Banana Nut Bread

It’s the perfect time of year for Banana Nut Bread! Who doesn’t like banana nut bread?? Crazy people, that’s who! It’s so delicious warm out of the oven with maybe a little dab of butter. Delish! This is a great recipe and makes a lot of batter. This is my Daddy’s recipe and it’s delicious. He’s such a great baker so I love to make his recipes anytime I can. This recipe makes two loaves which comes in handy. We are heading to FL this weekend to see my in-laws and my father-in-law can’t have nuts so I made one loaf with nuts and one without. I can accommodate everyone. No one needs to go without banana nut bread or just banana bread. Yum!

Ingredients:

1 cup light brown sugar

1 cup white sugar

1 cup cooking oil

3 eggs

3 cups self rising flour, sifted (see note below to make self rising into all purpose flour)*

1 T vanilla

1 cup chopped nuts (pecans or walnuts)

5 large, very ripe bananas (mashed) - I upped it to 6 bananas and it was even better. I usually peel and freeze my bananas as they get very ripe and pull them out, thaw, drain, and it's ready for banana nut bread!

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour 2 loaf pans. Cream sugars, oil and eggs. Add flour 1 cup at a time and mix well. Add vanilla, bananas and nuts and mix well. Pour half of mixture in each loaf pan and bake for 1 hour or until brown. 

Cool for a bit, but be sure to enjoy a slice while it’s warm!  Banana nut bread is the absolute perfect treat!

Make a loaf or two so you can enjoy a treat now.

*If you are using all purpose flour like I always do, here’s all you need to do:

For each cup of flour add 1 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon of salt and viola, you’ve made your own self-rising flour!