Recipe: Yummy 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 cook Banana Bread using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Banana Bread

1. It's 1 cup of granulated sugar.
2. Prepare 8 tbs (1 stick) of unsalted butter, room temperature.
3. Prepare 2 of large eggs.
4. Prepare 3 of ripe bananas.
5. It's 1 tbs of milk.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
7. Prepare 2 cups of all purpose flour.
8. You need 1 tsp of baking powder.
9. It's 1 tsp of baking soda.
10. It's 1 tsp of salt.

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 step by step

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter a 9x5x3 inch loaf pan..
2. 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 addition..
3. In a small bowl, mash the bananas with a fork. Mix in the milk and cinnamon. In another bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt..
4. Add the banana mixture to the creamed mixture and stir until combined. Add dry ingredients, mixing just until flour disappears..
5. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Set aside to cool on a rack for 15 minutes. Remove bread from pan, invert onto rack and cool completely before slicing..
6. OPTIONAL MUFFINS (as pictured): Instead of using a bread pan, place batter into a buttered muffin tin, 3/4 full. Bake for 40 minutes, check center and let cool..
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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.