Banana Bread

This is Paula Deen's Walnut Banana Bread.  I took it from her new cookbook Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible.  I made it minus the walnuts.  

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups mashed ripe bananas (2 large or 3 medium)

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 large eggs

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. baking soda

3/4 cup walnuts, lightly toasted (or you could use chocolate chips instead)

1. Place a rack in the bottom third of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees.  Grease a 9 by 5 inch loaf pan with butter or some kind of oil.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together the bananas, sugar, oil, eggs, and vanilla.  In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.  Using a rubber spatula, gently fold the flour mixture into the banana mixture just to combine.  Stir in the walnuts.  Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and smooth the top.
3. Bake until a toothpick placed in the center comes out clean and top is golden brown, 1 hour and 10 minutes.  Let cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes.  Then pop the bread out of the pan and let cool completely on the rack before slicing and serving.

Makes 1 nine inch loaf

When the bananas are getting ripe, I always make this.  The kids will eat this sometimes better than a banana. 

 Enjoy!

Sherry

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