Banana Spice Bread
Delicious enough to share.
Yield: Makes 1 loaf, serves 12
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup vegetable shortening
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 3/4 tsp. banana flavor
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
- 1 cup mashed ripe banana
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
- Grease bottom of 9 x 5-inch loaf pan
- In large bowl, mix cream, shortening and sugar until fluffy
- Mix in eggs, vanilla extract and banana flavor untilwell combined
- In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, bakingsoda, salt, and nutmeg
- Add bananas to sugar mixture; mix well
- Stir in nuts
- Pour into pan, bake for 45 to 50 minutes, or until done
- Cool in pan on rack for 5 minutes
- Turn out of pan and cool on rack
