Hop Butterscotch Bread

Amazingly, it's August already. The super hot, often forgotten month during summer. Ever notice people love July and June, but when August comes around, it's like blah? There's no holidays or celebration, it's just HOT. It's like when you preheat your oven to anything above 400*... you just feel the seeping heat coming into the house :) From the talk around here, the warm weather lasts nicely until early October, so I'm pretty happy about an extended season. It's enables a little bit more good times to roll in.

I've been a little absent on the blogsphere lately, and only been able to post about once a week. This is kind of our busy season, so I'm trying my best to keep up. As always, thanks for coming by, and thanks to my friends for helping me eat all this stuff. I'm currently in weight gaining mode so I can compete again next year, so I'm opening up my diet a little bit. However, I can't eat whole cakes by myself... well, I shouldn't :) Good thing my mother taught me how to share.

This is a quick breakfast bread I through together. I tried doing the marbling thing, but I learned something about myself today. I'm just not a good marbler. Nope. I never played with marbles, I didn't like this game on Nintendo, I try to avoid marbled fatty meat, and I can't seem to get my swirls down. I tend to either over do it, which turns it into a homogeneous color blob, or not enough... which kinda results in the same thing :)

How do you marble? Is there any tips for something so easy? Should I go sit back in preschool and learn?


Butterscotch Marbled Banana Bread
Dr. Adam

-1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
-1/2 cup sugar
-1 tsp baking soda
-1/2 tsp salt
-1/2 tsp nutmeg
-2 blackened, ripe, be careful picking them up or they'll leak bananas, mashed-ed -1 1/2 tsp vanilla
-1 egg
-1 Tbs oil (grapeseed or whatever you have)
-1/2 cup milk
-3/4 cup butterscotch chips, melted

Preheat your oven to 350*. Set up the center rack, and grease a standard loaf pan.

In a large bowl, mix the flour, sugar, baking soda, nutmeg, and salt together.

In a medium bowl, mix the bananas, vanilla, egg, oil, and milk, until it is an evenly mixed, sweet, mushy, wet mess. Add the wet banana ingredients to the dry bowl, and stir until combined together. I try not to overmix this step, we just fold over and over here.

Pour into the greased loaf pan, and then top with the melted butterscotch chips, in dallops around the pan. Using your best swirling skills, use a knife and make a few passes, marblizing the batter. Good luck :) Bake for ~40-50 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool completely on a wire rack.



For those of you who were my buddies way back when (thanks for sticking around :) ) you'll remember this post. It's real close, because this is my go-to recipe. It does no wrong. It saves puppies from burning buildings. It cures sweetness and hunger :) I also found a Vanilla Sugar post when I searched for a banana bread with butterscotch. It's from Dawn, a good friend of mine, who is currently in vacation mode. Her desserts are always awesome, and to know that we can think the same, well makes me awesome too :)

I have to head to work today for a few hours. Saturday work is kinda fun actually. It's lax and everyone is in high spirits and well rested when they come in. Enjoy your weekend, and stay out of the August heat :)