Ingredients
- HONEY BREAD
- 3/4 c Strong Tea, hot
- 3/4 c Packed Brown Sugar
- 1/3 c Honey
- 2 c Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
- 1-1/2 ts Baking Soda
- BANANA FILLING
- 6 Bananas, ripe
- 1 ts Lemon Juice
- Chocolate Sprinkles
Directions
Honey Bread: Butter and flour a 8 1/2x4 1/2x2 1/2" loaf pan. Preheat oven to 350* F. Divide tea between 2 small bowls. Stir brown sugar into one until dissolved. Stir honey into the other until blended. Set both aside. In a medium bowl, combine flour and baking soda. Mix well. Stir in sugar mixture until blended. Quickly stir in honey mixture. Pour into pan. Bake at 350* F for 40-45 minutes until skewer inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan set on rack 10 minutes. Remove from pan. Cool on rack. Filling: In a medium bowl, mash banana with lemon juice.
To Assemble: Trim off ends of bread. Cut remaining loaf into slices 1/2" thick. Cut each slice into a floral shap with a 1 3/4" to 2" cookie cutter. With a sharp paring knife or very small round cookie cutter, cut a 1/2" round hole in the center of half the flowers, forming "doughnut" shapes. Spread solid bread flowers with filling. Top with "doughnut" slices. Fill hole with chocolate sprinkles. Serve at once.
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Submitted 6/13/05.
Source: Internet/Victoria Magazine, June 1994
Submitted By: Marlen
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