Recipe – Super Simple Banana Bread

I have been searching and searching for an easy banana bread recipe that I can throw together when I have a pile of overripe bananas sitting on the kitchen counter.

Banana bread recipes usually call for buttermilk (which I don’t typically have on hand) and I am not always interested in lifting the mixer out of the bottom cabinet, so when I found this sans-buttermilk/sans-mixer recipe from Simply Recipes, I was THRILLED.

Then the hubs ate some and he was thrilled and I was thrilled that he was thrilled and so this banana bread caused a whole lot of thrilling.

Which makes it a recipe I will be using again and again!

Super Simple Banana Bread

Ingredients –

• 2-3 very ripe bananas, peeled
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp baking soda
• Pinch of salt
• 1 1/2 cups flour

Directions –

1. In a mixing bowl, mash the bananas with a fork until smooth (I let Happy Buddy do this and he had a blast!).
2. Add the melted butter to the bananas and stir.
3. Add the baking soda and salt; stir.
4. Add the sugar, beaten egg, and vanilla; stir.
5. Mix in the flour.
6. Pour batter into a buttered 4×8-inch loaf pan.
7. Bake for 1 hour or 1 hour and 10 minutes at 350 degrees (check the bread after 50 minutes).
8. Cool on a rack.

So easy!  Enjoy!

Happy Banana Bread-ing! 🙂