Banana Bread

Don't throw away your brown bananas! Save them for this delicious banana bread.

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup butter or stick margarine, at room temperature
• 2 large eggs or four egg whites
• 3 mashed very ripe bananas
• 1/2 cup soy milk
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• chocolate chips or nuts if desired

Preheat oven to 350F and grease two loaf pans.

Mix sugar and butter in a large bowl. Stir in eggs until combined. Add bananas, milk and vanilla until smooth. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt until just moistened. Add nuts or chocolate chips if desired.

Divide batter between two pans. Bake about 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes on wire rack, remove loaves from pans and cool completely.

Wrap tightly and store at room temperature up to 4 days, in the fridge up to 10 days or slice and store frozen for easy to grab snack/breakfast.