Banana Bread

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 (3 1/2 ounce) box instant vanilla pudding (or your favourite ie butterscotch)
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 cup ripe banana, mashed
• 2/3 cup vegetable oil
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (if changing the pudding flavour, you can change the extract also)
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
• 1/4 cup dried banana chips, break pieces
• 3/4 cup toasted nuts, chopped (walnut, pecan etc , i set aside alittle of each to top bread)

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 lightly butter a 1 loaf baking pan (i keep a baggie of my empty butter wrappers in the fridge for ease of buttering any pan) combine well the dry mix in a large plastic bag.
• 3 with a hand mixer combine wet mix in a large mixing bowl, blending well.
• 4 pour increments of dry mix into wet mix, hand stirring each addition.
• 5 add banana chips and toasted nuts to mixture, stirring well.
• 6 top with chip& nut mix you may have set aside.
• 7 bake for 1 hour- 1 hour 15 minutes or when a toothpick inserted, comes out clean.
• 8 (loaf becomes dark golden) cool on a wire rack.
• 9 remove from pan when cool and wrap.
• 10 hide loaf well.