My husband claims to have never tried banana bread before, so on a rainy Halloween I baked my first one for him to try. I love banana bread and always wanted to bake it, but was never able to keep bananas around long enough to mature perfectly. There are a million recipes out there, so I tried a pretty basic one. It didn’t call for walnuts, which was weird. Mine had to—he’s nuts for walnuts!
Ingredients
- 4 ripe, smashed bananas
- 1/3 cup melted butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1.5 cups walnuts
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp baking soda
- pinch of salt
- 1.5 cups flour
Bake
- preheat oven to 175c
- mix butter and bananas
- mix in sugar, egg, vanilla, walnuts
- sprinkle in baking powder and salt
- include flour
- pour batter into loaf pan
- place a few whole walnuts on top (they’re so good crunchy)
- bake for 60m
Easy and so yummy. Nicco loved it, but brought up a good question, ‘when do you eat it?’ So guys, what’s your favorite way to eat it and what time of day?
9 comments
Great pictures – Nice manicure! I like it for breakfast and for snacking during the day. Not with dinner or after dinner. Omg. Must try the recipe. But knowing me I will probably cheat and buy Bisquick at Castroni (http://romeifyouwantto.com/only-in-rome/)….and tell Francesco I made it from scratch 🙂
I love your blog!
Agreed! I noticed that I don’t eat it past lunch hour, but I snack on it a lot up until then!
Thanks for the kudos & ditto. FYI, I’m a control freak and only do my own manicures. I have sat down for a million manis and no one ever seems to make me happy. I should open shop I guess.
🙂
That was gooood!
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