Chai Banana Bread with Coffee Spice Icing

     Picture it: there I was, planted in front of the computer screen, already with two dessert ideas for Cinnamon Week, when, LO! And behold! Leave it to a Kitchen Psycho to come up with her own idea! I thought of Chai, and all the wonderful spices that are incorporated into that lovely Eastern drink. Nutmeg, clove, cinnamon. YES. 
     So, as has become my custom when I think I have invented a new dish, I search the internet to see who beat me to it. I found only one recipe that fit my precise idea, then I made an icing for it, and believe you me, the icing really does make the cake! Or bread, in this case. This one smells absolutely GORGEOUS as it bakes!
--- Jenny

CHAI BANANA BREAD WITH COFFEE SPICE ICING
(inspired by recipe on Food.com)

3 bananas, mashed
1/3 cup butter, melted
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon allspice
3/4 teaspoon cardamom
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 pinch salt
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup  slivered almonds 

     Preheat oven to 350º. In a large mixing bowl, mix butter into mashed bananas. Add sugar, egg and almond extract. Sprinkle baking soda, baking powder, spices and salt over entire mixture and mix well. Add flour and nuts last and mix well. Pour batter into buttered loaf pan. Bake 60-75 minutes. Cool on a rack before removing from pan.
Note: As a substitute for allspice, you may mix equal amounts of cinnamon, ground cloves, and nutmeg.

Coffee Spice Icing
2 ½ cups powdered sugar
2 tablebspoon butter, melted
¼ cup brewed coffee
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg

     Blend with a mixer. Add coffee or powdered sugar until desired consistency is achieved. 

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