Erin's Famous Banana Bread

One of our family's all time favorite quick bread recipes is Banana Bread! Bananas in the winter time are hard to come by, but we found that you can freeze bananas instead of throwing them away. We have also found other ingredients to give variety to the Banana Bread.

Preserving bananas all year long:
~ Instead of throwing away your ripe bananas, take a freezer bag and place whole bananas unpeeled in freezer bag. Place in freezer unthaw as needed.

Ingredients:
~ 1 cup sugar
~ 2 medium bananas mashed
~ 1/2 cup butter softened
~ 1/4 cup milk
~ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
~ 2 eggs
~ 2 cups flour
~ 1 teaspoon baking soda
~ 1/2 teaspoon salt
~ Optional ingredients: 1/2 cup crushed pineapple drained, 1/2 cup chopped nuts, 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips ( in this picture we have used pineapple which is our favorite)
~ Topping: brown sugar and cinnamon sprinkled on top of batter

Directions:
~ heat oven to 350 F
~ grease a 9x5 or 8x4 loaf pan
~ In large bowl blend first 6 ingredients
~ beat 1 min. at medium speed
~ stir in dry ingredients until moistened
~ pour batter into prepared pan
~ bake for 50-60 min. or until toothpick inserted comes out clean
~ cool 5 min. and remove from pan
~ makes 1 loaf