Banana Bread

More cake like than bread, a great, easy recipe. I had " borrowed " the banana chips from my parrot's treat bag and she was having a hissy fit watching me take them. Little did I know that after cooling and wrapping the bread before I left for the day, my son would come home, find it and had eaten the WHOLE top off before devouring almost half of what was left. Do I believe in karma ?,You bet!, I saw it myself..LOL. The bake time may increase depending on your oven temp correctness vs mine.

• Ready In: 1 hr 20 mins
• Yields: 1 loaf

Ingredients

• Dry mix

• 1  cup all-purpose flour
• 1 (3 1/2ounce) box instant vanilla pudding (or your favourite ie butterscotch)
• 1⁄2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon

• Wet mix

• 1  cup  ripe banana, mashed
• 2⁄3 cup  vegetable oil
• 2  eggs
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract (if changing the pudding flavour, you can change the extract also)
• 1⁄2 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
• 1⁄4 cup  dried banana chips, break pieces
• 3⁄4 cup  toasted  nuts, chopped (walnut, pecan etc , I set aside alittle of each to top bread)

Directions

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Lightly butter a 1 loaf baking pan (I keep a baggie of my empty butter wrappers in the fridge for ease of buttering any pan) Combine well the dry mix in a large plastic bag.
3. With a hand mixer combine wet mix in a large mixing bowl, blending well.
4. Pour increments of dry mix into wet mix, hand stirring each addition.
5. Add banana chips and toasted nuts to mixture, stirring well.
6. Top with chip& nut mix you may have set aside.
7. Bake for 1 hour- 1 hour 15 minutes or when a toothpick inserted, comes out clean.
8. (loaf becomes dark golden) Cool on a wire rack.
9. Remove from pan when cool and wrap.
10. Hide loaf well.