Banana Bread

Banana Bread

Somethings very good and comforting about quick bread, and its really the only type of baking I tend to enjoy. Getting a quick bread to be right it like trying to re create your mothers lasagna, it will just never be as good...

But this time I came close.

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
• 1/4 cup butter melted
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 3 mashed ripe bananas
• 1/3 cup water
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 2/3 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder

Preheat your oven to 325ºF. Spray 5 smooth, dark coated mini bundt pans with nonstick cooking spray for baking. Alternately you can go old school with grease and flour. You can also do this in loaf pans, or as a full sized bundt just be sure its got a dark coating.

In a Kitchen Aid mixer or large bowl mash the bananas (use the paddle attachment). Mix the sugars and butter in until the mix is smooth but some chunky banana is OK. Next add eggs, oil and water beat that about for 30 seconds. Add in remaining ingredients mixing until just until moistened. You you like them throw in a handful of nuts right at the end.

Pour the batter into your pans. Fill them about half way this bread has a nice loft to it. Bake until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Thats about 30 minutes for mini bundts or mini loaves and 50 minutes for a full sized bundt. Loaf pans will be about 40.

Let the bread sit in the pan for 5 minutes before you use a knife to loosen sides of loaf from pan, invert it onto rack or a cake plate. Everyone else would say and allow to cool completely before slicing. Don't do it! Get the peanut butter out of the cupboard and eat that baby while its still warm. Just be sure to save some for tomorrow, its even taster once the flavors spend some good quality time together.

Jo etvagyat!