Chronicles of The Buxom Baker: It's Bananas!

I have good intentions. I really do! I buy fruit and tell myself I'm going to eat it. And I usually do. But five bananas is just too many. A banana for breakfast five days in a row gets old. Fast. And I don't like to eat the same thing two days in a row, let alone five. This bunch of bananas lasted two days. And then they turned brown. Yuck.

So when life gives you brown bananas.......make banana bread!

Banana Walnut Bread

The Ingredients:

½ Cup of White Sugar

½ Cup of Brown Sugar

½ Cup of Butter, Melted

3 Very Ripe Bananas, Mashed

1 Teaspoon of Pure Vanilla Extract

2 Eggs, Slightly Beaten

2 Cups of All Purpose Flour

1 Teaspoon of Cinnamon

1 Teaspoon of Baking Soda

½ Teaspoon of Salt

½ Cup of Chopped Walnuts

The Process:

Preheat your oven to 350℉.

Pick a pan, any pan. A loaf pan? Sure. But I was feeling extra creative this morning so I grabbed my bundt pan.

Grease and flour your pan of choice.

Grab a small frying pan and place on the stove over low heat.

Add your chopped walnuts and give them a light toast.

Be sure to keep an eye on them because nuts will burn VERY easily!

Nobody likes burnt nuts.

Nobody.

Once they are lightly toasted, turn off the heat and set them aside for later.

Take out your totally awesome set of retro Pyrex mixing bowls. Or whatever mixing bowls you happen to have.

Take a small bowl and add your bananas. Grab a fork and mash the bananas to smithereens.

Now grab the biggest bowl and add the white sugar,

and the brown sugar,

and the melted butter.

Whisk until combined.

Crack the eggs into another small bowl.

Add the vanilla and gently beat them together.

Add the slightly beaten eggs and vanilla to the butter/sugar mixture.

Whisk until combined.

Add the mashed bananas. Keep on whiskin’.

Now grab a medium sized mixing bowl and add your flour,

and cinnamon,

and the baking soda and salt.

Give it a stir with a fork until it is all mixed up.

Get rid of the whisk and grab a rubber spatula.

Gently fold the dry ingredients into the banana mixture.

Now add your toasted walnuts and fold, fold, fold until they are evenly distributed.

Pour into your (greased and floured) pan of choice.

Spread evenly and pop it into the oven.

Bake for about 1 hour (depending on your pan color and size, this will vary a little) or until a cake tester comes out clean.

In the meantime, go outside and take picture of your very strange excuse for a dog.

Then pat him on the head, tell him to go chew his bone and keep his black furry behind out of your kitchen.

Now go back inside because your timer is going off and you don't want to burn your bread!

After you pull the pan out of the oven. Grab a wire cooling rack. Place it on top (well, technically the bottom) of your pan and invert the pan onto the cooling rack.