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Four overripe bananas and brown butter. The loaf that actually improves every day for three days. Tested 14 times to get the crumb right.

The extra step of browning the butter adds a toasty, nutty depth that elevates these from good to obsession-worthy.

1:1 gluten-free flour swap plus a splash of almond flour for texture. Undetectable. My celiac husband ate seven of these.

Replace 30g butter with tahini. Swirl more tahini and honey on top before baking. Sesame and banana is an underrated combination.

Coconut oil toasted until fragrant substitutes for brown butter almost perfectly. Flax eggs do the work. Tested 4 times.

Add 200g dark chocolate chips. Swirl 2 tbsp cocoa in the batter before the final fold. The brown butter keeps it from being cloying.