How to make the BEST banana bread

yummy banana bread

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

• 1 ¼ cups sugar
• ½ cup stick margarine or butter, softened
• 2 large eggs
• 1 ½ cups mashed banana (3-4 medium)
• ½ cup buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 ½ cups all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon sale
• 1 cup chopped nuts, if desired

1. Move oven rack to low position so that tops of the pans will be in center of oven. Heat oven to 350F. Grease bottoms of pans only of 2 loaf pans
2. Mix sugar and butter in large bowl. Stir in eggs until well blended. Add bananas, buttermilk and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt just until moistened. Stir in nuts. Pour into pans.
3. Bake 8-inch loaves about 1 hour, 9-inch loaves about 1 ¼ hours, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes in pans on wire rack. Loosen sides of loaves from pans; remove from pans and place top side up on wire rack. Cool completely before slicing.

Tips & Warnings

• buttermilk is the key to a crunchy crust and a moist center
• Insert toothpick to check for doneness. If the toothpick comes out clean, the bread is done cooking.
• make it gets cook all the way through.