Best Tropical Nut Bread Recipes

TROPICAL KAHLUA NUT BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 375^. Grease well bottoms and corners (not sides) of 2 loaf pans (5x8-inches). Set aside.
• 2. Using an electric mixer, cream shortening and sugars. Add eggs, one at a time beating well after each addition.
• 3. Add pineapple and juice, and mashed banana, mix well.
• 4. Next, add the Kahlua and cream; mix well to combine.
• 5. Add 1 cup of the flour and mix to blend. In the second cup of flour add the baking powder and baking soda, stir to blend slightly. Add to batter; mix to blend well.
• 6. Mix in the vanilla and coconut extracts; blend.
• 7. Remove bowl from mixer and fold in the coconut and the nuts until combined.
• 8. Pour evenly into the prepared pans.
• 9. Bake in 375^ oven for 25 minutes. Turn pans around.
• 10. Then turn oven to 350^ and bake for 20 more minutes or until tested done with a wooden toothpick. Let cool in pan for 5 minutes.
• 11. Then remove by running a table knife around edges and turn oven in your oven mitt hand and tap bottom of loaf out and place on wire rack to cool.
• 12. If desired, make a drizzle of orange juice and powdered sugar for the top and decorate with maraschino cherry halves.

TROPICAL NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Grease a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan.
• Sift flour with baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• Combine pineapple, including liquid, bananas and orange juice.
• In large bowl of electric mixer, cream butter and sugar; add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour alternately with pineapple mixture, mixing only enough to moisten flour. Stir in nuts.
• Pour into prepared pan; bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until done.

TROPICAL SWIRLIN' SPICE BANANA NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Place dough ingredients in the bread pan in the order suggested by bread machine instructions.
• Set for white bread, dough stage.
• Press start.
• When the dough is ready, turn it out onto a lightly floured board and punch down.
• Let rest a few minutes.
• Roll the dough into a rectangle 9 inches wide.
• Spread the softened butter over the dough.
• In a small bowl, combine brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, nuts,and coconut.
• Sprinkle mixture evenly over dough.
• Roll up the dough, jellyroll fashion, starting with a short (9-inch) side, forming a loaf; pinch the edge to seal.
• Spray a 9x5-inch loaf pan with non-stick spray.
• Place the shaped loaf in the pan, seam side down.
• Cover and let rise in a warm place until double in size, about 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Bake for 30-40 minutes or until done.
• Remove bread from pan and cool on cake rack for 1 hour before slicing.