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Banana & Walnut Bread

Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour
  • ½ cup sunflower seed oil (can be replaced with unsalted butter)
  • 1 tbsp coconut oil (optional)
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup sour cream
  • 2 whole eggs
  • 2 very ripe bananas
  • 1 cup raw walnuts
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1½ tsp baking soda
  • ⅓ tsp salt
  • ⅓ tsp cinnamon (optional)

Instructions

  1. Preheat the over to 350° Fahrenheit (180° Celsius).

  2. Prepare a loaf pan by greasing it with sunflower seed oil or coconut oil.

  3. In a medium mixing bowl, using a metal spoon, mix sunflower seed oil and coconut oil with brown sugar.

    Brown sugar and sunflower seed oil

  4. Add sour cream and continue mixing.

    Adding sour cream

  5. Add eggs, one by one, and continue mixing.

    Eggs with sour cream sugar and oil

  6. Then add salt, vanilla extract, and cinnamon if you like.

    Adding vanilla

  7. Mush the bananas using a fork and add them to the mixed ingredients. Mix them all together.

    mushed bananas

  8. Chop the walnuts and add them to the mixture and mix them with the banana batter.

    chopped walnuts

  9. In a separate mixing bowl, mix together flour with baking soda.

  10. Slowly combine the mixed flour with the wet banana and walnut mixture and gently stir until the batter is uniform.

    adding flour

  11. Pour the mixture into the loaf pan.

    banana bread mixture in loaf pan

  12. Bake for about 45 minutes. Check with a toothpick if the bread is fully baked in the middle. If the toothpick comes out wet, add another 5 - 10 minutes.

  13. Let it cool for 10 - 15 minutes. Enjoy with a cup of tea or coffee, or serve it toasted for breakfast with some butter. Yum!

    Baked banana bread