Banana Bread

I eat a banana a day and sometimes I'll have some left over bananas at the end of the week that don't get eaten and turn brown in the bowl. Do not throw these away! Take the peel off (it's easier to do this now than later) and put it in a Ziploc bag and into the freezer. When you have built up enough, make some banana bread!

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 t. baking soda

1/4 t. salt

1/2 cup butter, softened

3/4 cup brown sugar

2 eggs, beaten

2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas (about 5 medium-sized bananas) (if you're bananas are in the freezer, put them in the fridge the night before you want to make the bread)

Preparation

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.

2. 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.

3. Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.

I like to eat banana bread heated with cream cheese on top. If you've never tried it that way, don't scoff, it's delicious.

-Sarah