Reviewed: Dec. 1, 2010

These are quite delicious. I didn't have 3 bananas so I I just used 2. still has plenty of banana flavor. I also made them into muffins where the cook time was about 25 minutes. It made 18 muffins. Very good recipe.

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lalenas

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Burbank, California, USA

Living In: Walnut Creek, California, USA

Reviewed: Jul. 30, 2010

I used pureed fresh cranberries and 2 c whole wheat flour and 2 c white flour. Cooked it in muffin tins for 40 min. Very sweet and light.

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Momzilla

Home Town: Sycamore, Kansas, USA

Living In: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Reviewed: Apr. 21, 2010

Okay. Be sure to not use the cranberry gel.

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LoveMexiFood

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Tucson, Arizona, USA

Reviewed: Mar. 14, 2010

Excellent. I used 1/2 cup margarine instead of shortening, and the whole can of whole cranberry sauce. I agree with the other reviewers that more berries are needed, and next time I will probably reduce the sugar to 2 cups as well.

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QUILTNCAT

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Los Angeles, California, USA

Living In: Joshua Tree, California, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 4, 2010

I had a 303 can of cranberry sauce I needed to use and used this recipe with very good results. I reduced the sugar to 1 1/2 cups (more like bread than cake), 1/2 cup shortening was enough to cream the fat, sugar and eggs with plenty of volume, and I used water instead of milk and stirred into the sauce. The extra 3/4 cup or so of cranberry sauce in the can gave extra needed moisture. I added 1/2 teaspoon salt to help bring out the flavors (probably not necessary if using salted butter as someone suggested). I omitted the vanilla since vanilla tends to mask the banana flavor in banana bread. It was somewhat crumbly when still warm but sliced very nicely when completely cooled, which is typical of using shortening I think. Also, next time I am adding 1 teaspoon of dried orange peel. I always add this to regular banana bread with good results and it is always a good combination with cranberries. This recipe is definitely a keeper.

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Sharon D.

Reviewed: Jan. 1, 2010

I cut the recipe in half to make just one loaf (but kept the 3 bananas (very ripe) and 1 cup cranberry sauce). I also made some changes to make it healthier. I used only 1/2 cup brown sugar and substituted apple sauce for the shortening. It turned out moist and delicious.

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EVELLINGSON

Living In: San Francisco, California, USA

Reviewed: Dec. 21, 2009

this bread was AMAZING. i replaced the shortening with butter and repaced the milk with cream, also added no walnuts. the batter was almost better than the bread! in my opinion, you could use a little more cranberry sauce but overall, it was outstanding!

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BellaMarie

Reviewed: Dec. 12, 2009

I mostly followed the recipe. I had little bits of stuff to use up, so I got a little creative. I didn't have a full cup of cranberry sauce, but I did have an aging mango, so incorporated that into the recipe. Between cranberry sauce and mango, I had about 1 1/2 cups of "liquid", so I left out the milk. I had 1/8 cup of brown sugar hanging around, so I added white sugar to make 2 cups total, and the recipe was still sweet enough. I didn't have any shortening, so I used 1-1/3 sticks of butter and 3/4 c of oil and beat those in with the sugar til it was light and fluffy. I put orange extract to up the "tang" factor after reading other reviews. I baked 1/2 of the batter into a loaf and 1/2 into muffins. Came out great! I would definitely make again and want to try with more cranberry sauce and chopped cranberries. Surely a keeper!

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kbk043

Reviewed: Nov. 30, 2009

yummy, needs more cranberry sauce.

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busybaker

Cooking Level: Expert

Living In: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Reviewed: Aug. 27, 2009

My son chose this recipe to make and of course I supervised since he is only 10. I found the bread a little dry don't know if it's because we used whole cranberry sauce?! My son loves it...We also put in a few dried cranberries since we all love cranberries. If we make it again, I'll add another very ripe banana and frozen cranberries to help with moisture issue. The nutmeg was quite strong and took over some of the banana and cranberry taste. Overall, it's really good and my son is gonna take a loaf to share at his sleepover tonight.

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