea or coffee. I replace the original recipe with rolled oat to make it nutritious.

This is my high-fiber version:

Ingredients:

• ½ cup rolled oats
• 1 ½ cup whole wheat flour
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 2 mashed bananas
• 1/2 cup applesauce  
• 2 tbsp vegan butter (at room temperature)
• 1/3 cup orange juice
• 1 tbsp orange rind
• 1 cup walnuts, chopped

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°F. Using the food processor, run the oats until look finely grounded like flour. In a large bowl, mix flours and baking powder.

In a small bowl, mash bananas, add soy butter, orange juice, orange rind and walnuts.  Add the mixture to the dry ingredients and mix until smooth.

Pour into greased loaf pan. Depending on your oven, bake it for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick comes clear.

Cool in rack. Remove from pan after 10 minutes.

Banana nut bread

Banana nut bread

Enjoy! 

 

Apple bread

This is another bread is for your afternoon tea or coffee. I replace the original recipe with rolled oat to make it nutritious.

Ingredients:
 
•    1 cup almonds or cashews
•    2 cups whole wheat flour
•    1 tbsp baking powder
•    1 apple cut in four pieces and sliced
•    1/2 cup applesauce
•    1 tsp vanilla extract
•    1 large banana
•    1 cup non-dairy milk
•    ½ cup black currants

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°F. Process the almonds (or cashews) in the food processor until becomes a butter. In a large bowl, mix flour and baking powder.

In a medium bowl, mix applesauce with banana. Add vanilla extract, almond (or cashew) butter, and black currants. Add the mixture to the dry ingredients and mix until smooth.

Pour into greased loaf pan. Depending on your oven, bake it for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick comes clear.

Cool in rack. Remove from pan after 10 minutes.

Enjoy! 

Apple bread

Apple bread

Apple bread

Pan de Cremona (Cremona bread)

I usually don't cook bread using white flour but once in a while, I need a treat. There are some breads won't taste the same with whole wheat flour.

I am not sure about the origin of this bread. Cremona is an Italian city. So probably it is a typical bread from that city made in Argentina by Italian descents.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 lb all purpose flour 
• 1/2 TB yeast 
• 1/2 cup warm water 
• pinch of sugar
• approx. 1/4 lb. vegetable shortening
  

Directions:

Heat the oven. In the meantime, let the yeast rise in warm water.

In a medium container, put the flour making a well in the center. Add the yeast, sugar and shortening.

Mix the ingredients in the center and little by little add the flour together until the dough is smooth.

Make a ball and let it rise until it doubles the volume. Make a rectangular shape, brush it with a bit of butter or shortening and fold it in the middle by the long side. Join the ends with a round shape. Cut the outside in sections. 

Bake it in hot oven until is golden and crunchy.

Enjoy! 

Pan de Cremona

Pan de Cremona

Cheese and chives bread

The original version of this bread from Recipes for a Small Planet book calls for eggs and milk. That was the time when I was a vegetarian. Since my diet has changed over the years, I modified it to make it vegan. Also, since the recipe is for a bread and has yeast, there is no need for an egg.

It has a mild onion and cheese flavor that's a mouth watering.

Ingredients:  

• 1/2 TB yeast
• 1/2 cup warm non-dairy milk
• 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1/2 cup non-dairy cheddar cheese
• 1/2 cup chopped chives

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350F. Dissolve the yeast in the milk and let it rise. In a medium bowl, add the rest of the ingredients in the order given. Add the yeast.

Knead the dough until smooth and elastic (adding more flour or liquid if necessary). Place it in a mini loaf and let it rise. Bake it for 30-35 minutes.

Enjoy!

Cheese and chives bread

Cheese and chives bread

Cheese and chives bread