Bangin' Banana Bread

This is a loaf with the pure taste of bananas and the toasty crunch of macadamia nuts.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 60 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins
• Calories: 270 Calories

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• ½ cup white sugar
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• 1 ¼ teaspoons baking soda
• ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
• ½ cup butter, at room temperature
• 2 eggs, at room temperature
• 2 ½ cups pureed ripe bananas
• ½ cup coarsely chopped macadamia nuts

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.

Step 2

In a mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar together with an electric mixer until thoroughly blended. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, and add the bananas, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and vanilla extract. Stir in the flour by hand until barely combined, and gently fold the macadamia nuts into the batter.

Step 3

Pour the batter into the prepared pan, and bake on the oven's middle shelf until a toothpick or cake tester inserted in the middle of the loaf comes out clean, 60 to 65 minutes.

Step 4

Remove from oven, and let the loaf rest for 10 minutes before turning out from the pan.