Banana Bread

 

This is basic banana bread from The Joy of Cooking, but it's fab, especially if you have old, soft, ripe bananas. Jamie loves banana bread, so I tried to make a little J in a heart with chocolate chips, but forgot that loaves of banana bread rise and crack so it didn't work out as expected. Still tasty, though!

Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups flour
3/4 cups sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled
3 large ripe bananas, mashed well
1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350 and flour and butter a loaf pan. In a large bowl, combine the dry ingredients.

In a medium bowl, combine bananas, eggs, butter, and vanilla and mix well.

Gently fold the wet ingredients into the dry and do not over mix (that will make for rubbery banana bread). It's okay if there are still spots of flour.

Pour into the loaf pan and bake for about an hour, until a tooth pick comes out clean. Enjoy!