Banana Bread

Name: Banana Bread
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 1 loaf
Ingredients: 1 cup all-purpose flour; 1 (3 1/2 ounce) box instant vanilla pudding (or your favourite ie butterscotch); 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt; 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon; 1 cup ripe banana, mashed; 2/3 cup vegetable oil; 2 eggs; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (if changing the pudding flavour, you can change the extract also); 1/2 cup brown sugar, lightly packed; 1/4 cup dried banana chips, break pieces; 3/4 cup toasted nuts, chopped (walnut, pecan etc , I set aside alittle of each to top bread)

Submitted by peachez

"More cake like than bread, a great, easy recipe. I had " borrowed " the banana chips from my parrot's treat bag and she was having a hissy fit watching me take them. Little did I know that after cooling and wrapping the bread before I left for the day, my son would come home, find it and had eaten the WHOLE top off before devouring almost half of what was left. Do I believe in karma ?,You bet!, I saw it myself..LOL. The bake time may increase depending on your oven temp correctness vs mine."

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Ready In:: 1hr 20mins
Ingredients:: 12
Yields:: 1 loaf

ingredients

Dry mix
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 (3 1/2 ounce) box instant vanilla pudding (or your favourite ie butterscotch)
¹⁄₂ teaspoon kosher salt
¹⁄₂ teaspoon baking soda
¹⁄₂ teaspoon cinnamon
Wet mix
1 cup ripe banana, mashed
²⁄₃ cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (if changing the pudding flavour, you can change the extract also)
¹⁄₂ cup brown sugar, lightly packed
¹⁄₄ cup dried banana chips, break pieces
³⁄₄ cup toasted nuts, chopped (walnut, pecan etc , I set aside alittle of each to top bread)

directions

Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Lightly butter a 1 loaf baking pan (I keep a baggie of my empty butter wrappers in the fridge for ease of buttering any pan) Combine well the dry mix in a large plastic bag.
With a hand mixer combine wet mix in a large mixing bowl, blending well.
Pour increments of dry mix into wet mix, hand stirring each addition.
Add banana chips and toasted nuts to mixture, stirring well.
Top with chip& nut mix you may have set aside.
Bake for 1 hour- 1 hour 15 minutes or when a toothpick inserted, comes out clean.
(loaf becomes dark golden) Cool on a wire rack.
Remove from pan when cool and wrap.
Hide loaf well.

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Reviews

This is a great banana bread recipe. I love the banana chip and nut topping!! I made it into muffins and they turned out perfect. Thanks!!

nkoprince08
I began using this recipe for banana muffins a couple of years ago, with the only alteration being vanilla yogurt in place of the oil. I sell muffins every day to support myself and my daughters. This particular one goes at about 100 a week!!!

McDiane