Banana Bread and Gevalia Coffee,  Great in the morning.  This is my favorite  banana bread I have been making it for holidays and as hostess gifts for years.  My kids love to wake up have a piece of Banana bread and head off to school.  It is best if the bananas are very ripe almost black,  they are sweeter that way.

One of my favorite things to have with my coffee is Banana Bread.  Here is my recipe for great tasting bread, you kids will love it as well .

Banana Bread

Ingredients:

• ½ cup of vegetable oil
• 1 cup of sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla
• 1 ¼ cups of all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• 3 large or 4 small bananas (ripe)(brown spots are fine)
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• Baking Spray or butter to grease the pans

Baking the Banana Bread

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Using an electric mixer beat oil and sugar in large mixing bowl for 2 min
3. Add eggs and vanilla to oil/sugar, beat well with mixer (I was making a dbl batch use 2 eggs for one batch)
4. Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder into batter, mix for 2 minutes (if you don’t have a sifter light spoon in flour so it is not heavy)
5. In separate bowl mash (with a potato masher or large fork) peeled banana with cinnamon (like chunky baby food): add to batter and mix to well blender
6. Pour the banana bread into 2 well greased loaf pans 9x5x3″ or 1 pan if you like a bigger slice
7. Bake for 37-40 mins for 2 loaves or 42-45 for 1 loaf (watch them once they get golden take them out as long as the toothpick comes out clean)
8. Let cool for 10 min before taking out of banana bread loaf pan and cutting. Also can be frozen

Variations:

• ½ cup chocolate chips, add once the batter is already in loaf pan.. if you add chips mix in with mixer they tend to go to the bottom of the loaf once you pour in the pan.
• Smaller personal loafs which I make more at the holidays teacher gifts ..take about 37 min to bake , you can make 4 small loves from one batch of batter
• Banana ripe but no time to make the bread, freeze the bananas for later . The bananas tend to not be a chunky but the taste is the same. FYI Banana turn black when frozen they are still good

I am doing my 1st webchat with a Gevalia. If you could join me for support I would love it.  Want to talk BabyPop, my blog, baking,  and coffee.   Join me Today 10-11 am for @Gevalia coffee chat

Thanks to Gevalia for the great talk.

Disclosure: I did receive product  for the chat but the opinions in this post are all of my own.