Banana Bread

Ingredients

• 3 cup + 5 tbsp all purpose flour
• 1¾ tsp baking soda
• ¾ tsp salt
• 5 bananas, very ripe
• 1½ cups (3 sticks) butter, softened
• 2 cups brown sugar
• ¾ cup sugar
• 5 eggs
• ½ tsp Amoretti® Vanilla Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla W.S. 20X
• ½ tsp Amoretti® Banana Compound
• 6 tbsp buttermilk

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 325°F.
2. Sift all dry ingredients and set aside.
3. In a food processor, purée bananas.
4. Cream butter and sugars.
5. Add eggs one at a time, scraping bowl after mixing each one.
6. Add bananas to butter/sugar mixture, scraping bowl after mixing.
7. Add Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla and Banana Compound.
8. Alternate adding the dry ingredients with the buttermilk, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients.
9. Pour into 2 sprayed and floured loaf pans.
10. Bake for approximately 45 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.
11. Let cool for 30 minutes before cutting or wrapping and chilling.
12. The bread can be kept wrapped and chilled for 5 days or frozen for up to 4 weeks.