I have been baking a lot lately. Need to get it out of my system before it is too hot in my apartment to do anything but sit and sweat! One of my favorites is Banana bread! I bake several at a time and freeze them so I can enjoy them later too. I use disposable (reusable) aluminum mini loaf pans. They clean up easily and can be reused multiple times. I have had mine a couple of years now, even though I aspire to buying a set of non-disposable pans. That being said, I have had many requests for my recipe, so here it is. Enjoy!
Ingredients:
3-4 ripe bananas (approx. 1 1/2 cups) (wait until the peel is black)
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup canola oil (vegetable oil works too)
2 Lg Eggs
2 tsp vanilla (i never measure the vanilla so this is also just approximate)
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 cups flour
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease bread pan(s). I use crisco canola oil non-stick spray.
Mash bananas and add sugar, oil, vanilla and eggs. Add baking soda, salt and baking powder. Fold in flour. Pour into pan and bake 55 to 60 minutes for large loaf and 25 to 30 minutes for mini loaves. Each batch makes 4 mini loaves. Bread is done when it is "toothpick" clean. Cool for 10 minutes and then remove from pan(s). Place on cooling rack to completely cool. Wrap in saran wrap and put in fridge. I will put these into a freezer bag to go into my freezer.
