BANANA BREAD RECIPE

Guess what I did?  1st Man baked!

You might remember HERE where we got some bananas from a coworker and we put them up in freezer bags.  Recently, I began researching banana bread recipes and found several.  I combined them until we found one that we really loved.

INGREDIENTS:

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1/4 tsp salt

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp baking soda

3 or 4 super ripe bananas, about 1 1/2 cups mashed

8 TBSP (1 stick) of unsalted butter, melted and cooled

3/4 cup packed light brown sugar

2 large eggs beaten

1 tsp vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease and flour an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 loaf pan.

Mix wet ingredients - to the mashed bananas add the beaten eggs, butter, vanilla, and brown sugar.

Whisk dry ingredients - flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.

Add the dry into the wet, a little at a time, stirring to incorporate until flour disappears.

Pour batter into pan and pop into the preheated oven.  Bake 55 to 70 minutes, depending on your oven, until knife in the center comes out clean.  Our one was 60 minutes on the nose.  Check it after about 40 minutes just to make sure it's not browning too much.  If it is, you can put foil over the top.

Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes.  Then turn it out and let it cool.

Slice and ENJOY!  So good.  It's even better a day or two later.  Can keep at room temp for a day or in the refrigerator for up to a week. 

If it lasts that long.

My next plan is to try walnuts and/or chocolate chips.