Granny's Banana Bread Recipe

I love recipes that come from older generations.  They have a sort of tried and true aspect to them.  The recipe has most likely been made hundreds of times and liked just as many:)  I have a recipe for banana bread that was given to me by my grandmother and I just love it and so does everyone else that tries it.

Granny's Banana Bread

To start you want to preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  Gather your ingredients and prepare your loaf pans.  I spray mine with baking spray, but granny used the end of the butter to butter her pans.

1 stick of unsalted butter, sofetened

2 eggs

1 cup of sugar OR 1/2 Splenda for baking 

2 cups flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1-1/2 baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

2 bananas, mashed

1/3 cup milk

1 cup nuts (if desired)

Add butter, eggs and sugar to medium bowl and mix on low speed until combined..  I use a handheld mixer like this to make this recipe.  Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and milk.  Mix until combined.  Stir in bananas and nuts (if desired) until well combined.  Pour into loaf pans.  Now depending on your size of loaf pan you can use one pan.  I have two pans that I fill half way and the following pictures show my results.  If you do use one pan just don't over fill it.  Keep it to around 3/4's full so it doesn't end up all over your oven:)

Using two loaf pans your going to bake for about 30 minutes and check with a toothpick for doneness.  If using a larger single loaf pan give it 45 minutes and check it, but it could take up to an hour.

I made 4 loaves today and 2 were without nuts and 2 were made with peanuts!  This was my first time using peanuts, I usually use walnuts or pecans.  

Above with peanuts.

Above without.

So moist and yummy!

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy it:)  ~Angi

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Sug-tella Cookies

My husband and I have been watching Big Brother since it started a few years ago.  Well this year we had switched to Direct TV and now have Showtime.Well that means we are able to watch after dark, it is really boring most times.  One night they were in the kitchen making a cinnamon roll up or something, not sure exactly.  The more they talked about it the more I wanted to bake something!  Well I came up with the best tasting cookie!  I had Sugar cookie mix and I made that and then rolled it out and thought "NUTELLA!" 

I spread Nutella over the cookie dough I had rolled out and rolled it up like a jelly roll covered with plastic wrap.  I put it in the fridge for about an hour.  When I took it out I removed the plastic wrap, sliced it and placed on a cookie sheet.  I baked them according to the directions on the package for a cut out cookie.

  Oh they are soooo yummy!

I have made two batches and they went so quickly.  Everyone that has tried them loved them.  Thank you for stopping by and visiting my blog:)

~Angi