Cindys Banana Bread Recipes

CINDY'S BANANA BREAD , REVISED

Steps:

• Place all dry ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
• Put yogurt,eggs, shortening, bananas, apricots, & vanilla in vitamix and pulse until blended and apricots chopped. Alternately, you can cream all ingredients, except apricots together in a mixer. Chop the apricots and add with the nuts.
• Fold creamed mixture into flour mixture. Stirring just until blended.
• Stir in nuts and chopped apricots.
• Pour into a greased and lightly floured loaf pan. (Hint: Cut a strip of parchment paper the width of the loaf pan, making sure ends extend over sides of pan. Grease & flour pan, then pour batter in. Makes it real easy to remove from pan after baking.)
• Bake in 350 degree oven for approx. 1 hr. 25 minutes or until toothpick stuck in center of loaf comes out clean.
• Remove from pan & cool on wire rack until completely cooled before wrapping.

CINDY'S BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Cream sugar & butter together.
• Add eggs, one at a time, and beat well after each addition.
• Sift dry ingredients together 3 times.
• Alternately stir in flour & bananas, ending with flour. DO NOT OVERSTIR! Overstirring will make your bread tough.
• Stir in nuts.
• Pour into a greased and lightly floured loaf pan. Top batter with whole walnut halves if desired.
• Bake in 350 degree oven 55-65 mins. or until a toothpick comes out with only a few crumbs.

BANANA BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.