This rum and raisin banana bread is made without refined sugar, packed with punchy banana and rum flavour, and finished with a naturally sweetened vanilla rum glaze.
I can’t adult. Anyone else out there who can relate? I’ve been living away from the comfort of my family home for nearly five years now, and most of the time I still feel like I’m paddling around an ocean in circles.
It’s likely a cliche by now, but I really wish they taught you more useful life skills in school. Understanding mortgages, investing, credit, insurance, hell, even learning how to properly do my taxes would have been more useful than memorising the periodic table. What a joke.
Jamaican Banana Rum Bread
However, I do have one lesson from my school days that I’ve held onto over the years and find very useful in my daily life: discovering that rum and raisin is a delicious combination.
But, as with the best life lessons, this didn’t materialise from school classes; it came from my grandmother. I distinctly remember her ordering two flavours whenever we went out for ice cream. One was maple pecan and the other was rum and raisin. And she loved them. Well, to be honest, she loved all ice cream, but these two flavours stand out in my mind.
As a child who bounced between cotton candy, bubblegum, and mint chocolate chip, I couldn’t quite understand her passion for ice cream that contained dried fruit and booze.
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When you’re lost down the Google road somewhere between Fixed, Variable, or Tracker Rate Avenue and Credit Card Comparison Lane, you need a little rum in your life. I’m veering off course slightly, though, and reaching for slices of this Rum and Raisin Banana Bread in place of ice cream.
Fittingly, this boozy banana bread recipe was developed from my grandmother’s original banana bread recipe! The base of the recipe remains, but instead of using white sugar to sweeten it, I added another banana and a little bit of coconut sugar for some extra caramel notes. I felt it paired very well with the rum.
I found when I added the rum straight into the batter, all of the flavour cooked off in the oven and it was barely noticeable. The absorption method allows the dried raisins to become super infused with the alcohol, so when they’re baked in the bread, most of the rum flavour remains.
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Something to note before you start is the expiry date on your raisins. The first time I made this banana bread recipe, I used raisins that had been in my cupboard forever. They weren’t able to absorb enough of the rum to really impart much flavour in the final bake. So check your bag and grab some fresh raisins!
I hope you love this Rum and Raisin Banana Bread recipe. It’s soft and fluffy with just the right amount of moisture from the bananas to make it a little gooey. It packs a punch of flavour both from the fruit and the booze and carries slight caramel notes from the coconut sugar. The vanilla rum glaze is, of course, optional. However, I highly recommend you give it a go. You’ll love it!
In fact, I’d say that this banana bread is pretty magical. It may not solve all of your adulting problems, but it sure helps you find them a bit more humorous as you work your way through the loaf.
Banana Rum Bread — Janelle Marie
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A soft, fluffy refined sugar free banana bread infused with the flavours of rum and raisin and topped with a sugar-free vanilla rum glaze.
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Updated to add: This is a post I’ve decided to update with some new love. I figured it was time. I’ve added some new goodies to the post, but basically left what I’d written so I can look back on it and remember. 😉
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Ok, well not completely, like totally, like a-place-for-everything-and-everything-in-its’-place like moved in, but we are getting there. At least I know we’re NOT going to be moving for AT LEAST another year, maybe two or more if I can help it!
I really like this house, the location, the neighbors we’ve met so far AND I can take some pretty great pictures right in the dining room ON my very own kitchen table because of some pretty awesome windows.
If you aren’t familiar with what’s been happening in my life lately (and that in part, is due to the fact that I haven’t been posting regularly) we moved in the middle of October from the White Mountains of New Hampshire to the desert of Phoenix, Arizona.
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We are originally from Rhode Island and moved to Arizona back in 2002. After being here for 11 years, we decided that we wanted to return to New England to be closer to family and give mountain living a try. Not the rugged mountain living – we had the luxuries of heat, hot water (when we didn’t run out of both of those – and twice at the same time), indoor plumbing, and even internet!
The desire to live in Arizona returned after 14 months of NH living, so we MAJORLY downsized and returned to the West. We lived in a rental for about a month and a half before finally settling in our current home.
If you’ve ever moved and I’m sure you have, it’s just so unsettling and a pain in the royal tuckus! I like being organized, knowing where
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I’m a happier person when I’m settled and isn’t that what the family ultimately wants anyway? A settled momma equals a happy momma. And WIFE! 😉
As soon as I got my kitchen said up, I decided it was time to christen it with a loaf of banana bread. Banana Bread smells like home to me!
Way back in the day, I received a Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook as a wedding present and LOVED that thing! I wrote notes in it, even adapted some recipes. So, that may very well have been the spark that started this whole blog. But…
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The dang thing out!! Can you believe it?! I have NO idea what came over me. I thought I needed the newer updated version and should discard the old one, but
Had a MAJOR mind-fart. Actually, I’d call it way more than a mind fart: Lack of judgment, a momentary state of dementia, a lobotomy maybe or all three of those combined?
WHY on God’s green earth would I EVER have thrown that thing away????!!!! Odd because I KEPT cookbooks of my mother’s
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