Banana Nut....Yeast Bread?

Yesterday I felt like experimenting. My mom always makes Banana Bread. But it never as any yeast in it. It seems almost like banana cake, rather than bread. Actually, it's quite good with cream cheese frosting...
After looking online, and finding no banana bread made with yeast, I new I had to try it. So I did. It was weird...It actually wasn't that bad. I kept cutting myself more pieces with dinner, so I must ave liked it a little. My family said they liked it, and that was before I told tem I made up the recipe, so that was pretty good. I tink it could have been a bit sweeter. If I ever had the desire to make it again I'd alter the recipe a little.

Onto the pictures!



Does the inside seem a little uncooked to anyone? It may have tasted a tad doughy.

Haven't cut into the loaf yet...I'm curious to see how that one came out!

You know that bread I was making? Turned out amazing. That was the best raisin bread I have ever had in my entire life. The recipe makes two loaves, both of which were gone before the end of the night! I need to start doubling recipes! I made it with the optional cinnamon sugar swirl and sugar crunch top. My sisted thought it needed a glaze, so I pulled out the powdered sugar and milk!

Here's the dough divided -

Ready for baking:

Adventures in Bread Baking.

Well, today I made my first loaf of bread! It was very strange, I wasn't expecting it to bake well once I saw that it had barely even doubled while proofing, but it did! It came out crispy on the outside, chewy and bread-like on the inside. Very yummy! My brother and sister said they wouldn't have guessed it was homemade if I hadn't told them. Unfortunately, my mom turned some store bought bread into garlic cheese bread, so my bread was kind of pale in comparison and everyone had mostly the garlic bread. Oh well, I thought it tasted great!

I didn't exactly have a recipe for it, I was just fooling with some techniques I had read about on www.Thefreshloaf.com
Here are some pictures:















Toasted, with butter: