Buttermilk Banana Bread

From Two Peas and Their Pod

ingredients:

1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 cup mashed bananas (3 medium sized bananas)
4 tablespoons buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon baking soda

directions:

1. Grease and flour 1 large loaf pan (9 1/4 X 5 1/4-inch) or whatever combination of pans you’d like. I used a mini loaf pan and a 8 1/2 X 4 1/2 loaf pan. You can also make banana muffins with this recipe, if you wish. Set pans aside.

2. In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs, mashed bananas, buttermilk, and vanilla until the batter is well mixed.

3. Add in the flour, baking powder, salt and soda. Mix until well combined. Divide batter into greased and floured pans and bake at 350 degrees for 50-55 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

4. Let bread cool on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Loosen the bread with a knife and carefully remove from pan. Finish cooling on rack. Slice and serve once cooled.

Notes from Jill's Kitchen: I was THIS CLOSE to adding chocolate chips to this, but backed off at the last minute. "No, Sam likes it better without..." I thought. "It's a new recipe- who knows if it would even taste good with chocolate?" WHAT WAS I THINKING?!  Don't I know well and good by now that everything tastes better with chocolate? Probably even Brussels sprouts and I really, really REALLY don't like those. Anyway, this bread really could have used some chocolate chips, but otherwise an entirely decent loaf of banana bread.