Martha Meets Lucy

Brown Butter Bourbon Banana Bread (with Streusel!)

I had a whole post written about this, but there's nothing else to tell you that the title hasn't already. Brown butter. Bourbon. Streusel. (The bananas are not the important part here).

Fine. I'll try to tell you more. Brown butter and bourbon are BFF's. They totes gave each other best friend necklaces when they were in first grade and they both still have them. Sometimes I smell bourbon and think, "hmmm...smells brown buttery".

This bread. Oh, this bread. None of the components will jump up and punch you in the face. Except maybe the streusel, but that's just the way a streusel laced with big flakes of salt is in anything. As an added bonus for people who don't like bananas (aka me), the bourbon and brown butter mask a lot of the more...unpleasant flavors. Instead, its oh so subtley banana, but a major punch of nutty caramelly-ness.

 

I decided to double the streusel after I took this picture. You can thank me later.

 

Jeeze...I'm drooling again. I tried. I can't talk about this anymore. Just do it.

Brown Butter Toffee Blondies

I should not have done that.

I should not have taken that bite. Because now all I can think about is how much I just want to eat the whole pan and those blondies are one of the desserts for the party tomorrow night.

The party which is now at 50 people. I like to think they heard I was doing all the food and wanted in on that action*.

There is still a lot of food to be made, but I think you all need to have these blondies in your life. Because they have brown butter and toffee. And I think we established in the comment section of the broccoli post that we all love brown butter.

Brown butter and toffee? They go together better than Ben and Jerry. Peanut butter and Jelly. Me and looking ridiculous.