The Best Banana Bread Recipe I Found All Year

In light of the pandemic's recent one-year anniversary (omfg), I am circling back to everyone's favorite pastime from the early days of the end-of-days: baking banana bread. 

Over the many, many months locked at home, I whipped up countless loaves and muffins to varying degree of success. When looking for my next project, my google searches ranged from "fast easy banana bread no eggs" because I didn't have patience or eggs in the fridge, to "banana bread spices nuts rum" when I was feeling *ambitious*, and tons of other queries in between.

To date, one recipe stands out as the very very very best: Ricardo's Ultra Moist Banana Bread. The ingredients are a drop unusual (lime juice and coconut milk?), the prep is quite messy (three bowls!), but the end result is insaaane. Soft, chewy, interesting depth of flavor. Honestly, it tasted like CAKE. We ate the whole thing in under twenty-four hours.

So, did you bake any damn banana bread this year? What recipe(s) do you really love?

Side note: In case you're wondering what to do with the leftover coconut milk, I used mine to make chia pudding.