Sour Cream Banana Nut Bread

This is the perfect cure for buying too many bananas!  In our house, I usually only buy a few bananas at a time, as our family rarely eats a whole "bunch" of them; but when I sent my sweet husband to the store with a grocery list, he came back with practically the whole tree! When bananas are really ripe and sweet, there are few things better to do with them than this. Banana nut bread is a great snack, with a great balance of nutrition.  This recipe will make 1 large loaf, but these little individual loaves are super cute, and just the right size for a bake sale, teacher gifts, neighbor thank you gifts, a quick breakfast, etc.

This recipe came from one of my favorite cookbooks, Celebrations on the Bayou, given to me some 20 years ago by a dear friend.  I've been making this ever since then... and when my oldest child was a toddler, it was sometimes the only thing I could get him to eat.  Today, I looked at my youngest (3 years old) and asked if she wanted to make banana nut bread.  Almost instantaneously, that big voice (almost 15 years old now) came from another part of the house... "Yes!!"  Ha!  The allure of this super easy recipe apparently still works like a charm!


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Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup mashed bananas (about 3 bananas)
• 1/2 cup sour cream (I use the "light" version)
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans

Step-by-step

Cream together the butter and sugar.

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter

Cream together well.

Add eggs and mix well.

2 eggs

Mix well.

Sift together:  flour, soda, and salt.

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 1/2 cups flour

Sift.

Get the last bits out! Ha Ha!

Combine the flour mixture with the butter mixture.

Combine.

Add the bananas, sour cream, and vanilla and mix well.

3 large bananas - peeled, of course, and mashed.

1/2 cup light sour cream

1 tsp vanilla

Add the chopped nuts.

1/2 cup chopped pecans

Pour the batter into a greased 9x5x3 loaf pan or several smaller loaf pans (or muffin tins).

Bake in 350 degree oven for 1 hour for 1 loaf, or around 20 minutes for muffins or small loaves.

Mmmmm......

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Written Directions: 
Cream together the butter and sugar.  Add eggs and mix well.  Sift together:  flour, soda, and salt.  Combine the flour mixture with the butter mixture. Add the bananas, sour cream, and vanilla and mix well.  Add the chopped nuts. Pour the batter into a greased 9x5x3 loaf pan or several smaller loaf pans (or muffin tins). Bake in 350 degree oven for 1 hour for 1 loaf, or around 20 minutes for muffins or small loaves.

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