Instant Pot Banana Bread with Coconut

It has taken me a lot of time to actually muster the courage to try a cake in the instant pot. Well, after my first attempt… It was too disastrous to discuss let alone consider posting about. But, then I keep seeing all these amazing recipes. I have my eye on this one and last evening, we had three over ripe bananas at home.

My Instant Pot Banana Bread Story

We had been mostly at home given all the rain and I knew we needed to use them for banana bread. While the rain certainly broke the intense 100 degree spell of heat we had been having, I still did not feel inspired to actually turn on the oven. That is something about banana bread, we get the most perfect banana bread worthy bananas in summer. Yes, especially those weeks in august when you run miles away from the oven.  So this was out of the question.

But the nagging wish to make banana bread lingered. The daughter was home after 3 weeks… It was nice to have my brood back and intact. In fact, Deepta has come back excited after meeting so many people from different part of the world. Especially, excited about meeting someone from Saudi Arabia. Who knew?

How this became a banana bread in the Instant Pot

Well, I could not help thinking, there is always the instant pot. Other than my failed attempt, I knew that the instant pot cakes yielded a dense and moist texture. We like the moist part of it. No one is particularly excited about the dense part of it. So, with some thinking I added two ingredients that add lightness to traditional baking – buttermilk and shredded coconut.

Added both of them to these creation. The net result was moist and not overly dense. So, yes, looks like we have a keeper for the summer days when we do not want to turn on the oven. I also used cake flour, homemade version.

BTW, a lot of Indian homes use a conventional stove top pressure cooker for baking cakes.

A few notes on instant pot cake making.

Do 

Sift and re-shift your flour, this is important

Grease your baking/cooking tin well

Cover the cake with foil while steaming.

Do Not

Weigh your cake down with extra ingredients.

We love banana-based desserts, like the Chocolate Chip Banana Bread and Best Ever Banana Bread Muffins.

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