Banana Earl Grey Tea Bread
Growing up, I used to looooove earl grey bread.
Walking into bakeries in Japan is like going into a whole new world (I watched Disney sing along last night. Hence why…..oops lol). As soon as you step in, you smell the buttery, sweet, salty deliciousness. Also, the presentation is always on point!
Being a bougie kid that I was, I loved the kind of food that goes well with some good old wine like the kind of food adults like (it was so bad though, I could not eat food kids usually love. I could also tell the difference between expensive ingredients and cheap ingredients. If my mom were to use cheap ingredients, I just would not eat that food. Wow like who did I think I was???lol). Anyways, whenever my mom and I went to a bakery together, I would always ask her to get an earl grey bread loaf. It was my absolute fav❤️
A few days ago, when I was brainstorming some cooking ideas, something came to my mind: “earl grey tea bread.” I went to the kitchen, and I saw some ripe bananas on the counter and thought, “hmmm, they will go well together.” So, there you go. It’s not too sweet, and earl grey just makes it 1000 times better. It’s such a classy little bread loaf, everyone would love it! I also added some chia seeds for a fun texture😋
Enjoy❣️
All my love,
Kaori
Banana Earl Grey Tea Bread
Ingredients
Little funsies
- 1/2 ripe banana (we'll use total of 3 bananas for this recipe)
- 1 bag earl grey tea bag
- 2 tbsp chia seeds
Dry ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- a pinch salt
Wet ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter (room temperature, coconut oil as an alternative)
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs (1/2 cup of apple sauce as an alternative)
- 2½ ripe bananas (mashed)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F and coat the loaf pan with nonstick oil spray. Set aside. (I used coconut oil spray)
- Combine the dry ingredients in a medium bowl.
- In a large bowl, combine butter and brown sugar. Mix until creamy.
- Add eggs, mashed bananas and vanilla extract (the rest of the wet ingredients). Mix until completely incorporated.
- Combine chia seeds and tea leaves (open the tea bag and mix in the leaves) into wet ingredient mixture.
- Gradually add dry ingredient mixture into wet ingredients and mix until there are no flour sockets.
- Spoon the batter into the loaf pan and top with banana slices (1/2 banana). Bake for about 50 minutes.
- Once baked, make sure to stick a toothpick in the middle and see if it comes out clean.