Blue Ribbon Banana Nut Bread Recipes

BLUE RIBBON BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• In a large mixing bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Set aside.
• In a second mixing bowl, whisk together butter, brown sugar, eggs, and sour cream. Stir in mashed bananas.
• Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well. Stir in toasted nuts, if using.
• Pour batter into well-greased 9x5-inch loaf pan. Bake for 55 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean.
• Cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then remove loaf from pan and allow to finish cooling on a wire rack.

MARY'S BLUE RIBBON BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Sift dry ingredients together.
• 2. In a large bowl cream butter and sugar well.
• 3. Add eggs and beat well until light and fluffy.
• 4. Add vanilla.
• 5. Mix banana pulp with sour cream.
• 6. Add pulp alternately with dry ingredients to butter, sugar, and eggs mixture on slow speed.
• 7. Scrape sides as needed.
• 8. DO NOT OVER BEAT. Beat only until combined. I then stir with a wooden spoon to make sure it is all combined.
• 9. Grease and flour a loaf pan, 9X5X3. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes.
• 10. Test with a cake tester. Do not test in the crack. Test off to the side. It should come out clean, but be careful not to over bake. You want a loaf of moist banana bread.

YUMMY BANANA NUT BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Combine softened cream cheese, sugar, and butter, mixing until well blended.
• 2. Blend in banana and eggs.
• 3. Add combined remaining ingredients mixing until moistened.
• 4. Pour into a greased and floured 9x5-inch loaf pan.
• 5. Bake at 350 degrees, for 1 hour and 10 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted near the center of the bread comes out clean.
• 6. Cool 5 minutes; remove from pan. Glaze if desired when the bread is cooled. NOTE: I just make a glaze with powdered sugar, a little milk, and either vanilla or lemon extract. It's GREAT without glaze too. I personally like it best spreading... you guessed it, cream cheese on each slice. Yum!!