Stacie's Sour Cream Banana Bread

Submitted by Steph_40135

"I used to frequent a cross stitch message board, and Stacie shared her banana bread recipe. I have made this numerous times - always a winner, and always eaten quickly!"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 10mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Yields: 2 loaves

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups white sugar
• 3⁄4 cup shortening
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1⁄2 cup chopped nuts (I sometimes use chocolate chips) (optional)
• 2 large bananas, mashed
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 2 1⁄2 cups flour

directions

1. Cream sugar and shortening.
2. Add eggs and vanilla; blend well.
3. Add mashed bananas.
4. Sift flour with dry ingredients.
5. Add flour to wet ingredients, alternating with sour cream.
6. Add nuts.
7. Place in 2 pans; pans should be"greased" and dusted with flour.
8. Bake at 375F fir 1 hour.
9. Remove from pans; let cool.
10. Store in tin foil; they are very moist!
11. Can easily be halved (I have done this, and it still tastes great) but be warned that you NEED two loaves!

Reviews

[Marg (CaymanDesigns)]

This is a pretty good basic banana bread. The cooking time was too long for me though and edges were burnt. I recommend you check it at 50 minutes. Also, no pan size was specified. I first put the batter in my 9x5 pans since that is what I usually use but I could tell they were too big so I transfered it to my 8x4 pans and that was better. I thought the flavor was a little bland, maybe because of the shortening being used vs. butter.

 

[Charishma_Ramchandani]

This is a tasty banana bread recipe. I've made it using low-fat plain yogurt instead of sour cream since we like that more:) It went well!