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🍌 Banana Bread is a delicous way to use left over bananas in your kitchen 🍌

⮴ 🍌 Information 🍌 ⮷

• Prep Time

  5-10

  minutes

• Cook Time

  70-75

  minutes

• Total Time

  75-85

  minutes

• Servings

  10+

  Slices

⮴ 🍌 Recipie Video 🍌 ⮷

⮴ 🍌 Tools Needed 🍌 ⮷

• Oven
• 5-9 Inch Loaf Pan
• Measureing Cups
• Measuring Spoons
• Large Bowl
• Small Bowl
• Fork
• Whisk
• Spatula
• Parchment Paper
• Toothpick
• Optional (Cooling Rack)

⮴ 🍌 Ingredients 🍌 ⮷

• 2 Cups Flour
• 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1/2 Cup (1 Stick) Unsalted Butter, Softened
• 1 Cup Sugar
• 2 Eggs, at Room Temperature
• 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• 3 Medium-Large or (1 Cup Mashed) Very Ripe Banana's
• 1/2 Cup Sour Cream

🍌 Optional Ingredients 🍌

• 1 cup Dried Cranberries
• 1/3 cup Wallnuts
• 2/3 cup Chocolate Chips

⮴ 🍌 Directions 🍌 ⮷

1. 1. Pre-heat the oven to 325°F (140°C fan-forced oven or 160°C conventional oven). Then line a 5- by 9-inch loaf pan with enough wax paper to drape over the long sides. This will make the baked bread a cinch to remove and the pan easy to clean. Set pan aside.
2. 2. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into a medium bowl. In a large bowl, cream the butter using an electric mixer. Gradually add the sugar, scraping down the sides of the bowl as necessary. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Next, add the vanilla extract and blend briefly. Set both bowls aside.
3. 3.Peel the bananas and place them in a separate bowl. Mash them with a fork or a potato masher and measure out 1 cup. Add the sour cream and stir to blend. Set the bowl aside.
4. 4. Using a wooden spoon, blend a third of the dry mixture into the butter-sugar mixture. Add the rest of the ingredients in this order, stirring well after each addition: half of the banana mixture, half of the remaining dry mixture, the rest of the banana mixture, the rest of the dry mixture. Next, add mix-ins if desired (see below).
5. 5.Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top with a spoon. Bake on the center oven rack until a tester inserted deep into the center of the bread comes out clean, about 70 to 75 minutes.
6. 6.Transfer the bread to a cooling rack and cool it in the pan for about 20 minutes. Using the waxed paper, lift the bread from the pan and place it on the rack. Pull down the sides of the paper and allow the bread to cool thoroughly before slicing. Makes 10 or more servings.

⮴ 🍌 Optional Mix Ins 🍌 ⮷

1. 1.Chocolate Chip Walnut Banana Bread: Follow steps 1 through 4, then stir 2/3 cup mini chocolate chips and 1/3 cup chopped walnuts into the batter.
2. 2.Cranberry Banana Bread: Follow steps 1 through 4, then stir 1 cup dried cranberries into the batter.

⮴ 🍌 Sources 🍌 ⮷

Original Recipie from Food.com

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Banana Bread Image from Flicker