Mar 12 2007
Banana Bread
This is a delicious quick banana bread recipe that will leave your family raving! If we are having company over, I will make it into a loaf and slice it, but my girls love to have it made into muffins – they are the perfect size to add to a lunchbox or for a quick snack!
½ cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
¼ tsp. salt
2 cups flour
½ tsp. baking soda
1 ½ tsp. baking powder
1 ½ Tbsp. milk (sour, if possible – see note)
1 tsp. vanilla
4 large ripe bananas – pureed*
½ cup chopped nuts (optional)
½ cup chopped dried fruit**
Preheat oven to 350°F. In a large bowl, sift together flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. In a separate container, combine milk and vanilla.
With a mixer, cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs and beat.
Alternate dry goods with bananas and milk. Stir in dried fruit and/or nuts.
Pour the wet dough into either a bread pan or muffin tins and bake.
Bake in a loaf pan for 50 – 60 minutes.
Bake in muffin tins or mini loaf pans for 35 – 45 minutes.
If you are using a glass or dark-sided pan, reduce the heat to 325°F, and extend the cooking time.
It also bakes very well in a stone bread pan, stone muffin tins, or in a baking pan set on a baking stone. Just make sure you do not set glass or corningware directly on your stone, as it could cause them both to crack.
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*Depending on how ripe they are, I often throw the bananas in whole & let the mixer break them up – the more ripe they are the better it works. This method leaves you with small chunks of banana – quite tasty!
**We usually use chopped dried apricots or dried cranberries.
note: to make sour milk simply add a dash or lemon juice or vinegar to the milk. For this small amount of milk, I generally just use regular milk rather than sour. Buttermilk also works very well in this recipe.
The recipe will work with 3 bananas, however it will not be as moist. Alternately, you can add 1/2 cup of applesauce in place of one of the bananas.
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The best banana bread EVER!!!!