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Best-Ever Banana Bread.

You can cook Best-Ever Banana Bread using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Best-Ever Banana Bread

1. You need 1 1/4 cup of sugar.
2. It's 1/2 cup of butter or margarine,softened.
3. Prepare 2 of eggs.
4. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of mashed very ripe bananas (3 to 4 medium).
5. You need 1/2 cup of buttermilk or milk.
6. It's 1 tsp of vanilla.
7. You need 2 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour.
8. It's 1 tsp of baking soda.
9. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
10. You need 1 cup of chopped nuts, if desired.

Best-Ever Banana Bread instructions

1. Heat oven to 350°F . Grease bottoms only of 2 (8x4-inch)loaf pans or 1 (9x5-inch)loaf pan..
2. In large bowl, mix sugar and butter. Add eggs,bananas,buttermilk and vanilla ; beat with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth.Stir in flour,baking soda,salt and nuts just until moistened. Pour batter into pans..
3. Bake 8-inch loaves 1hour,9-inch loaf 1 1/4 hours, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Loosen sides of loaves from pans; remove from pan to cooling rack. Cool about 1 hour before slicing..
4. High Altitude (3500-6500ft): Increase flour to 2 3/4 cups. In step 1,heat oven to 375°F. In step2,add 1/4 cup water with buttermilk. Bake 8-inch loaves about 1hour 5minutes,9-inch loaf about 1hour 30 minutes..