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Banana Walnut Bread

Course: Breakfast
Servings: 1 Loaf
Author: Priyanka

Ingredients

  • 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 stick unsalted butter at room temp
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 3 ripe bananas smashed
  • ½ cup chopped walnuts
  • 1 loaf pan or 9’ x 5’ x 3’ pan

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven at 350°F.
  • Sift flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl and set it aside.
  • In another bowl, cream together butter and sugar till it turns light creamy.
  • Combine 1 egg at a time and mix.
  • Add vanilla extract and mashed bananas and mix. At this point the batter will look curdled.
  • Using a spatula mix dry ingredients to wet until nicely mixed. DO NOT OVERMIX.
  • Add chopped walnuts to the batter and give it a final mix.
  • Pour it in a greased 9’ x 5’ x 3’ pan or a loaf pan and bake it at 350°F for 55 mins or till the inserted toothpick comes out clean.
  • Let it completely cool on a cooling rack before slicing it into half inch slices.

Notes

You can store the slices in an air-tight container at room temperature for a week.