For this month’s Secret Recipe Club, I had the pleasure of being assigned Ros’ blog, The More Than Occasional Baker. Now, this is my kind of blog! I have a major sweet tooth and prefer baking over cooking. Unfortunately, this made it extremely difficult to choose which recipe I wanted to make since everything looked good to me.
I was choosing between Pineapple Tarts, Earl Grey Tea Cookies, Bananas Foster Crepe Cake, Ginger & Chocolate Oat Cookies, Pistachio, Yogurt, and Elderflower Cake, No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites, Homemade Vanilla Marshmallows, Madelines, White Chocolate & Macadamia Cookies, and Earl Grey Tea Banana Bread.
In the end, I went with whatever recipe I had the most ingredients for. I didn’t have any more Earl Grey tea on hand since we used it all up making Lavender Earl Grey Truffles for Christmas a while ago, but thankfully my friend Stephanie had just gifted me with a whole box of Thai Black Tea that I swapped in.
To continue the Thai-tea theme, I drizzled some thinned out condensed milk on top. The cake was quite dense, which I think was a result of the containers I baked them in (I had this issue with some zucchini bread I baked in these containers) as well as the fact that I just mashed the bananas instead of mushing them to a pulp and substituted yogurt for the sour cream. I also used some of the wet tea leaves to use in the bread itself since I liked the color and texture contrast.
Check out the other Secret Recipe Clubbers below, or head on over to The More Than Occasional Baker to see what she’s whipped up recently!
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I love to use black tea, or any kind of tea, actually – in recipes, both savory and sweet, so this one is calling my name…
Great choice!
I don’t think I have ever baked with tea. Must remedy that!
Yum, beautiful looking bread! I have only added green tea powder to bread, haven’t thought of trying other teas.
I’m so glad you picked this recipe and I love how you’ve used thai tea and some condensed milk – I will have to try that myself one day! Happy SRC reveal day.
For as much of a tea drinker that I am, I’ve never baked with it. This sounds like the perfect version of banana bread for me! Great pick this month 🙂
what a great choice for this month! great src pick. I love a new twist on an old favorite recipe.
What a lovely and unique pick! Happy Reveal Day!!
I love tea, so this bread sounds totally up my alley!
Your cakes look gorgeous!
Must admit that I am definitely more of a cook than a baker, but I do like to rattle the baking tins on rare occasions. This is exactly this kind of thing I would make on one such occasion. Love the idea of the banana bread flavoured with tea, and your drizzle of condensed milk over the top – great choice.
It’s always great to have a new recipe to use up bananas! Your banana bread sounds terrific.