Banana Bread–Muzlu Kek

Christmas is just around the corner. It is baking season. Thanksgiving was mostly about pumpkins – pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread… Let’s not forget the BANANA BREAD. Around the year, I bake this often in many forms. My grandsons love it.  Leo likes the muffins, Murat likes it with chocolate chips, no-nuts, and Bodhi will eat it in any form. I often bake it and freeze it. This recipe like the pumpkin bread recipe is from my dear friend Kathy, who is a wonderful baker. More of her secret formulas will be revealed here in the future. I took her recipe and experimented with different kind of flours, adding nuts, raisins and chocolate chips, etc.  Play with it, you can’t go wrong.

Enjoy!

Ingredients:

• 2 cups mashed bananas
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup olive oil
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• ¼ tsp. salt
• ½ cup walnuts (optional)
• 2 table spoons of sliced almonds for garnish (optional)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large bowl, combine bananas, eggs, oil, and vanilla and mix well with a hand mixer.
3. Add flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt to banana mixture. Mix well until smooth.
4. Add walnuts and mix them in with a spoon
5. Pour batter into greased 9×5-inch pan.
6. Sprinkle sliced almonds on top for garnish (optional)
7. Bake at 350 degrees for about 50 minutes or until done. When a toothpick inserted into the bread comes out clean, it is ready.

Variations:

• You may want to use 2 round (9 inch) oven safe dish if you want to serve it like a cake.
• I often use one 9 inch round dish and one 9×5 inch bread pan. The bread loaf yields smaller slices this way.
• You can make cupcakes with this batter as well.
• You can use 1 cup of regular flour and 1 cup of whole wheat or almond flour.
• Pecans can be used instead of walnuts.

Afiyet Olsun!

Bon Appetit!

Ingredients

Mix bananas sugar oil eggs and vanilla

Add flour, baking powder and salt

Mix well

Add walnuts

Fresh out of the oven

Banana Bread