Silver Palate Banana Bread Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease 9X5X3" pan.
• Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time and beat well after each addition.
• In a separate bowl, sift all purpose flour, baking soda, salt, whole wheat flour. Add to creamed mixture. Mix well.
• Fold in bananas, vanilla and 1/2 cup walnuts.
• Pour mixture into pan. Sprinkle 3 T. walnuts evenly on top of batter in pan.
• Bake 50-60 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean from center. Cool for 10 minutes in the pan. Remove to cool on a rack remaining time.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 9x5" loaf pan with butter and dust with flour, tapping out any excess.
• Combine banana, sour cream, and vanilla in a medium bowl. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.
• Using an electric mixer, beat butter and brown sugar on medium speed in another large bowl until light and fluffy, about 3 1/2 minutes. Add eggs one at a time and beat on medium speed until fully combined, about 1 minute each. Add banana mixture and beat until just combined, about 30 seconds. Add dry ingredients in 2 batches, beating on low after each addition and scraping down sides of bowl if necessary, until fully incorporated, about 20 seconds per batch. Fold in walnuts. Transfer batter to prepared pan and smooth top with a spatula.
• Bake, rotating halfway through, until batter is set, top is dark golden brown and starting to crack, sides are starting to pull away from pan, and a tester inserted into center of bread comes out clean, 60-65 minutes. Cool in pan on a wire rack at least 15 minutes. Run a butter knife around perimeter of pan to loosen loaf, then tap pan gently on its side until loaf releases. Transfer to a cutting board or plate and let cool completely before slicing.

Steps:

• Remove odd pots and pans from oven.
• Preheat oven to 350º / 180º.
• Cream together butter and sugar.
• Add eggs and crushed bananas.
• Combine well.
• Sift together flour, soda and salt. Add to creamed mixture. Add vanilla.
• Mix just until combined. Do not overmix.
• Pour into greased and floured loaf pan.
• Bake at 350º / 180º for 55 minutes.
• Keeps well, refrigerated.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350. Grease 9 x 5 x 3 inch loaf pan. (I used a bundt pan) 2. Mix flour, soda, salt together 3. Mash bananas with a fork, add vanilla to the banana mixture. 4. Cream butter and sugar together until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time and beat. 5. Alternately add dry and wet ingredients to butter mixture, beginning and ending with the dry (dry-wet-dry-wet-dry) 6. Pour into pan. Bake 50-60 min, or until cake tester comes out clean (I look for a few mini moist crumbs). Cool in pan 10 min, then on rack.