Banana Bread
Posted by stride4unity on Sep 09, 2007 · Member since Feb 2005 · 211 posts
My grocery store had bananas on sale for 19 cents a pound so I had to buy some! The only thing is that they are pretty ripened, hence their being on sale. Now, I am going to bake banana bread with these babies but the only thing is I cant eat a whole loaf myself before the loaf goes bad. Would it be okay to freeze the bread after baking or will this affect the taste and texture? If it is okay to freeze the loaf, what is the best way to wrap it?
Absolutely, freeze it. I don't know what others' take on this might be, but I cut the bread, wrap the individual slices and put them in a baggie so I can pull out exactly what I can eat at any given time. If you bake two loaves and only want to eat one (assuming you could eat the whole loaf before it goes bad), you can either do the second one as I suggest above, or you can wrap the whole loaf to freeze and pull it out when you're ready to eat another whole loaf (within a few days, of course, not all at once ;) ).
My mom used to do this all the time...buy a lot of bananas that were cut-price because they were getting too ripe to sell, and make gazunda batches of breads. Then, as baypuppy says, make muffins or mini-breads (she had small tins for gift loaves) or, if like her she had 5 to 7 people in the house at any given time, regular loaves.
She would just wrap each loaf in foil and pop them in plastic bags to freeze.
I make banana bread muffins and freeze them in gallon size baggies then pull them out as needed, defrost them, and devour. They taste just as good as fresh and the texture is the same, too. An awesome, cheap alternative to packaged muffins or snacks for on the go.