Best Damn Banana Bread
Simple and delicious banana bread from my kids' pre-school days.
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 6 ripe bananas mashed
- 4 beaten eggs
Dry Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp. Baking soda
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Stir together flour, salt and baking soda and set aside.
- Cream butter and sugar until well blended, it does not have to be light and fluffy since you want some density to your bread. Beat in eggs one at a time.
- Add flour mixture and bananas to butter-egg batter alternating dry ingredients with bananas, begin with third of the flour mixture, then half of the banana, third of flour, the remaining half of bananas and end with remaining dry ingredients. Honestly, in a pinch, just dump it all in at once and stir well to combine completely. Should be fine.
- For muffins, line 2-12 cup muffin tins with paper liners or butter and flour cups. Fill about 2/3 full. Bake for approximately 20 minutes or until tester comes out clean.
- For loaf bread, use 2 buttered and floured 9x5 loaf pans and fill equally with batter. Bake 45-55 minutes or until tester comes out clean. The top of bread will be fairly dark when done. Cover top with tin foil if the bread begins to brown too much. Remove from oven and allow to cool.
- Makes 2 loaves or 2 dozen muffins
Notes
Be creative! Add 1/2 cup chocolate chips to batter and/or chopped toasted pecans or fresh blueberries. For the bread in the photos, 3 heaping teaspoonfuls of Nutella were plopped and swirled into the batter before baking. Recipe can be halved.