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Stellas Banana Bread Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Edensong / All my dishes 2 years, 8 months ago This was my gramma's recipe and it's the best!!! I think the secret to its moist texture and marvelous taste is the sour cream or sour milk and making sure the bananas go to "wine". Freeze 3 bananas to a bag, and then let them come to room temperat... More Prep:15m Cook:60m Servings:12	Edensong
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Stellas Banana Bread

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Ingredients

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter

2 eggs

3 ripe mashed bananas

1/2 cup sour cream

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp baking powder

2 cups flour

1/2 cup nuts (optional)

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Combine sugar with butter and eggs.

Add bananas, sour cream, and vanilla. You may use sour milk in place of the sour cream by adding 1 tablespoon of vinegar or lemon juice to 1 cup milk and let it sit for at least 10 minutes to sour.

Sift dry ingredients and add to mixture.

Pour into greased and floured 9-inch loaf pan.

Bake for about 1 hour, or until a knife inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean.

Cool for a few minutes before removing from pan, then cool on rack.

Once the bread is cooled, wrap in foil and freeze for a couple weeks. Remove from freezer and bring to room temperature to serve. Hmmmm, good! Of course, that's hard to do if only one loaf is made, as it will be eaten quickly.

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Comments

borinda 2 years, 8 months ago said:
Do you use a 9" or other size loaf pan for this bread? It looks excellent!

edensong 2 years, 8 months ago said:
Yes, it's a one-lb pan (some are 8 1/2"). I added that to the instructions - thanks. I usually double the recipe and I use my long skinny pans (sorry I don't know how long they are), but I have also made this in a standard bread loaf pan.

jennmet 2 years, 8 months ago said:
I'm going to try this tomorrow! thanks!

sidekickofedensong 2 years, 8 months ago said:
I've made this! It's moist and delicious. I'm a banana cake/bread foodie aka junkie, always searching for new recipes for the ultimate banana cake. I have a selected few on my list ~ this is one.

choco780 2 years, 8 months ago said:
Sounds yummy like the one my grandma used to make!

dubnacious 2 years, 8 months ago said:
Killer recipe. I love the "wine" detail, really cool. When I was a kid, around nine, my family moved from suburban England to an island in the West Indies. We ended up on a banana plantation in the mountains. Recipe reminds me of something we used to improvise, because we so so sick of eating plain ripe bananas. We'd use an old cracker tin over an open fire for an oven. My sister and I would gather wild raspberries, boil them up for preserves and eat the bread with that, YUM.

atokadawn 2 years, 8 months ago said:
This sounds great! Hey did you know you have a shadow? I want a side kick!

Off to put the nananas in the freezer.

kari46 2 years, 6 months ago said:
I think the sour cream will make the difference in this banana bread recipe versus others I've tried.

coffeebean 2 years, 5 months ago said:
Yay, that looks good, we are all banana-fans (except the cat, he loves parmesan-cheese) and I tried a banana bread years ago while living still in Austria, but somehow did not like it really.. now this recipe is well worth of trying it, maybe tomorrow.. thanks for sharing!

mamaclare 2 years, 5 months ago said:
This is fantastic! We just got a great deal on a lot of organic bananas, so I went searching for something a bit different. My husband said he prefers my old stand by, which is much more dense. I put butter on it and warm it to eat it, but with this I just eat it and eat it (and can't stop... neither could husband, ahem) Thanks for a great recipe and for a beautiful description.

edensong 2 years, 5 months ago said:
That's funny, mamaclare -- glad your husband and you really liked it. I know what you mean about eating it and eating it -- that's why I usually only make it for the holidays! :)

darbar 2 years, 4 months ago said:
Sounds yummy!

dancerica 2 years, 4 months ago said:
This recipe is the BEST recipe for banana bread I've ever tried. Simply amazing. I highly recommend it. SO MOIST!! Thanks very much for sharing!

jacque 2 years ago said:
Hi, I don't have any sour cream, so do you think it will be just as good with sour milk...Thx

edensong 2 years ago said:
Yes, jacque. That's actually what my gramma did. She's put vinegar or lemon juice in milk for a few minutes to let it sour.