Banana Bread

We had four horribly over ripe bananas that we were loathe to throw away. So we made banana bread.

We mostly followed the recipe outlined here, but we initially started on another recipe and so the order of addition of ingredients is slightly different from the recipe in the link.

Ingredients

1/2 cup (110 g) butter

1 cup (210 g) white sugar

2 eggs

4 ripe bananas (original recipe called for 3)

2 cups (220 g) All-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda (We didn't have any, so skipped)

1 teaspoon baking powder (used double to accomodate missing soda)

1/2 teaspoon salt

Dribble (maybe 1/2 teaspoon) vanilla essence

We didn't have any walnuts so we skipped that too.

Procedure

1. Preheat oven to 175 C.
2. (What we did) Melt the butter in the microwave and mash in the bananas. Add the eggs, one at a time and stir. Then mix in the sugar. The original recipe: In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition, stir in the mashed bananas.
3. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. 
4. Mix together the banana mixture and the flour mixture till just combined. 
5. Butter the inside of the baking dish and add the batter to the dish. The batter seemed much too runny but given the end result I'm going to assume this is a good thing.
6. Bake for 60 minutes. Test with knife before taking out of oven. You might want to bake it slightly shorter if you use coarser flour, like whole wheat or something. Check at 50 minutes.

Runny cake batter