Recipe: Perfect Banana Bread

Banana Bread. Cream the sugar and butter in a large mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each. When life gives you bananas, it's time to make banana bread.

In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. You can have Banana Bread using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Banana Bread

1. You need 2 cups of all purpose flour.
2. Prepare 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
3. It's 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
4. Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
5. You need 1 tsp of cinnamon.
6. It's 1/2 cup of butter, softened.
7. Prepare 1 cup of granulated white sugar.
8. You need 2 of eggs.
9. You need 1/2 cup of vegetable oil.
10. Prepare 3 of mashed bananas.
11. Prepare 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts, chocolate chips or almonds- optional.

For this classic Banana Bread recipe, store overly-ripe bananas in the freezer until you have enough to make bread. Cut up thick slices of the Banana Bread and freeze them for a lunch box treat or for an on-the-go breakfast, toasted and spread with peanut or almond butter. No buttermilk on hand for this Banana Bread recipe? In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking soda and salt.

Banana Bread instructions

1. Pre-heat oven to 350. Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt together. Set aside..
2. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Gradually add one egg at a time to butter sugar mixture beating each one throughly..
3. Mash bananas, add to egg mixture. Stir in dry ingredients gradually. When well mixed add walnuts or almonds..
4. Bake at 350 for 45-60 or until toothpick comes out clean..
5. Serve warmed with butter..
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In another bowl, combine the eggs, bananas, oil, buttermilk and vanilla; add to flour mixture, stirring just until combined. In large bowl, beat sugar and butter with spoon until light and fluffy. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt. In a medium bowl, whisk together banana, melted butter, eggs, and vanilla. Fold banana mixture into flour mixture until just combined.