Banana Nut Bread

It's a misty sort of morning in Evington, and as I will not be venturing out today (go away, cicadas!), I think today will be catch-up day, in which I will finish all these posts I've started. 

To get the ball rolling, I have two recipes for banana bread.  This one is for banana nut bread, and the other is for a strawberry banana bread.  They both use the same basic recipe, but I will do a separate post for each one.

I found this recipe a few years ago to make for my husband.  Banana bread is one of the few sweet treats he likes, so naturally I had to try it.

To make the banana nut variation, you will need:

3 over-ripe bananas
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 egg
1/2 cup sugar (I used turbinado)
1-1/2 cup flour (I used 1 cup all-purpose and 1/2 cup whole wheat)
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup chopped walnuts (pecans might be good too)

Preheat your oven to 350F/180C.

Peel your bananas and place in a large mixing bowl with the melted butter.

Mash your bananas with the butter, using a potato masher.  Add the egg...

... and mash that together.

Add your flours, baking soda, sugar, and salt.

Mix and add the chopped the chopped nuts.

Fold in the nuts and scoop batter into a greased 9"x5" loaf pan or 3 greased mini loaf pans.

Bake in the preheated oven for 55-60 minutes for the 9x5 pan or about 50 minutes for the mini-loaf pans.  When done, turn out onto a cooling rack to cool.

Stay tuned for the strawberry variation!