Banana Pudding Bread

• 12 cup butter, softened
• 34 cup sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 12 teaspoon salt
• 30 vanilla wafers, finely crushed
• 1 cup mashed ripe banana
• 12 cup milk
• 1 cup chopped walnuts, divided

1. Beat butter in mixer at medium speed till creamy; gradually add sugar, beating well.
2. Add eggs, one at a time; beating after each one.
3. Combine flour, baking powder, salt, and vanilla wafers; add to creamed mixture alternately with banana and milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
4. Mix at low speed after each addition.
5. Stir in 3/4 cup walnuts.
6. Spoon batter into a greased and floured loaf pan.
7. Sprinkle with remaining walnuts.
8. Bake at 350 degrees for 55 minutes- 1 hour or till a toothpick comes out clean- loosely covering with foil after 45 minutes.
9. Let cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes; remove from pan and let cool completely on rack.

butter, sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder, salt, vanilla wafers, mashed ripe banana, milk, walnuts

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/banana-pudding-bread-279368 (may not work)