Banana Bread

• 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)

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. 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.
3. With a hand mixer combine wet mix in a large mixing bowl, blending well.
4. Pour increments of dry mix into wet mix, hand stirring each addition.
5. Add banana chips and toasted nuts to mixture, stirring well.
6. Top with chip& nut mix you may have set aside.
7. Bake for 1 hour- 1 hour 15 minutes or when a toothpick inserted, comes out clean.
8. (loaf becomes dark golden) Cool on a wire rack.
9. Remove from pan when cool and wrap.
10. Hide loaf well.

mix, flour, vanilla pudding, kosher salt, baking soda, cinnamon, wet mix, banana, vegetable oil, eggs, vanilla, brown sugar, banana chips, nuts

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/banana-bread-48961 (may not work)