yay!
1-1/2 cups of mashed super ripe banana (i usually put a little more than 1 cup so like 3 bananas)
1 3/4 cups of flour (all purpose or whole wheat or some of both)
3/4 cup of brown sugar (packed) (or slightly less than 3/4 cup of agave)
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
2 tbs milk
6 tbs butter (or 4 tbs and 1/4 cup of applesauce)
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup walnuts or chocolate chips (or both if you want!)
There are two ways to make this... The easy way and the real way. As far as I can tell they turn out the same so its up to you!
for both: preheat the oven to 350 F.
EASY WAY:
Put all the dry ingredients in a bowl and mix them, then make a well in the center. Put the eggs, melted butter, milk, sugar and vanilla in the well and them up in the center with a fork so that the wet ingredients are combined and then incorporate the surrounding dry ingredients.
REAL WAY:
Cream the softened butter with the brown sugar. Then add vanilla, eggs and banana. In a different bowl, combine all the dry ingredients and those to the wet ingredients.
BAKING: There are 3 ways I've made this: Bread/cake, muffins and pancakes.
Bread/Cake: put in a greased bread tin (you may need two) or any cake pan and bake for 45 to 1 hour. Just test the readiness by sticking a knife in the center at like 45 min (it should come out clean).
Cupcake/Muffin: If you want you can make this in cupcake/muffin form, in which case you put the batter in a cupcake tin in baking cups and bake for about 20- 25 min (but you might need more depending on your oven so just check the readiness with a knife at 20 min and then every 5 min or so after that).
Pancakes: You may need to add 1 or 2 more tbs of milk to make the batter a bit looser, but just put the batter in circles on a heated, greased pan and you get lovely banana pancakes!
