Blueberry Banana Bread

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, softened

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 large ripe bananas, mashed

1 1/2 cup flour

1 t. baking soda

1/2 t. salt

1 t. vanilla

1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)

1 1/2 cups fresh blueberries

Preparation 

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

2. Grease and flour 1 loaf pan.  Cream together butter and sugar; beat in eggs.  Add mashed bananas and mix.

3. Measure flour, reserving 2 tablespoons of flour to coat blueberries.

4. Stir baking soda and salt into flour, mixing well.  Fold into banana mixture; stir in vanilla.

5. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons flour over blueberries, then fold into batter.  Stir in chopped nuts.

6. Transfer batter to greased loaf pan.

7. Bake about 50 minutes (This is what the recipe said - it took me about 65 minutes).

Serve with butter or cream cheese on top!

**As someone who bakes a lot, I felt that the order of putting ingredients together was a bit weird (fold in flour instead of adding it while in the mixer? add vanilla AFTER stirring in flour?), but I decided to just follow the recipe and see what happened.  The bread is delicious so I guess it worked out well.**

**As you probably know, I do NOT like nuts in bakes goods, so you will not see nuts in my bread, but feel free to add them if that's what you like.**

*Recipe from www.cooks.com.

- Sarah