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A Really Good Little Banana Bread

2013 August 8
by WWGD

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I am obsessed with making loaves lately. Nothing fills my heart and soul like feeding my kids something warm and yum and homemade for breakfast. Especially when I have a bunch of over-ripe brown bananas taking up space on my counter.

This banana bread was easy to pull together on a late Wednesday evening and made for a very happy Thursday morning:

Ingredients

Original recipe makes 1 9×5-inch loaf

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup butter (room temperature)

1/8 cup nonfat plain yogurt (I used Greek)

3/4 cup brown sugar

2 eggs, beaten (room temperature)

2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas (I used four bananas, no idea how many cups it worked out to be)

I also added 1/2 cup of shredded coconut, a bunch of chocolate chips and a tablespoon of chia seeds (shhh, don’t tell my kids)

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9×5-inch loaf pan.

Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. Beat butter, yogurt, and brown sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color. Add room-temperature eggs one at a time, allowing each egg to blend into butter mixture before adding the next. Stir in mashed bananas until well blended. Pour banana mixture to flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Transfer batter into prepared loaf pan.

Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into center of loaf comes out clean, 60 to 65 minutes (mine took closer to 50 minutes, so keep an eye on it). Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto wire rack to cool completely.

Enjoy!

*original recipe source here*

4 Responses
  1. August 8, 2013

    This looks great! We made a really yummy banana walnut bread tonight. Bananas are such a wonderful thing.

    The Rambling Fangirl

  2. Bonnie permalink
    August 18, 2013

    I just made this bread. Made my house smell amazing. And tastes fantastic. Thanks!

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