Whole Wheat Banana Bread

I had 2 very ripe almost black bananas on my counter. Neither was it tempting to eat those nor I had the heart to trash them. That is when I thought of baking them into banana bread. I looked for lot of recipes and finally made the needed adjustments and came up with the recipe below. It is a perfect solution if you are faced with a dilemma with over ripe bananas.

Banana Bread is almost cake like and you can enjoy it for breakfast or snack any time of the day. I used whole wheat to make it healthier. I have added a little bit of all purpose flour to get a better texture but you can use whole wheat flour completely to make it more healthy. I like it very mildly sweet with lot of banana flavor in it. The recipe goes below.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1/3 cup all purpose flour
• 2- 3 ripe bananas mashed(riper the better)
• 1/3 cup sugar (1/4 cup if you are using 3 bananas)
• 1 stick- 1/2 cup butter softened
• 2 eggs beaten lightly
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon (optional)

Directions:

• Combine flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder and cinnamon in a bowl sing a fork or whisk.
• In another bowl cream softened butter, add eggs, mashed bananas and sugar and mix well.
• Mix dry and wet ingredients together. Mix it really well so that there are no lumps.
• Fold in chopped walnuts.
• Pour in a greased baking pan. You can use an 8" cake pan, loaf pan or a bundt pan.
• Put it in a preheated oven at 350 degrees F. Bake for around 30 minutes till a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• Cool for 15 minutes in the pan and then turn it over on wire rack. Let it cool completely and enjoy.