Banana Bread

Banana bread is one of my all time favourite baked goods, especially during the winter months. It’s flavourful sponginess and brown sugary goodness envelopes you in a warm, cozy feeling, and it just dunks so well in milk, coffee or tea! The main ingredient, ripe bananas, can always be stored in the freezer for a later date (I’ve been going a little overboard with this lately and have like 25 bananas in my freezer! Note to self: make some banana bread!) So for all you fellow banana bread lovers out there here is my basic banana bread recipe (and I say double it up and make 2 loaves at a time, it works well, goes fast and is great to share!) :

Banana Bread Recipe

Preparation Time: ½ hour

Baking Time: 1 hour & 5 minutes

Ingredients:

2 cups of flour
1 teaspoon of baking soda
¼ teaspoon of salt
½ cup of butter (soft)
¾ cup of brown sugar
2 eggs beaten
Allspice or cinnamon to taste
Vanilla to taste
2 to 3 ripe bananas mashed (depending on how large the bananas are or how dry/moist you’d like the bread to be)
You can also add nuts, raisins, dried cranberries or chocolate chips to take it to the next level.

Preparation:

1. Mix dry ingredients together in a bowl – flour, baking soda, salt, spices
2. Mix wet ingredients in a bowl or stand mixer – butter, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, ripe bananas mashed
3. Mix dry ingredients slowly into wet ingredients while stirring steadily until completely mixed and smooth in texture
4. At this point you can stir in some nuts, dried fruit or chocolate if you so desire
5. Lightly butter 9” or so loaf pan and pour in banana bread mixture
6. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees
7. Bake for 1 hour and 5 minutes
8. Remove from loaf pan and let rest for a few minutes before diving in!
9. Enjoy the goodness of good ol’ fashion banana bread!!