Banana Bread

3 ripe bananas

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter (room temperature)

2 eggs

1 t vanilla

2 cups all purpose flour

1 t baking powder

1/2 t baking soda

1/8 t salt

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees and grease loaf pan

2. In a large bowl, mash the bananas. Add sugar and butter and mix with an electric mixer until smooth. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix on low about 1 min.

3. Mix in a bowl, flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add the banana mixture all at once. Stir with a wooden spoon just until combined.

4. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and bake 60-70 min. until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean but not dry. Let cool in pan 10 min.