Ultimate Banana Bread

This recipe is fussy but delicious. It was moist and full of banana flavor. You place the bananas in the microwave to soften the bananas and release their juices, which you reduce then add to the batter. I was short 1 banana so I did not top the bread with sliced bananas but we didn't miss it.

Fussy recipe is right, and an interesting process, but I'm not sure that the outcome was worth the extra effort. The idea is to increase banana flavor by extracting and then reducing the juice, rather than just add more banana (and risk a gummy texture). The bread baked up beautifully, might be the prettiest banana bread I've ever made. I didn't have walnuts, and replaced with pecans. Next time I will make sure to have walnuts - their bitter note is better with the bananas than pecans.