Banana Bread

I am NOT a cook. I can burn toast. A friend got one & cooked most delectable meals & desserts for me. So I decided at age 67 to learn how to cook with one of these contraptions. Only made one meal but I really liked it!

½ cup butter, room temperature

¾ cup sugar, white or brown

¼ cup sour cream or yogurt

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp lemon zest (optional)

1 cup mashed banana

1 ¾ cups + 2 Tbsp sifted flour

1 ½ tsp baking powder

¾ tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

(¼ tsp cinnamon - optional)

(⅛ tsp nutmeg - optional)

Optional add-ins, up to ¾ cup total: walnuts, pecans or other nuts, sunflower seeds, coconut, chocolate chips, 1 ½ Tbsp cocoa powder (for swirling through batter at the end) or whatever the heck you like.

Switch it up: Replace part or all of the mashed banana with apple, cherry, or blueberry pie filling, finely grated carrot, zucchini, crushed pineapple, grated apple. This is a basic quick bread recipe - let your imagination take flight. As long as it has approximately the same water content as mashed bananas, it will work.

Directions at rootitoot.com

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