Brown Bananas? Have no fear!

Bannana Bread
Originally uploaded by Dewdropdeb.

Well, I always thought I couldn't mess with baking ingredients, but I proved myself wrong. I had four suspicious looking brown bananas in the fruit bowl that my husband was about to throw away when I though, hey, I haven't made banana bread in ages, why not make some? I usually use a wonderful recipe called Kona Inn Banana Bread from The Bakers Dozen Cookbook, a great resource for baking. But the recipe calls for shortening and I'm not sure I get the right stuff here in Ireland. Last time I bought something that looked like shortening and the bread was awful, all greasy. AND I didn't have any in the house, so I decided to experiment. I looked at dozens of different recipes online and came up with my own variation, which turned out light and delicious! Here goes!

• 4 mashed bananas - very ripe
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 1 tsp good vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup melted butter
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp mixed spice
• good grating of nutmeg
• 2 tsp baking soda
  

Mix sugar and bananas in large bowl. Add vanilla, eggs, butter and spices. Slowly add flour and baking soda until mixed but not over-mixed (as in lumpy and bits of floury sections ok!!!)

Pour into a greased loaf pan. Bake at 190C/375F for about 45 minutes. Top should be crispy and brown and a stick inserted in the middle should come out clean. Pretty simple... you probably have all the ingredients on hand and you would be throwing the bananas away otherwise! Serve with butter! MMM-MMM!


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