How To: Bake tasty banana bread with a perfectly textured batter

Bananas are a hard sell sometimes when it comes to the kitchen. If you're not eating it straight up, you might not be getting the full effect. That's why a lot of recipes fail when they include bananas, but not this one. This one's a keeper. A family recipe to be saved forever, to be made over and over again. No banana bread ever tasted this good!

Chloe Rosen mixes up a batter that's perfectly textured, in fact, "lumpy" is the description that suits exactly what you're looking for. Her recipe bakes up a loaf of scrumptious bread that's great served warm, room temperature, plain, or topped with whipped cream. Just the treat to pop in a lunchbox too.

INGREDIENTS:

Wet Ingredients

* 4 very ripe bananas
* 2 eggs, beaten well
* 1 stick (½ cup) butter, room temperature

Dry Ingredients

* 1¼ cups flour, sifted
* 1 cup sugar
* 1 tsp baking soda
* ¼ tsp salt

For Baking

* nonstick cooking spray or butter

Special Equipment

* potato masher
* pastry knife
* loaf pan