From my Kitchen: Banana Bread

I've been wanting to make Banana bread since we always have ripe bananas (lacatan) at home.  I got time yesterday so I tried making some.  I am sharing the recipe I got from Chef Len Santos-Ding of Feed 5000.  She taught this very simple recipe to the kids (including my son Matt) enrolled in her cooking class just recently. The chopped walnuts was not originally included in her recipe, I just added it for texture.

Matt's banana bread

Ingredients:

• 2 cups All Purpose Flour
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 3 Ripe Bananas
• 1 1/2 cups Sugar
• 1/2 cup Vegetable Oil
• 1/3 cup Heavy Cream (or All purpose cream)
• 2 Large Eggs
• 1/2 cup chopped Walnuts

Procedure:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease 2 loaf pans or 2 muffin tins.

1. In a medium-sized bowl, sift together the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.  Set aside.
2. In a small bowl whisk together eggs, cream and oil until well combined. Set aside.
3. In a large bowl, mash the banana and add sugar.
4. Using a hand mixer or a whisk, whip together (2 & 3) until fluffy, about 1 minute. Add in the wet ingredients and whisk again.  (The students didn't use hand mixer, they only used hand mixing)
5. Add the flour mixture (1/4 cup at a time) and mix together with a whisk or rubber spatula.  Add walnuts. Pour into the baking pan and bake for about 1 hour and 15 minutes (mine was already baked after 50 minutes) or until inserted wooden toothpick comes out clean.  Set aside to cool for an hour. (Bake 15-20 minutes if muffin tins are used.)

Freshly baked banana bread

I really recommend adding walnuts

Happy baking!