What do you do with your very ripe bananas?

I made Banana Bread!

 

My Simple Whole Wheat Banana Nut Raisin Bread

 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

I sliced and mashed the 4 small very ripe bananas in a big bowl.

I used a potato masher.

 

Added to the mashed bananas:

1 cup Yellow Raisins.

1 cup Walnuts

1/2 cup Organic Maple Syrup

1 Egg

1/4 cup Butter

1 teaspoon Simply Organic Lemon Extract

Blend it all together.

 

In another bowl - Mix together:

 2 cups of Whole Wheat Flour

1 tablespoon Baking Powder

 

Stir Flour/baking power mixture into Banana mixture.

 

Spoon into a greased loaf pan. (I used olive oil and paper towel to grease the loaf pan.)

It's really a thick heavy "batter".

So you will need to even it out a bit.

My loaf pan is the CorningWare kind, I put it on a cookie sheet.

I first checked it at 45 minutes.

Baked it for a total of 60 minutes. 

That's how long it took for a tooth inserted in the center to come out clean.