Banana Bread

My Second Baking Venture - Banana Bread
Even though i have had this many time, never thought of making it till recently when i had it from one of our friend's house.
I was not happy with the color of this bread, so i tried to make it better the next time, but it was not a super success even though the color came out good enough.
You should use overripe bananas for this.This is how mine looked.

Serves 4
Ingredients - Everything should be in room temperature
Wet Ingredients
Butter - 4 tbsp
Sugar - 1/2 cup (I used white but brown sugar gives a rich color)
Egg - 1 large
Vanilla Extract - 1/2 tsp

Banana Over Ripe - 1 1/2 (around 375 gms)

Dry Ingredients
Wheat flour - 1/4 cup
All Purpose flour - 3/4 cup
Baking Pdr - 3/4 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp

Optional Items
Nuts - 1/4 cup
Shredded Coconut - 1/4 cup
Chocolate Chips - 1/4 cup

Butter - for smearing the baking pan

 You can either use a spatula or whisker or hand mixer for mixing the ingredients

Mash the banana with a fork and keep aside.
Break the egg and keep it in a bowl.
Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl very well and keep aside

Take a bowl and whisk the butter and sugar till its creamy.
Now add in the egg and whisk it well.
Add the vanilla extract and mix in
Add in the mashed banana and mix it.
Add the dry ingredients half at a time and mix it into the wet ingredients mixture.

Now using a spoon you can add the nuts, shredded coconut and chocolate chips into this mixture.

Preheat the oven to 350 degree

Now smear your baking pan with butter on all sides and pour the mixture into this.
Slightly shake so that the mixture settles well.

Now bake the same for 45-50 minutes or till a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Let it cool for 15 minutes and move to the serving dish.

You can bake for some more time if its not done by 50 mins. Mine was done perfectly by this time
The time required may vary based on your oven
The banana bread mixture should fill only till 2/3 rd of your baking pan.

Serve the Banana Bread slices with Butter or you can even make French Toast with it

Happy Baking Guys!!!