Banana Bread

• I let some bananas go over-ripe just so I could make banana bread. It is delicious and the kids love it for breakfast.
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• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 4-6 over-ripe bananas
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 and grease a 9x5 bread pan.

In one bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, and salt. In another bowl, cream softened butter and brown sugar. (I use a hand mixer because then I can add the rest of the ingredients and make the bananas as smooth or as chunky as I want). Add eggs, bananas, vanilla, and cinnamon to the butter/sugar bowl and mix together. Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and using a wooden spoon, blend until just combined. If you over-mix it, you'll have dry banana bread - yuck! 

Bake for 60 minutes (I check it after 50 just to see if it's done - sometimes my convection oven cooks it faster than I'm expecting). Pull out, turn onto a rack and let cool.