Categories: bananas, cake, coffee, dessert, tea

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups melted butter
• 1 1/2 cups brown sugar OR honey
• 4 eggs, room temp
• 1 T vanilla extract
• zest of 1 orange
• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 2 cups white flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 t baking soda
• 1 T baking powder
• 1 t nutmeg
• 2 t ground cinnamon

Directions

1. Beat first 5 ingredients together in large bowl, beginning with butter and sugar; add eggs one at a time. Add remaining ingredients, beat til light in color.

2. Sift dry ingredients together twice.

3. 2 cups well-mashed ripe bananas soaked in 1 cup strong coffee

4. Add flour mixture and bananas alternatively to butter mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Mix gently but do not overbeat. Add up to 1 cup each raisins, walnuts.

5. Bake in generously buttered loaf pans sprinkled with sesame or poppy seeds. Bake 350 F 40 – 50 minutes.

6. Cool 10 minutes in pan the remove to finish cooling.

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