Recipe: Banana Banana Bread

BANANA BANANA BREAD

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter, room temp
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
2 large eggs, beaten
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 1/3 cups mashed very over ripe bananas*

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease, or spray with Pam, a 9x5 loaf pan.

In a large bowl, mix together the flour, soda and salt.

In separate bowl, beat together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs, vanilla and mashed bananas until well blended.


Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir only long enough to just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.

Bake for 60-65 minutes until a toothpick inserted into center of loaf comes out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

*Make sure to use bananas with a lot of black on them for the best flavor! The blacker the bananas, the stronger the banana flavor of the bread.

TIP: Instead of throwing away those black over ripe bananas, peel them and place in zip lock bags, or wrap in plastic wrap and freeze. Soon you will have enough of them frozen to make banana recipes anytime you choose.