Do you ever find yourself with bananas that are just a little too brown for you and your family to enjoy eating? Instead of throwing them out, why not turn them into something delicious? I am going to share with you everything you need to make my gra...
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Ingredients
Tools
Recipe
Fun additions, cooking with your heart.
Ingredients
Grandma's Banana Bread recipe, doesn't require many ingredients. It is likely you have most of these in your kitchen. I enjoy shopping at Kroger, and these are the brands of the products I enjoy, feel free to use whatever brands you have on hand or c...
1 cup of sugar, to add just enough sweatness
Sugar
2 cups all purpose flour, you need flour because well bread!
All Purpose Flour
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, I love cooking with vanilla it always adds something special to baked foods
Pure Vanilla Extract
½ teaspoon of salt, salt is a staple for baking
Table Salt
½ teaspoon baking soda, baking soda is another very common item for baking
Baking Soda
1 stick of room temperature butter, make sure your butter is room temperature if it isn't it will not mix well
Butter Sticks
2 eggs, everyone typically has some eggs in their kitchen. You will only need 2.
Eggs
3 bananas, It is ideal to have brown bananas. If you are just really wanting to make banana bread you can have fresh bananas and make sure you squeeze them on the outside to make the center softer and more squishy.
Banana
1
Pam is my favorite cooking spray, you can use whatever you normally use for spraying pans.
Pam Original Cooking Spray
Tools
These are some of the tools that I use for multiple activities in the kitchen, and I always use them when I am making banana bread!
This is the loaf pan I love to use, you can of course use a disposable one, or whichever one you have in your kitchen.
5"x9" Nonstick l Loaf Pan
Any mixing bowl will do, I prefer these Pyrex mixing bowls, it's what I have in my kitchen already!
Mixing Bowl
You can use whatever measuring cups and spoons you would like. I bought mine at Target years ago!!
Measuring Cups & Measuring Spoons
Recipe
Here is the recipe I have published for Grandma's Banana Bread. Let me know what variations you try!
Grandma's Banana Bread
Fun additions, cooking with your heart.
These are some additions we have added to experiment with, of course it is all with love and fun.
We have added about 1 cup of trail mix, which gave it a exciting fruity/nutty taste. We did find that chopping/crushing the nuts yielded a better texture
Cranberry Cashew Trail Mix
Adding about 1 cup of chopped/crushed walnuts gave us the typical banana nut bread taste, and it was AMAZING!!
Walnut Pieces
We haven't tried adding peanut butter, but it has been discussed. I am excited to try it in the future. I would suggest probably reducing to 2 bananas instead of 1 and adding about ½ cup of peanut butter melted.
