February 22, 2009

Nana's Bananananana Bread

Ingredients
  • 5 Tablespoons of butter (softened)
  • 1/2 Cup Sugar
  • 1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
  • 1 Large egg
  • 2 egg whites
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 Cups mashed, very ripe bananas
  • 1 3/4Cups all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 Cup heavy cream
  • 1/3 cup choc chips
  1. Preheat oven to 350'F spray bottom of two bread pans with nonstick cooking spray
  2. Beat butter in large bowl with electric mixer set at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add granulated sugar and brown sugar; beat well. Add egg, egg whites, and vanilla; beat until blended. Add mashed banana, and beat on high speed for 30 seconds.
  3. Combine flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder in medium bowl. Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with cream, ending with flour mixture. Add choc chips and mix well.
  4. Pour batter evenly into prepped loaf pans (expect dough to rise 2-fold) Bake until browned and toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. About 1 hour.
  5. Cool bread in pan on wire rack. Slice and serve.
  6. Enjoy warm and cold, two totally different experiences. And give the second loaf away to someone who deserves it :)

2 comments:

  1. I deserve it! those boys in the shop get bread all the time. I went on here to post my banana bread recipe, and you beat me to it, so I'll post later. Thanks L-Train!

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  2. Woohoo! Recipes! Thank you for posting this. It sounds amazingly delicious. I like the chocolate chips. I can't wait to try it. I just started saving my ripe bananas in the freezer for just such an occasion. Mmmm.

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