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Fruit Compote Bread

Ingredients

  • 3-4 over ripe bananas
  • 1 apple peeled and cored
  • 1-2 cups other fruit cherries, blueberries, stone fruit, strawberries, you name it
  • 5 tbsp butter
  • 1-2 ounces Jack Daniels or other dark liquor like rum or scotch
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • ½ cup brown sugar Splenda or 1 cup brown sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  • ½ cup butter milk
  • 2 tbsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup white all-purpose flour
  • 2 cups whole wheat all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • ½ cup white baking Splenda or 1 cup white sugar
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 ½ tsp baking soda
  • 1 handful of chopped nuts of your choice
  • 1 handful coconut
  • 1 handful favorite dry fruit raisins, craisins, apricots
  • 1 handful of chocolate chips if you want

Instructions

  1. Pre heat the oven to 325 degrees. Melt the butter in a large frying pan on the stove top over medium high heat, when melted add the apple and any other firm fruits let it simmer for about 3-5 minutes until slightly softened.
  2. Next add the mashed bananas along with the brown sugar Splenda and the cinnamon.
  3. Then add in the Jack Daniels, at this point if you have an audience in the kitchen and are so inclined you can flame the liquor or just let the liquor burn off in a less dramatic way, stirring occasional.
  4. Reduce the heat to medium low and let the mixture simmer until it smells like heaven and has darkened just a little. Remove the fruit compote from the heat and let it cool while you make the batter.
  5. In one bowl mix the dry ingredients: flour, salt, baking soda and white sugar. In another larger bowl mix the liquids: butter milk, vanilla, eggs, and oil when blended add the fruit compote. If the compote is still really hot you will want to temper the egg mixture before you plop in all that hot fruit. Then start mixing in the dry ingredients. Your batter will be lumpy from the fruit.
  6. Next add in the handfuls of nuts, dry fruit, coconut and chocolate chips, stir gently. In all honesty the chocolate chips are almost over kill, but this family has a chocolate addiction so I have to add them.
  7. Pour the batter into two regular loaf pans that you have sprayed with non-stick spray. Put them in the oven for about an hour to hour and half. You will know the bread is finished when a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
  8. Cool the bread in the loaf pan for about fifteen minutes then turn out on a wire rack to let it finish cooling. If any of the bread survives the after school snack attack I love it toasted in with a smear of cream cheese for breakfast.