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Ashley’s Banana Bread

My sister hates bananas. Imagine all of the yummy recipes that eliminates for her! Nonetheless, when my niece Ashley makes this banana bread, it’s so good, even Beth will eat it. Maybe it has something to do with all that butter.

Ingredients

3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
4 ripe bananas, mashed
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup buttermilk, well shaken
1 cup chopped pecans

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease 2 9 × 5-inch loaf pans.

    Step 2

    With an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the bananas and vanilla. Sift the flour together with the baking soda and salt and add to the banana mixture alternately with the buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour. Fold in the nuts.

    Step 3

    Pour the batter into the loaf pans and bake for 55 minutes. Cool slightly in the pan before turning the loaves out onto wire racks to cool completely.

Reprinted with permission from Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen: Recipes from My Family to Yours by Trisha Yearwood with Gwen Yearwood and Beth Yearwood Bernard. Copyright © 2008 by Trisha Yearwood. Published by Crown Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved. Trisha Yearwood is a three-time Grammy-award winning country music star and the author of the bestselling cookbook Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen. She is married to megastar Garth Brooks.
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