Best Banana Bread

One of my oldest friends finally gave me this recipe. Her mom used to make it every week and the highlight of going over to her house to play when we were in grade school was having banana bread as a snack. This recipe instantly reminds me of my childhood! The adult in me (she is somewhere) realizes that this is the perfect easy bake cake to use up almost rotten bananas and items that EVERYONE has in their pantries: The basics- flour sugar, eggs, baking soda, oil, etc. I think the secret ingredient of deliciousness is the orange juice! As you can see from the photos, I quadrupled the quantity which yielded 5 loaves…but the ratio below yields 1 large loaf or two baby loaves.

1 3/4 Cup Flour
1 1/2 Cup Sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 eggs
1/2 Cup veg. oil
1/4 Cup + 1T. orange juice
1 teaspoon vanilla
2-3 ripe bananas (mashed)
1/2 to 1 cup chocolate chips (optional slash mandatory)

Mix all ingredients together (mix dry first and wet first, then combine)
Grease and flour a loaf pan
Sprinkle cinnamon -sugar on top
Bake at 325 degrees for about 1 hour and 15 minutes

Flour
flour

Eggies
eggs

Add the OJ
pour orange juice

Then the veggie oil
add vegetable oil

Dry ingredients, all assembled; flour, baking soda, suga
flour, sugar, baking soda

Marry the wet and dry ingreds
pour mixture into dry ingredients

Mix that up
mix

In a separate bowl, gather up the chopped bananas

A masher makes things easier…
mash bananas

Chocolate chips (semisweet) make this (super) sweet

stir in chocolate chips

Grease up those pans and pour the mixture in
baking pans

When topping off a dish with cinna-sugar, it’s easier to combine them beforehand
cinnamon and sugar

Sprinkles
sprinkle cinnamon and sugar

I forgot to take a final photo! But on the left hand side of this photo you see the banana bread sliced and plated on a lovely lucite platter! SO GOOD

dessert table!