Pan co’Santi With Bananas

Pan co’Santi is All Saints Day bread and National Cinnamon Day bread celebrated on November 1 and anytime year-round that you want.

Anything happy goes these days!

And this joy-filled bread has raisins, walnuts, dates, cranberries… and bananas too!

It’s very much like a banana bread. 🍌

Bananas make this a sweet breakfast bread that goes with your breakfast drink, hot cocoa, or coffee.

…But this banana bread is better… it’s heavenly and has landed on the plate like a meteor in the shape of the sun.

Like a shooting star under the sun to be more precise. It’s earthly food that was sliced in half to enjoy. 🌠☀️

It was sent from above with love. 💌🌤️

And you can have the same experience from your oven.

…Like bread that fell from the sky like a gift during Biblical Ezekiel’s era.

Bread afterall is life.

And LIFE is a gift.

Where we can appreciate the present as in now (and 🎁).

And for the blessing of our daily bread, like this cinnamon bread. 🍞

Bread used to be a food category on its own as one of the four basic food groups when I was growing up. And food is one of the 4 basic needs of survival, so that makes bread a need for us (and this one needs no knead 😊).

These days, since our lives are more complex and we have more healthy food options, we get to choose. Bread is one option in the broader acceptable grain category for healthy living.

And this saintly glowing bread of life is shaped here as sun, earth, moon and stars combined. 🌻🌕⭐️

You can make your celestial and grounded shapes with your baking molds. These could be bread, cake, and donuts.

And for this simple bread recipe, you can use this moist chocolate banana cake bread recipe and omit the cocoa.

Because of how moist and sweet it comes out piping hot from the oven is why I call it cake bread.

…Part of that comes from the nature of bananas.

Banana bread and I go way back before when I first knew what I wanted to do as a grown up that turned out to be a hotel catering planning professional career.

That’s when life was bananas working crazy long hours.

But a bananas life helps you handle chaos later on in life so you adapt better.

And banana fruits that are the star ingredient in this bread are a metaphor for adapting through the changes, as one fruit we can count on (or at least hasn’t changed much over the years).

The new bananas used for this recipe are soft bananas that got mushed up in a freezer bag and were left in the freezer.

Those are the best kind to use for this recipe, where they turn a dramatic scary black like a black car oil spoof.

You can bring out the frozen bananas on the same day as baking day… and let them warm up to room temps.

That’s one way this recipe is super simple.

Another way is there’s no need for yeast, proofing, or proofing time.

And a third way is you won’t need a mixer as you can do this all by hand with little effort.

…So maybe I got your attention now. 😊

And to lean in on easy recipes, I like to mix using a regular metal kitchen spoon instead of a whisk because the batter can get sticky and you end up losing a big part of the batter that way… and that could be the reason for a low-rise bread (as there’s less batter).

Mixing is also why this is more like a cake recipe, but turns out like a bread in the magical oven.

The baking secret is to use use enough flour so that the cake bread can stand almost firm on its own. That will better ensure a bread with homemade bread holes.

We don’t want too dense of a bread, but we want a moist bread that will rise and not look flat in the end. 

And if you’re like me, you probably like to see the ingredients first to see if you have them and want to use or eat them. 😋So here’s the Pan co’Santi bread easy ingredient list:

mashed bananas

coconut oil

maple syrup

eggs

almond milk

flour

baking soda

salt

ground cinnamon

optional: walnuts, dates, raisins, craisins

And that’s it!… go Pan co’Santi bananas and welcome in the new season weather and time changes!

You can also try other autumn bread recipes.