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Home » Best Ever Banana Bread

Best Ever Banana Bread

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Adapted from Gold Medal All-Purpose Flour

Ingredients:

1 ¼ cup sugar
½ cup sweet butter
2 eggs
1 ½ cups mashed very ripe bananas - (3-4 medium)
½ cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 ½ cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup chopped nuts

Preheat oven 350 degrees:

Butter bottoms of 2 (8x8 inch) pans.

In a large bowl, mix sugar and butter. Add eggs, bananas, buttermilk and vanilla: beat with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Stir in flour, baking soda and nuts just until moistened. Pour batter into pans.

Bake 1 hour or until toothpick test inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool before icing.

Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting

Adapted from McCormick - Pure Vanilla Extract

Ingredients:

1 package (8 oz.) softened cream cheese
4 tablespoons softened sweet butter
2 tablespoons sour cream
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 box Confectioners' Sugar

Beat cream cheese, butter, sour cream and vanilla in a large bowl until light and fluffy.
Gradually beat in 1 box confectioners' sugar on medium speed until smooth.

This banana bread is a perfect compliment to a cup of tea!

Enjoy!

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  2. nisha says

    January 12, 2010 at 2:59 am

    First time here. Loved reading your recipes. Bookmarking this one to try.

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  3. vickie says

    January 06, 2010 at 5:24 pm

    I gotta try this! I bookmarked your Foodista profile to check out more later 😉

    Reply
  4. d'kitchen says

    December 30, 2009 at 10:30 pm

    oh my..how I wish I can banana bread soon....starbucks banana bread is too expensive...lol!

    thanks for sharing the recipe Cathy!

    Reply
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