I have made dozens of different banana bread recipes. This is one of the best because of a secret ingredient. Well, it was a secret but it is not anymore (see ingredients).
Ingredients
1/3 cup butter
2/3 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup mashed banana
1/4 cup buttermilk
1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup bran
1/2 cup grape nuts (the secret ingredient)
3/4 cup finely cut dried apricots
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Directions
Cream butter and sugar. And eggs and beat well. Mix bananas, milk, and vanilla. Mix dry ingredients, fruit and nuts together; add alternately with banana mixture to the creamed butter mixture, sugar and eggs. Pour into a greased 9 x 5 loaf pan. Bake at 350 for 1 hour or until done; test with toothpick.
Enjoy!
The secret ingredient makes all the difference!!!
Based on a recipe from Cooking with Gourmet Grains from Stone Buhr. A GREAT cookbook available online.
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