The Best Banana Bread Recipe {Cook's Illustrated}

A month or so ago, my husband tried out the banana bread recipe from a recent issue of Cook's Illustrated.

The editor's of CI were trying to figure out a way to get the most banana flavor packed into the bread recipe while still maintaining a nice texture. Many times when a banana bread recipe has a lot of bananas in it it become soggy. That is not the case with this recipe and um...the Cook's Illustrated recipe has six bananas! Six!

I won't give the recipe, because I think you all should buy Cook's Illustrated but I will tell you the secret. You precook some of the bananas in the microwave, push them through a sieve and then reduce the banana juice into a syrup that you then incorporate into the batter. Don't worry you still use the flesh of the bananas.

Seriously, this is the best recipe.