My Christmas Banana Bread

When my kids were young,I always made Christmas cookies with them.We have hilarious pictures of them in droopy diapers with flour in their hair and sprinkles everywhere.As time went on,baking Christmas cookies was no longer on their hit parade.I seriously looked at not baking at all.It is not my forte' and the hubby and I can do without the calories.Then I came across a simple banana bread recipe in ,of all places,a children's Mickey Mouse cookbook we bought 30 years ago in Disney World. I changed it a little and now, December 1st comes and my friends and family start asking when I will be handing out the banana bread.I have given the recipe out to many people but they come back and say,it just isn't as good as yours.Could be there be pixie dust in that old Magic Kingdom kids cookbook?Here is the recipe. Try it out.


                                           My Christmas Banana Bread

Ingredients: 1 cup of sugar
                      4 very ripe bananas  (this is key)
                      1 cup canola oil
                      2 eggs
                      2 cups all purpose flour
                      1 teaspoon Baking soda
                      1/2 teaspoon baking powder
                      2 teaspoons of vanilla

Preparation:Heat oven to 325 degrees
                      Spray loaf pan with oil
                      Mix sugar,bananas,oil and eggs in a large bowl
                      Stir in remaining ingredients
                      Pour into pan
                      Bake for 1 hour.Loaf is done when a dry spaghetti noodle
                      out cleanly when inserted into center of loaf
                      Cool for 10 minutes then loosen loaf from sides of pan onto
                      cooling rack or plate.
                      Cool completely
                      Makes one loaf

My family likes to toast slices very slightly and then spread little whipped cream cheese on top.Yummy with coffee in the morning