Easy Peasy Banana Bread

             In the days BB (before breadmaker), I didn’t make any bread but this recipe.  It was quick, easy, required no kneading or rising, and was a great use for black bananas.  Considering I don’t eat bananas once they get a bruise or run past the slightly green/bright yellow stage, this recipe saved a lot of bananas from a garbage fate.

Ingredients:

3 – 4 ripe/black bananas

1/3 cup melted butter

1/3 – ¾ cup of sugar *

1 egg, beaten

 1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp baking soda

Pinch of salt

1 ½ cup all purpose flour

OPTIONAL: ¾ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

* My husband and I don’t like really sweet banana bread, so I cut the sugar down to 1/3 cup.  It tastes wonderful to us.  If you like more sugar, you can go up to ¾ cup.

Mash bananas with a fork in a large bowl.

Mix melted butter into bananas.

Add sugar, egg, and vanilla.  Mix.

Sprinkle in baking soda.  Mix.

Add in flour.  Mix.

Spray a loaf pan with non-stick cooking spray or butter it.

Add in bread mixture, bake for ~ 1 hour at 350°F.

It seriously doesn’t get easier than that, right?

I gave you some pictures below of the recent loaf I made with chocolate chips.  YUM!

You'll see that I have some spiral pasta dishes next to the bread.  That casserole is awesome and I'll post about it soon!  Also - obviously my mug screams "Go Phillies!"  I should crop these pictures better....