Banana Bread

What do you do with wayyy overripe naners that you feel badly about throwing away?? Make banana bread!!

This is a recipe I found on the King Arthur Flour website. It's a great recipe, the only change that I made is that I double the cinnamon.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup butter (soft but not melted)
• 2/3 cup brown sugar: firmly packed
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon ( I used 2 tsp)
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas (I used 5 small/medium bananas)
• 1/4 cup honey
• 2 large eggs
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts 

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F

Combine the butter, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Beat until smooth and ingredients are combined. Don't go crazy mixing, make sure you scrape down the sides with a spatula so everything is mixed in good.

Mash the bananas...get your hands in there and mash em good :)

Add the smashed naners, honey and eggs to the creamed sugar mixture and beat until combined:

Next add in the flour and finely chopped walnuts, again mix until combined:

Spoon the batter into a greased loaf pan and let rest for about 10 minutes:

Bake for 45 minutes. Remove from the oven

It will be nice and brown...BUT not cooked...so loosely put tinfoil over the top so it can cook completely and not burn on top:

Bake an additional 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. There might be moist pieces clinging to the toothpick but they should be minimal.

Leave the bread in the pan for 10-15 to start to cool, then remove to a wire rack to completely cool:

Slice up and enjoy with some butter or cream cheese spread on top. Yum Yum