Perfect Banana Bread
- 1 cup pecan halves
- 2 12 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 14 teaspoons baking powder
- 34 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon (I use a little more)
- 34 teaspoon salt
- 18 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 pinch clove
- 1 12 cups very ripe bananas, mashed
- 14 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (please use pure)
- 12 cup butter (please use the real thing)
- 34 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
- 12 cup granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs, room temperature
- Heat oven to 350F.
- Grease and flour a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
- Pulse pecans in food processor until coarsely chopped.
- (can do by hand).
- Whisk together flour, baking powder,baking soda, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg and cloves in a medium bowl.
- Combine bananas, buttermilk and vanilla in another bowl.
- Beat butter and sugars in a large mixer bowl at medium-high speed until well combined, about 3 minutes.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating 30 seconds with each addition.
- Reduce speed, and beat in half of the flour mixture, just until combined.
- Repeat with remaining flour and banana mixtures.
- Fold in nuts.
- Scrape batter evenly into the prepared pan.
- Bake 70 to 72 minutes, until a wooden toothpick inserted into the center comes out almost clean.
- Cool 5 minutes.
- Loosen sides of pan; unmold onto a wire rack.
- Cool completely.
pecan halves, flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, clove, very ripe bananas, buttermilk, vanilla, butter, brown sugar, sugar, eggs
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/perfect-banana-bread-277614 (may not work)