When Life Gives Bad Bananas- Make Banana Bread

My resourceful friend/new roommate Mike turned nearly-bad bananas into a delicious loaf of banana bread last night. I would have tossed the bananas, but this loaf became breakfast and dinner! Very thrifty!

Banana Bread Recipe:

3-4 Smashed Ripe Bananas
1/3 Cup Melted Butter
2 Eggs, Beaten
1 Cup Sugar
1 Vanilla Bean (or 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract)
1 Teaspoon Baking soda
Pinch of Salt
1 1/2 Cups All Purpose Flour (we used unbleached)

Directions: Preheat oven to 350°F. Mix butter into mashed bananas, then mix in sugar, egg, and vanilla. Add the baking soda and salt. The flour goes in last. Pour the mixture into a buttered bread pan and bake for 1 hour. Remove and enjoy!

We didn't have a bread pan in the whole apartment (I never bake) so Mike made one out of aluminum foil. This resulted in a slightly lumpy loaf, but who cares if it was delicious? This is the best banana bread I've ever eaten, it's not overwhelmingly sweet or cloyingly banana-y.

Here's the bread fresh out of the aluminum foil bread pan. This bread was so quick and easy to make that I think I'll become addicted to baking my own bread. The results are much tastier and cheaper than the store bought counterparts.

Nah, we weren't playing tea party. Whenever the dining room table is cleared and we're actually eating from it, it's set like this. Warm fresh baked banana bread for supper, who needs anything else?

I had two slices for dinner and two slices for breakfast. The bread is filling and delicious, but watch out. Last night after happily devouring two slices I slipped into a banana-bread comma. You've been warned.

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