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Ingredients:
4 cups all-purpose flour
1-teaspoon baking soda
1/2-teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup salted butter
1 1/2 cup brown sugar unpacked
4 whole eggs, beaten
4 oz. Banana schnapps
4 2/3 cups mashed overripe bananas
1/4 cup fine chopped dried apricots
¼ cup fine diced chopped dried pineapple
¼ cup fine diced chopped dried mango
¼ cup fine diced dried banana

Tipsy Tropical
Banana Bread

Printable Recipe

Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 2 9×5 inch loaf pans.
In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs, Banana schnapps and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Fold in dried fruit. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.

Cooking:
Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, and then turn out onto a wire rack.
Glaze: Melt over low heat 1 cup apricot jam with 4 oz. Banana schnapps and 2 tablespoons powdered sugar. Let cool slightly, spoon heavily over the top of banana loaves and let cool.

Yield:
2 loaves

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