Baking with dried fruit

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I made mini banana bread bakes with dried fruit.  Would you ever have thought dried fruit could get plump and juicy?  Well it does!

No recipes to share here because I was just throwing thing into the glass bowl all willy-nilly, but I made two of them.  The first had dried blueberries and the second had goji berries.

I “rehydrated” them (is that what it’s called?) by soaking them in warm water for a while first.  Then I added the rest of the ingredients to the plump berry water and mixed until it had a consistency that seemed good.  Flavor-wise I wasn’t too concerned.  How hard is it to mess up bananas, berries, sugar and oat flour.  Worst case scenario I’d just dump Earth Balance and/or maple syrup all over it and call it a day.  Which I did anyway.

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It reminded me of a banana berry muffin.  A glorious one.  Sans gluten. 

I promise from now on I’ll write down recipes.

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Ummm…oops!

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Ok from NOW on. 

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Comments (4)

  1. Alexis @ Hummusapien

    Wahhh I want the recipe! I haven’t eaten breakfast yet and that last pic looks to die for. I don’t really cook with dried fruit often…but good idea to rehyrdate them!

  2. sarah

    Reconstituted dried fruit?? Maybe, I dunno. These bakes look yummy.

    So I made your coconut cranberry quick bread ( sans cranberries con blueberries, per your suggestion), into muffins . Oh wow, so good! The texture of oat & coconut flours is a definite winner, & I love the tang from the greek yogurt :). Thanks!
    Xxx

  3. Erica

    It’s “reconstitute.” I only know because I help my students reconstitute sundried tomatoes on the daily. These look yummy!

  4. Hannah

    Looks fabulous! Funny this is, I love the texture of re-plumped dried cranberries, but not of raisins… chocolate always wins 😉

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