This is a good Desert Bread to serve after a nice dinner of Roast Bison Backstrap.
Doug
Whiskey and Bacon Banana Bread
1 serving butter-flavored cooking spray (such as Pam®)
3 very ripe bananas
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon banana extract
1 ½ fluid ounces whiskey and honey liqueur (such as Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey®)
1 cup butter
2 cups white sugar
4 large eggs
3 tablespoons bacon drippings
5 slices cooked bacon
2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon baking powder
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Spray 5 mini loaf pans with cooking spray.
Place bananas, vanilla extract, banana extract, and whiskey-honey liqueur into the work bowl of a stand mixer and mix well. Transfer banana mixture to a bowl. Beat butter, sugar, eggs, and bacon drippings in a clean bowl using stand mixer until butter mixture is fluffy, about 3 minutes. Stir banana mixture into butter mixture.
Place bacon slices into a food processor and pulse until finely chopped. Mix bacon into moist ingredients. Combine flour, baking soda, salt, and baking powder on a large paper plate and use paper plate as a funnel to add flour mixture to moist ingredients in mixer bowl; beat until batter is thoroughly combined. Pour batter into prepared mini loaf pans.
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the middle of a loaf comes out clean or with moist crumbs, about 45 minutes. Serve with a scoop of Vanilla Ice Cream on the side.
