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It’s Bananas 🍌

Last year, I was visiting my sister and her family and helping them out during a difficult pregnancy. I helped by picking the kids up from school and driving them around to their various activities, and making dinners for them. They had a lot of ripe bananas so my niece and I decided to make banana bread together. I was a little intimidated, but I used the following family recipe and everything turned out great! I can bake after all!

Fast forward to this year, and we had a similar situation, 4 ripe bananas going bad. I don’t have a bread loaf pan, but I followed the same recipe and made banana muffins instead. (I just did this by shortening the baking time.)

Banana Nut Bread or Muffins

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What you need:

10 T. butter
1 c. mashed ripe bananas (2 large bananas)
½ c. sour cream
2 eggs
1 ½ tsp. vanilla
2 c. flour
¾ c. plus 2 T. sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
¾ tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. salt
1 c. chopped walnuts (optional)
1 c. chocolate chips (optional)

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350°F degrees. Lightly grease a loaf pan or muffin tin with spray.
Puree the bananas, sour cream, eggs and vanilla in a food processor (or blender).
Mix flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a large bowl.
Add the softened butter and mix on medium-low speed until blended.
Add the banana mixture in 3 batches and mix on medium speed between each batch.
Fold in the nuts and chocolate chips.
Pour into pan or fill muffin cups about ⅔ full.
For bread, bake until lightly browned and bread bounces back to the touch, about 1 hour 10 minutes. For muffins, bake for 20 – 25 minutes, watching closely to not burn.
Remove from the oven and cool for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Estimated Time:

2 hours

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If your bananas are going bad, turn it into something good and try making banana bread or muffins instead. Let us know if you tried this recipe and what you think about it. We’d love to hear from you. Please share your feedback in the comments below.