Recipe: Banana Bread ++++

Banana Bread

Ingredients:

3 Ripe Bananas

Note:  I used 奶蕉 in this recipe.  Any banana will be just fine.

1/2 cup Sugar or substitute with honey

1/2 cup Soft Butter

2 Room Temperature Eggs

1/4 tsp Vanilla

1 Tbsp Milk

1 Tbsp Honey

Dry ingredients:

2 cups All-purpose Flour

1 tsp Salt

1 tsp Baking powder

1 tsp Baking soda

1 cup chopped walnuts

Methods:

1.  Preheat oven at 325F

2.  In a larger mixing bowl, sift and mix all dry ingredients together

3.  In a small mixing bowl, cut banana into pieces and use a potato masher to break them apart into a rough paste; set aside

4.  In a medium mixing bowl, cut soft butter into small pieces and mix well with 1/2 cup of sugar with a spatula or by hand

5.  Combine banana paste with butter sugar mixture

6.  Add one room temperature egg into the bowl and mix well

7.  Add 1/4 tsp of vanilla, 1 Tbsp of milk and 1 Tbsp of honey into mixture and mix well

8.  Add the second room temperature egg in and mix well again

9.  Combine 1/3 of the dry ingredients into wet ingredients and mix

10. Add chopped walnut into the mixing bowl

11. Add another 1/3 until all ingredients are mixed together until all dry ingredients are incorporated

12. This will not be a smooth mixture

13. Lightly oil a 4x9 baking pan

14. Stir mixture before adding it into baking pan slowly and spread to avoid air pocket and uneven spread

15. Bake at 325F for 1 hour and 15 minutes until golden brown or until the clean toothpick comes out from the bread

16. Remove from oven and let it sit for 20 minutes to cool

17. Have a cookie rack standing by

18. Use a knife to loosen the sides of the bread from the baking pan and let it cool further on the rack

19. Cut the bread and serve