Sour Cream Banana Bread

🧂 Ingredients

• 3 c. mashed bananas

  from about 6 large overripe bananas
• 1 c. unsalted butter

  very soft (almost to the point where it wants to melt)
• 2 c. sugar
• 4 large eggs
• ½ c. regular sour cream
• 4 c. all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp. cinnamon
• 2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• ½ tsp. kosher salt
• mini chocolate chips

  optional – here’s our favorite!
• maraschino cherries

  quartered, optional

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 325° F. Lightly spray three 8" x 4" loaf pans (these are my
  favorite pans
  [https://www.amazon.com/Focus-Foodservice-Commercial-Bakeware-4-Pound/dp/B002P6BQFU/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1532188484&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=.75+pound+loaf+pan&linkCode=ll1&tag=afarmgisdab09-20&linkId=f431e1f408cfdcf08875a10e8a4f9f68])
  with non-stick spray and set aside.
• 2 In a medium bowl, mash bananas with a fork or rigid pastry cutter
  [https://www.amazon.com/Spring-Chef-Blender-Professional-Stainless/dp/B01CX1RIMQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1509321644&sr=1-14-spons&keywords=rigid+pastry+cutter&psc=1&linkCode=ll1&tag=afarmgisdab09-20&linkId=ba1f9681321e06f5e435ee97e2f2fa13].
  Set aside.
• 3 In a large bowl, combine butter and sugar with a spatula
  [https://www.amazon.com/GIR-Premium-Silicone-Ultimate-Spatula/dp/B00BJT5YHK/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1509320487&sr=1-2&keywords=gir+ultimate+spatula&linkCode=ll1&tag=afarmgisdab09-20&linkId=25c897d0a235755304634383aef0b7c8].
  Add the eggs to one side of the bowl, and whisk them all on their own, without
  incorporating the butter/sugar mixture (no worries if a little bit gets mixed
  in). This is my way of not dirtying another bowl to whisk the eggs! Once the
  eggs are well whisked, add the sour cream and whisk the whole mixture together.
  Add 3 cups of the mashed bananas and stir to incorporate.
• 4 Whisk together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in the
  same medium bowl that was used for the mashed bananas. Add these dry ingredients
  to the wet ingredients, and then fold together until there are no visible
  pockets of dry ingredients.
• 5 Decide how you want your banana bread…plain, with chocolate chips, or with
  maraschino cherries. See "Banana Bread Options" below.
• 6 Place pans in preheated oven and bake for 50 to 60 minutes. Check for doneness
  by inserting a toothpick into the top center of each loaf. When the toothpick
  comes out clean, it’s done. Note that any pans that have cherries stirred into
  the batter will probably need to bake a bit longer than pans without cherries.
• 7 *For three loaves of plain banana bread: Simply divide the batter evenly between
  the three prepared pans.
• 8 *For three loaves with chocolate chips: Scatter slightly less than 1/4 cup of
  mini chocolate chips across the top of each pan of batter. You could also play
  around with stirring chocolate chips right into the batter.
• 9 *For three loaves of banana bread with maraschino cherries: Stir 1 cup of
  quartered cherries into the batter, and then divide the batter amongst the three
  pans. Add a bit more quartered cherries over the tops of the batter if you like.
  Just know that the cherries will start to weigh down the top of the loaf, the
  more you add – possibly causing the top to sink a bit when baking. Go light on
  the cherries if you want a plumper looking loaf.
• 10 *For one loaf of plain banana bread, one loaf with chocolate chips, and one loaf
  with maraschino cherries: Divide the batter evenly between the three prepared
  pans. Leave pan #1 as is, this is the plain one. For pan #2, scatter slightly
  less than 1/4 cup of mini chocolate chips across the top of the batter. For pan
  #3, stir 1/3 cup of quartered cherries into the batter, and then scatter a few
  more quartered cherries over the top.
• 11 *I’ll also throw in another variation that we sometimes do. If you like
  chocolate and cherries together, stir both chocolate chips and quartered
  cherries into the batter. Or stir just quartered cherries into the batter and
  then scatter chocolate chips over the top.

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