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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.

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

The French countryside batter pudding. Somewhere between a crepe and a flan. No pitting the cherries — the pits keep them from going mushy and add a subtle almond flavor.

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

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

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

Summer blueberries instead of cherries. No pit concerns. Add a little lemon zest to the batter.