Cake of the week: banana bread and muffins

Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups melted butter
• 1 ¾ cups brown sugar
• 4 eggs
• 3 tsp vanilla extract plus ½ tsp almond extract
• grated rind of 1 orange
• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 2 cups white flour
• 1 tsp salt
• ½ tsp baking soda
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp nutmeg
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 2 cups well-mashed ripe bananas soaked in 1 cup strong black coffee
• ¾ cup nuts
• 1 cup chocolate chips

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Preparation

• Beat in a large bowl, beginning with sugar or honey and butter, add eggs one at a time. Add remaining ingredients, and beat until light in color.
• Add flour mixture and banana mush alternatively to butter mixture, beginning and ending with flour.
• After each addition mix gently to combine, but do not beat or otherwise overmix - this toughens and dries a cake.
• Add nuts last. Generously butter 2 loaf pans and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Divide batter and bake.
• Cool 10 minutes in the pan, then remove to finish cooling.