🍂🌙 AUTUMN RENEW BANANA BREAD 🍂🌙
autumn is the perfect time to come back to your practice or dive even deeper, to let old parts of us go to the wind and embrace what fulfills us in the present, a time to restore our heavy hearts and bodies. all these things were on my mind as I worked an old banana bread recipe w/ a little autumnal magic, enjoy ✨
INGREDIENTS:
-1/2c melted coconut oil (or butter) -3 medium over-ripe bananas
-2 eggs -1/3c honey (or maple syrup) -2c AP flour -2tbsp flax seeds
-2 tsp baking powder -1/4tsp salt -3/4c walnut pieces (optional) -1/4c pepitas
-1/4c coffee -2 tbsp honey -spices: cinnamon, nutmeg
DIRECTIONS:
-Preheat oven to 325°F and grease pan (bundt like below or loaf)
-Mash/mix bananas until broken down then pour in melted oil, mix. Add in eggs then honey, spices and mix until well-combined.
-In separate bowl, mix together dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking soda) then slowly mix into wet ingredients to make a smooth cake batter. Fold in nuts.
-Melt remaining honey into coffee then add pepitas and flax seeds. Pour this mixture into the greased pan FIRST then add batter on top. Bake for ~1hr or until a toothpick comes out clean.
CORRESPONDENCES:
*Pepitas: abundance, protection, fosters heightened divination
*Flax (linwood) seed: prosperity, protection from evil spirits, healing
*Cinnamon: communication, energy, good fortune, passion
*Nutmeg: good luck, clear sight and encourage divination
*Walnut: empower your intentions, access to divine energy
*Honey: community, purification, binding the magic of the recipe