Recipe for cooking banana oatmeal bread

Quick Meals- Soups and Bread :: Sweet Quick Breads

Banana Oatmeal Bread

3 C. unbleached flour
1 C. regular oatmeal
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. kosher salt
1/2 lb. butter
2 C. sugar
1 Tbsp. vanilla extract or flavoring
3 eggs
2 C. mashed bananas
2 C. buttermilk
1 C. chopped pecans

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Prepare two mini-Bundt pans (6 mini cakes in each) or two 8-C. bread loaf pans by spraying with nonstick spray.

Whisk together flour, oatmeal, baking soda and salt; reserve.

In mixer bowl and using paddle, cream butter, sugar and vanilla extract or flavoring until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time; add bananas, beat again until creamy, about 1 min. Add dry ingredients mix to creamed mix, alternating with buttermilk. Stir in pecans.

Bake 45 min. or until set in middle and bread has pulled away slightly from pans. Cool before removing from pans.

Nutritional information per servings: 202 cal.; 3 grams protein, 28 grams carbohydrates, 9 grams fat, 36 milligrams cholesterol, 207 milligrams sodium