This is a recipe from a dear friend of my wife.
I had to give her friend some credit based on the post name.
This is the most incredible banana bread I have ever had the pleasure to enjoy in my life.
My daughters will actually stop eating the bananas so that Pamela will make this.
Truth.
When it’s warm out of the oven, a melting piece of butter on the top off a slice is paradise.
3- large (ripe) bananas
1- cup sugar
1/4 cup butter, softened
1-tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cups flour
1- tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans work well)
Mix all together.
Pour into a greased loaf pan.
Bake at 325 for 60 minutes or until toothpick comes out clear (inserted into middle of loaf)
Tags: awesome, baked goods, banana bread, butter, dessert, old world recipe
August 28th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Why is that I can feel everything you post, start moving towards my hips???
Oh! Wait! It’s so they can be happy there with everything else isn’t it???
October 8th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
I’ve been on the search for a decent banana bread recipe. Too many these days are trying to be healthy, so they end up dry and bland and boring, whereas banana bread should be moist and yummy and fun. I just made this, and it certainly tasted good, but maybe it’s gone too far in the other direction – it’s incredibly, naughtily, tooth-rottingly sweet. I used bananas so ripe that you wouldn’t want to eat them, or if you did you couldn’t anyway because they’d dissolve before you finished peeling them. This of course contributes to the sugar content … but some similar recipes just use 1/3 cup! Anyway, I’d make this again, but I’d use waaaaay less sugar. By the way, I used one cup of white flour and 1/2 cup of whole wheat flour, which I think works well for this kind of recipe – you get a bit of virtue and wholewheat chewiness without feeling like you’re eating sawdust.
October 8th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Oh, one other thing – is that your actual photo of the finished product??? Mine is not only not only not all muffiny plumpness on top, it is actually slightly concave!
November 11th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
hey Mike, made the B Bread Diane- smells incredible, haven’t tried it yet tho…..
Funny, love to bake, don’t eat much. I’ll let you know how it goes. Got friends coming to try it….
Hugs
KG
November 11th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Oh, ps, I got big time muffiny plumpness….. (on 3 little loaf pans….)