Our banana bread recipe is a terrific Christmas dessert to serve your guests. Also, great in the morning toasted with some butter.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter for shortening
- 5 over-ripe bananas, mashed well
- 2 ½ cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- ¾ cup buttermilk
- 3 cups flour
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup chopped nuts
- 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Combine shortening, bananas and sugar.
- Slowly add eggs, one at a time and beat well.
- Sift baking soda, flour and salt together.
- Alternately add the other dry ingredients along with the buttermilk to the batter mixture.
- Add the vanilla and nuts and mix the banana bread recipe mixture well.
- Bake the mixture for 70 to 80 minutes at 325 degrees or until a toothpick comes out clean from the bread.
Notes
You will need two greased loaf pans for the entire banana bread recipe mixture. Do not fill to the top since the banana bread recipe will rise, you might like to give at least an inch space from the rim of the loaf pans.
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