TWD ~ Fresh Mango Bread…the only time it’s OK to have hair in your food

Can you believe that I actually baked this on Wednesday last week? You’d think that since I baked so early, I’d have this thing written before the weekend, let along before 7pm today. You’d've thought that, but then you’d been wrong, just like the Bride. Nope, I got it in my head that I had to get my savory cupcake baked this weekend, and that’s what it took to get it done…all weekend. And prior to Saturday I was trying to play catch up with my Recipe Round-Ups which I’ve only managed to get last week’s out. Busy, busy, busy.

But who cares. You’re mad about mangos and want to know how they faired in a quick bread. I can tell you they faired well, but got a bit lost in the cinnamon. Apparently it was her ardent love of fruit that brought Kelly of Baking with the Boys to select the Fresh Mango Bread from Dorie’s tome of baked goodness.  

The mango, considered the “apple of the tropics”, is a drupe that you can find in multiple varieties. Containing a plethora of vitamins and minerals, including 17 amino acids, and antioxidant vitamins A, B, C, and E, the mango is marketed as a “superfruit“, a savvy choice for the health conscious. There was some question by TWDers on picking and cutting up the mango. I suggested this post from Coconut & Lime on signs of a good mango. Amy Ruth from Amy Ruth Bakes provided a link to At Home With Vicki Bensinger who outlined a couple of ways to cut a mango. I have to say that Lifescript also offered an informative and comprehensive article about the mango that includes health benefits and cooking and storage methods.

This was a good recipe, but I have to say that the mango got lost in the cinnamon for me. As written, the recipe included ginger, raisins, and lime zest, all of which didn’t sound appealing to me so I omitted them. Maybe if I had included them they would have brought out the flavor of the mango…I don’t know.

This recipe is super easy to make. The only thing that many of the TWDers, myself included, seemed to run into was that we couldn’t get 2 cups of fruit from one mango. Thankfully I bought two mangos when I went to the store. While preparing the batter I kept wondering how in the world were all those ingredients going to fit in that itty bitty pan.

At one point I thought I was going to have a bread explosion in the oven, but thankfully it behaved and stayed in the pan…for the most part.

I have to say that this was a beautiful bread. When you slice it you’ll see the beautiful mango color speckled throughout the bread. This is also the one time you won’t have to worry about hair in your food because if your mangos are a bit overripe, their hair will show up. Despite a lack of mango kick, this was one tasty bread.

I couldn’t resist this picture with my love, Arlo, in the background.

Tagged as: Bread, Mango, Quick Breads, TWD