Description
This sweet banana bread with walnuts can be made for breakfast or dessert. Wonderful alone or warm with melted butter.
Ingredients
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- 3 medium ripe bananas
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9-inch loaf pan with nonstick spray.
- In a large bowl mash bananas with a fork. Add sugar, oil, eggs, and vanilla and mix until blended.
- In a separate bowl combine flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon.
- Add dry mixture to the wet and stir until just combined, do not overmix.
- Fold in walnuts and pour into prepared pan. Tap pan to let batter settle evenly.
- Bake for 1 hour 5 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. let cool on rack 10 minutes before removing from pan. Can be served warm or cool.
Notes
- Bread slices better when cool but tastes delicious still warm from the oven even if it crumbles!
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
- Category: bread
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 370
- Sugar: 24.8 g
- Sodium: 311.9 mg
- Fat: 20.3 g
- Carbohydrates: 45.6 g
- Protein: 6.3 g
- Cholesterol: 37.2 mg