An old-school banana bread recipe handed down from my mother and believed to have originated from the gracious Halekulani hotel on Waikiki beach.
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup butter (2 sticks)
- 6 ripe bananas, mashed with a fork
- 4 well beaten eggs
- 2.5 cups sifted cake flour
- 1 t salt
- 2 t baking soda
- 1 cup chopped walnuts or macadamia nuts
Directions
- 1Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cream together sugar and butter
- 2Add mashed bananas
- 3Blend wet and dry ingredients together. Do not over mix. Add nuts.
- 4Divide into two loaf pans or muffin top pans. For loaves bake 45 to 50 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. For muffin tops bake for about 15 minutes until tops are golden brown.
