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The Flavor-Enhancing Step To Give Bananas Before Making Bread For A Show-Stopping Loaf By Haley McNamara Nov. 7, 2025 11:00 am EST

You may never go back to making your favorite banana bread recipe the same again after adding one revolutionary step: caramelizing the bananas. This makes your bread taste like old-school flambéed Bananas Foster had a baby with a regular banana bread recipe. I wish I could take credit for coming up with this hack, but Vivian Villa, chef and founder of UnButter , a plant-based butter company, is the mastermind behind it.

According to Villa, the reason caramelized bananas taste so luxurious isn't just the butter — it's what happens to the moisture released from both the fruit and butter as they cook down. "Evaporating the water in the

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