To die for Mascarpone Ricotta Olive Oil Banana Bread Cake Shenanigans !
I don’t always bake but when I do it is probably this Olive Oil Banana Bread, in this bundt cake pan I got from Target. And even if it isn’t this, it will have ricotta cheese in the mix. I swear by the magic of ricotta cheese! It all started with my ricotta blueberry muffins insanity, remember them ? True story!
This mascarpone olive oil banana bread you guys, this is insane too ! Like the best banana bread I’ve ever made, because on top of the moist ricotta cheese dough, it also has little bites of Mascarpone cheese all throughout. Oh My God moment, Heavenly indeed!
You see, I baked it in my small bundt cake pan, so I can call it my olive oil banana bread Bundt Cake. I know, I’m a food nerd. Because I never bake cakes, with the exception of duhh this ricotta cake over here and lately the ultimate Lemon Olive Oil Cake haha ! Whatever the case, whatever pan you choose to bake it in, I’m sure you could use one more banana bread in your recipe file.
Just because it is the holiday season, I also whipped up a quick lemon glaze to pour over the top, and a dusting of powder sugar to make-believe it is the middle of winter in my kitchen. Because let’s get real, that is about the most wintry landscape you’ll find around Southern California this year.
If you do decide to go for the glaze, please don’t be like me, have patience until the olive oil banana bread has cooled off completely. Then you drench it in that fabulous glaze. I’m sure you know why that is, but I seem to still forget at times 
And it wouldn’t be yours truly unless I sprinkled some fresh basil leaves and blossoms over the top. Which actually works together really well you guys.
If you want to go crazy healthy with this ricotta olive oil banana bread cake thing, then skip the frosting/glaze, but really, as I said, it is the holidays and it’s all about that glaze, and the ricotta and mascarpone cheese! Live it up!
On a serious note I’d like to reiterate how crazy good this Mascarpone Ricotta Olive Oil Banana Bread Is!
This is so good you need to run to the store right now and buy mascarpone cheese because you probably don’t have any in the fridge. But you really don’t wanna leave it out, and so you gotta do what you gotta do to make it happen.
I’d have to say, this is worth walking through a foot of snow uphill both ways kind of good ricota olive oil banana bread -Florentina xo’s
- ½ c extra virgin olive oil
- ½ c granulated cane sugar
- ½ c coconut sugar
- 2 large eggs, organic
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 bananas, sliced
- ½ c ricotta cheese
- 8 oz mascarpone cheese
- 1½ c all purpose flour
- ½ tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- zest from 1 organic lemon
- 1 tbsp lemon juice freshly squeezed
- 1 c powdered sugar
- 12 small basil leaves
- 1 tbsp basil blossoms or edible flowers for garnish , optional
- Preheat your oven to 350”F
- In a bowl whisk together the olive oil, eggs, vanilla extract, granulated sugar and coconut sugar until incorporated and creamy. Stir in the ricotta cheese and fold in the sliced bananas. Set aside.
- In another mixing bowl combine the flour, sea salt, baking soda and baking powder until incorporated.
- Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and fold together gently. Do not overwork it.
- Use a drop of olive oil to coat the inside of a small 6 cup bundt cake pan. Pour half of the banana bread mixture in and using a small spoon, scoop the mascarpone cheese all over the top. Pour in the remaining of the banana bread mixture and transfer to the oven.
- Bake the banana bundt cake bread for about 35 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Check it at 30 minutes.
- Transfer the banana bread to a cooling rack and allow it to cool off completely. Gently turn it upside down for the bread to slide out.
- Once completely cooled off work on the lemon glaze.
- In a small bowl whisk together the powder sugar, lemon juice and held of the lemon zest until perfectly combined and smooth.
- Pour the lemon glaze over the banana bundt cake bread and sprinkle over the top with the remaining lemon zest. Garnish with the fresh basil and blossoms or edible flowers.
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