Banana Bread - March 4, 2012

Ok, so I figure if something has enough sugar in it, it's considered a dessert. This banana bread has sugar in it (and chocolate chips) so it's dessert in my book.

I used two recipes for these banana breads, so here you go. Both are really good.

 Banana Bread

Ingredients:

1/2 c. margarine (softened)

1 egg

1 tsp. baking powder

1 C. mashed bananas

3 T. milk

1 C. sugar

2 C. flour

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 C. chopped nuts (opt.)

Mix all ingredients together and spread into a greased and floured loaf pan. Bake at 350 and check after 1 hour.

Moist Banana Bread

Ingredients:

1/3 C. shortening

1 C. sugar

2 eggs

2-3 ripe bananas (mashed)

1 tsp. baking soda

3/4 C. + 2 T. flour

Cream together shortening and sugar. Add rest of the ingredients and mix thoroughly. Bake at 350 for 1 hour. Makes 1 loaf.

I don't really remember which recipe is which loaf, but I think the one with the chocolate chips is the first recipe.

Husband Review:

He likes banana bread, and I find that I'm making it more frequently now. I don't like bananas. I love banana bread, but plain bananas gross me out. Before our daughter was born, I never bought bananas because I never ate them. Bella enjoys her bananas, so I find that I have them around a lot. What a perfect excuse to make banana bread! I think out of the two recipes above, I prefer the first one. Mix whatever you want in it. I grew up with a dad that didn't like nuts in his baked goods, so to this day, I omit the nuts while baking. I think these would be divine with some walnuts mixed in. Try it yourself, and tell me what you add to spruce up banana bread.