Farm Girl Banana Bread

My boys love banana bread. I introduced my one year old to banana bread recently, and he just giggled and smiled after his first bite. A few weeks prior to that,  I was carrying my one year old to his high chair on my left hip, while carrying a very ripe banana in my right hand. He leaned over before I could stop him, and took a big bite out of the banana, peel and all! When I attempted to retrieve it, he developed a sudden case of lockjaw, and  he refused to budge. He quickly swallowed what he thought was a treat. I laughed for at least the next ten minutes.


Banana Bread



Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups sugar

1/2 cup margarine or butter

2 eggs

3-4 bananas (ripe)

1/2 cup buttermilk or 1 cup milk with 1 tbsp lemon juice

1 tsp vanilla

2 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

Nuts (optional)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

2. Combine above ingredients and mix on high until only small bumps in batter remain. ( I never use buttermilk. I always use the milk and lemon juice combo as a substitute)

3. Pour in pre-greased loaf pan, pre-greased muffin pan, or muffin baking cups.

4. Bake at 350 until light brown color on top. Small loaves take approximately 45 minutes.

5. Enjoy!

I love making mini muffins too. I freeze them in Ziploc bags and pull them out for the boy's breakfasts.

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