Lite (but Yummy!) Banana Bread

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 3 very ripe bananas
• 1/2 cup egg beaters egg substitute (or 2 eggs)
• 1/2 cup light butter, softened
• 1 1/4 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup sugar (i use organic cane sugar, but granulated is fine, too)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla (stirred into banana mixture) (optional)
• nuts (stirred in after sugar) (optional)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 mash together softened butter, bananas and eggs.
• 3 in measuring cup, mix flour, salt and baking soda, then stir into banana mixture.
• 4 mix in sugar.
• 5 pour batter into a 9-inch loaf pan or two loaf pans (sometimes i grease it, sometimes i don't!).
• 6 bake for 45 minutes. if a toothpick inserted in the "broken" part of the loaf doesn't come out clean, cover w/ tin foil and bake for an additional 15 minutes.