Banana Walnut Bread

My DH loves Banana Nut bread, which we get from our local bakery. It is one of the few sweets that he likes very much, quoting he is not much of a sweet-tooth person. I was planning to bake one for him and was searching for a really soft, bakery-style banana nut quick-bread recipe. I was very happy when I made this best, moist and melt-in-the-mouth bread.

Ingredients:
Adapted from here
All purpose flour/Maida - 2 cups
Baking soda - 1 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Walnuts - toasted and chopped - 1/2 cup
Butter - 1/2 cup or 1 stick - softened (room temperature)
Sugar - 1 cup
Light brown sugar - 1/4 cup (can replace with regular sugar if desired)
Eggs - 2 (room temperature)
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Ripe Bananas - 3 large -  approx 1 cup - mashed
Buttermilk - 1 cup

Method:
Preheat the oven to 325 F/160 C. Grease a 9"x5" loaf pan. Place the walnuts in a baking sheet and toast for 10 mins. Allow it to cool and chop coarsely. Mix together the flour, baking soda and salt with a sieve or whisk. Cream sugar, brown sugar and butter until the sugar melts. Add the eggs one by one, mixing well after each addition. Add mashed bananas, vanilla and mix well. Add flour and buttermilk alternatively mixing well after each addition. Do not overmix. Add the chopped nuts and fold with a spatula. Pour the mixture to the loaf pan and bake for 1 hr 15 mins to 1 hr 20 mins. Every oven is different so keep an eye after 1 hr. Cool in a wire rack when done. Slice up and enjoy for breakfast or a quick snack with tea.

Sending this to Healing Foods - Banana event by Siri hosted by me for this month and to Bookmarked Recipes - Every Tuesday event by Aipi & Priya.

Also sending this to Nivedita's Celebrate Sweets event..




Sending this to ABC series - B for Banana event by Ramya.


Sending this to Srivalli's Kid's Delight hosted by Nupur of UK-Rasoi, for the month of April 2012.