Recipe: Fruitcake Banana Bread

This year, my dad received a fruitcake for Christmas. He called me to complain that he couldn't enjoy it anymore because regular fruitcake sucks compared to my fruitcake banana bread. It has all the festive flavors of fruitcake, but instead of having the texture of a syrup-soaked chunk of clay-rich soil, it actually feels like eating, well, cake. A dense cake, because it IS still meant to have something of the character of a fruitcake, but a cake regardless.
He missed it so much that, yes, I'm pulling out this recipe and I'm about to make it again in February. Which I'm fine with, because this is my fanciest recipe that I've done the best at documenting and worked the hardest to refine- it would be a shame if I could only pull it out in December.
Recipe under the cut, as always!

( Read more... )