DIVINE BANANA BREAD Filed under ( Cakes and Bakes, Rice/Rotis/Noodles and Breads )

My friends and family say that this is the best that they have ever had!, it is bursting with the flavor and goodness of bananas, even if you have never baked before ,I promise you it is so great you would want to make it again and again...

The key is to use over-ripe bananas or bananas that are past-it, you can use the batter for muffins too.This bread is very soft & moist and will remain so even after several days, though it doesn't last more than half an hour in my home!

The best part is that during baking my entire house fills up with a to-die-for heavenly aroma!

Ingredients-

(makes 1 medium-sized loaf), (serves-6 :only in theory)

• Refined flour(maida)- 1 cup
• Bananas- 4 medium sized- mashed well (about 1 cup)
• sugar- 1/2 cup powdered
• baking soda- 1/2 tsp.
• Salted butter (Amul)-1/4 cup (50 gms.)
• salt- 1/4 tsp
• vanilla essence- 1 tsp.
• egg-1
• cinnamon & nutmeg- a pinch each

Method-

Preheat oven-180 degree C. Cream butter and sugar together very well in a large bowl.

                        creaming butter and sugar together

Combine flour, baking soda and salt together. Add the egg to the butter-sugar mixture and beat well, add mashed bananas, whisk till well blended.

                                  mashing-up the bananas

Stir flour mixture into banana mixture, stir TO JUST MOISTEN.

                    the batter poured into tin-ready for baking

Pour into prepared loaf pan and bake for 60 minutes.

                        the nicely-browned banana bread

Let cool for ten minutes before turning out of pan.

              delicious, flavorful banana bread- ready to be devoured!

This is my entry for JFI-Banana hosted by Mandira of ahaar-

( http://ahaar.blogspot.com/2007/09/jfibanana.html)