Banana Bread

For some reason sometimes when I buy bananas the kids eat them like crazy, but other times they sit and just get brown.  I have no idea why that is.  They must get sick of them or go through spurts of cravings for them.  Today I had some bananas that I needed to so something with so I decided to make some banana bread.  I have a banana bread recipe that I usually use, but I had found this one here and thought I would give it a try. So, this recipe is a special thanks to Melissa from What's Melissa Making.

Ingredients for 1 loaf:
4 overripe bananas
1 cups sugar
1 1/2 sticks butter, melted and cooled
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups flour
1 cups pecans, walnuts, or chocolate chips
**  I would have used pecans, but I didn't have any so I used walnuts this time **

Preheat oven to 350° and grease a loaf pans.

Mash 2 bananas with a fork, leaving some chunks and set aside. With a hand mixer or stand mixer with a wire whip mix the remaining 2 bananas with the sugar for 2-3 minutes until it's very smooth.

Add butter, eggs and vanilla and mix until well combined. Mix salt, baking soda and flour and add to wet mixture, stirring just until incorporated.

Fold in the fork-mashed bananas and nuts and/or chocolate chips. Pour into greased pans and bake 1hr 15 min until a toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean.