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Banana Macadamia Nut Bread Recipe

Yields1 Serving

This is a wonderfully sweet bread with a great banana flavor and the added note of Macadamia nuts and a topping of sliced almonds.  It can be made from start to finish in the bread machine and is great as a breakfast treat, a dessert and with coffee or tea. 

INGREDIENTS:
 2/3 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
 ¾ cup of very ripe bananas
 2 tablespoons of softened butter
 1 egg
 3 tablespoons of white sugar
 1 ¼ teaspoons of salt
 1/2 cup macadamia nuts ground into a flour in a food processor (Note: don’t over process or you will end up with a Macadamia butter. Pulse slowly until you have a flour-like consistency).
 3 ¼ cups of bread flour or all-purpose flour
 2 ¾ teaspoons of bread machine or active dry yeast
Glaze:
 1 egg yolk and 1 teaspoon of water whisked together
 ¼ cup of slice almonds
DIRECTIONS:
1

Place all of the ingredients into the bread pan in the order indicated in the ingredients section. Select the basic white bread setting.

2

After the rising cycle, brush the top with the egg yolk/water mixture and top with sliced almonds before the baking cycle begins.

3

When done, let the loaf rest in the pan for 10-minutes and then remove from the pan and let rest on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Slice and serve.