My absolute favorite snack is banana bread…or maybe it’s ice cream…it’s hard to decide between the two.  Either way it’s at the top of my fav snack list.

I admit I’m super lazy when it comes to baking bread.  Why bother to make it when I can so easily buy a slice from Starbucks whenever the craving hits.  Much more convenient.  However, the day I impulsively decided to save a little extra change & bake my first loaf of banana bread my kitchen, of course, wasn’t properly stocked. 

The recipe called for walnuts, I had none.  No problem.  Almonds are sort of similar, I just chopped those up instead.  Sour cream?  Nada.  Not a big deal though since I had just made lasagna the week before & I had a little left over extra cottage cheese which was still good.  So I whipped out my food processor out of my cupboard, scooped it into the processor & smoothed it out….almost like sour cream.  Butter?  Well I didn’t have that either, but I had a container of Olivio which personally I think has more flavor than butter anyway.  White sugar?  Nope.  I haven’t bought that in over a decade.  But I did have raw organic sugar imported from Madagascar or someplace exotic sounding.  And of course for the part of the recipe that called for vanilla extract I splashed in a generous amount of vanilla syrup that I brought back from a past trip to Haiti.  Even if the recipe hadn’t requested vanilla, I would have most certainly added the Haitian goodness because it is my secret ingredient to achieving absolute heavenly deliciousness in most of my cooking adventures.

The end result?  My banana bread snack came out tasting like crack.  Well, to be honest I don’t know what crack tastes like, but I do know I’m officially addicted to the love of this banana bread recipe!

Janet’s Rich Banana Bread *curtesy of allrecipes.com

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, melted

1 cup white sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup sour cream

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

2 medium bananas, sliced

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).  Lightly grease a 9×5 inch loaf pan.
2. In a large bowl, stir together the melted butter & sugar.  Add the eggs & vanilla, mix well.  Combine the flour, baking soda & salt, stir into the butter mixture until smooth.  Finally, fold in the sour cream, walnuts & bananas.  Spread evenly into the prepared pan
3. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean.  Cool loaf in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. 

LOVE AT FIRST BITE ❤