Banana Bread

 I love bread, so I decided I would try my hand at making some. The perfect recipe presented itself on the back of a Mrs. Filbert's butter package and turns out it's pretty delicious. 

You will need:

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter

1-1/4 cups sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1/3 cup milk

2 medium ripe bananas, mashed

1/2 cup chopped walnuts, toasted

(I do not like nuts in my bread so I omitted that part, but then you can have banana nut bread)

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.

Also, grease a 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan and set it aside.

In a mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

Once it looks something like this, add the eggs and vanilla extract until blended.

This is a great opportunity to get the kids in the kitchen to help. Zoey loved helping me mix all the ingredients together.

Mix the flour, baking soda and salt together in a bowl. Alternately add the flour mixture and milk until blended, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. 

Mash the bananas. (Zoey had lots of fun with this part. We used a potato masher.)

Stir in the bananas (and walnuts if you use them).

Spread the batter into the prepared load pan.

Bake 1 hour and 20 minutes (until toothpick comes out clean when inserted into the center).

Let sit for about 10 minutes and then remove from pan. 

Makes 1 loaf.

Bon Appetit!

(See also on my cooking blog Savory Joy)