Kid-Friendly Banana Bread
Servings 6
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1.5 teaspoon cinnamon
- ⅓ cup butter
- ⅔ cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3 overripe bananas
- ¼ cup chopped walnuts or chopped pecans optional
- chocolate chips optional, to taste
Instructions
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon in large mixing bowl.
- In separate bowl, cream butter until light and fluffy. (I didn't bother pulling out the mixer here, and just hand-whisked everything.)
- Add sugar and eggs to the butter and mix well.
- Peel bananas, then chop into coins and add to the egg mixture and whisk until just mixed in.
- Stir in dry ingredients until just mixed.
- Stir in walnuts, then pour batter into greased loaf pan.
- Bake for about 60 minutes at 350 degrees, or until knife inserted in middle of loaf comes out clean.
- Cool in pan for about 10 minutes, then remove from pan and let cool as much as you can stand it before slicing.
Notes
We originally used just ½ teaspoon cinnamon in this recipe, but upped it to 1.5 teaspoon in subsequent batches. It's so much better that way that I've changed it up in the ingredient list, and I also highly recommend adding chocolate chips. :)