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Smoked Banana Bread with Pinot Noir Salt, Vanilla bean, and Milk Chocolate Chips

  • Author: Kelly Cahoon

Description

Not your moms banana bread. Unless, of course, you’re one of my kids.


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Ingredients

  • 1 ¼ C + 1T Flour 
  • 1t Pinot Noir Salt from jacobsen salt co
  • 1t Baking soda
  • ½ C + 1T Butter flavored Crisco
  • 1t Vanilla Bean Paste 
  • 1C Sugar
  • 2 Eggs
  • 4 very ripe Bananas, mashed

Instructions

  1. Preheat Grill to 350F.
  2. Grease and flour the loaf pan with the 1T of crisco and 1T flour. 
  3. Stir the remaining flour, salt, and baking soda in a medium bowl. Set aside. 
  4. In a stand mixer beat the sugar and crisco, add the eggs and vanilla and stir until light and fluffy. 
  5. Add the bananas and mix until just combined. 
  6. Pour into the prepared pan, sprinkle with more chips and salt, and place in the center of the grate. (Use the center rack if you have a Timberline model) 
  7. Bake for 60 minutes until dark golden brown. Use a toothpick to poke the center of the loaf, it should be mostly clean except for a few moist crumbs. 
  8. Let cool completely before removing from the pan.