Holiday Banana Nut Bread
Thursday, February 03, 2005
INGREDIENTS:
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup mashed, very ripe, bananas
1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted (I used unsalted butter)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1&1/2 cups all-purposed flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts, toasted*
1/4 cup flaked coconut
1/4 cup raisins
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 325'F. Grease and flour a 8&1/2"x4&1/2"x3" loaf pan. Combine first 4 ingredients in a large bowl; stir well. Combine flour, baking soda, salt and sugar; mix well, then add to banana mixture, stirring until well blended. Stir in pecans or walnuts, coconut and raisins. Spoon batter into loaf pan. Bake for 1hr&10mins or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cover with aluminum foil the last 15mins of baking, if necessary, to prevent over browning. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10mins; remove from pan and let cool completely on the wire rack. Yields 1 loaf.
*You can toast the nuts in a small frying pan in the oven for about 5-8mins. When lightly toasted remove from oven, cool, then chop.
To double this recipe:
Double all the ingredients EXCEPT the flour. Use 2&1/2C of flour.
Labels: Breads and Pastries
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