Go Bananas for... Banana Nut Bread!

 

Ingredients:

2 & 1/2 cups your favorite flour

(I used 2 cups Hodgson Mills & 1/2 cup coconut flour)
2 teaspoons baking soda

1 tsp. cinnamon, optional
1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup light agave nectar

(original recipe calls for 2 cups sugar)
3 large bananas, mashed by hand
4 eggs
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans

(I mixed both)

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Spray 2 bread loaf pans with olive oil (or any spray).

TIP: Line pan with parchment paper so an inch sticks up from the long sides of the pan...this is the first time I've done this and it was amazing.

I used my stand mixer, but use what you have to beat together the butter and agave until mixed. Add the banana and the eggs until the mixture looks slightly lumpy. Stir in the nuts. Add the flour and baking soda, and optional cinnamon to the mixture.

 

Pour batter equally among the prepared pans. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour.

 

Allow to cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. (The parchment paper overhang acts like a "handle" and lets the bread slide out SO easily...)

Banana Nut Bread - in a Fiesta ware dish...