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Banana Sour Cream Bread

One of the most popular breads among christmas preparations. So popular that you can find a couple of dozens recipes to prepare it.

This is special since we use sour cream in it. The cream ads extra moist to its texture and makes it so soft it melts in you mouth.

A traditional dish for Christmas but ideal match to a cup of English tea for every rainy afternoon. Prepare loaves in quantities and freeze them.

This recipe yields four medium sized loaves.

Ingredients

• ¼ cup white sugar
• ¾ cup butter
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3 cups white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 6 very ripe bananas, mashed
• 1 (16 ounce) container sour cream
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 3 teaspoons baking soda
• 4 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 300 degrees, or in small hear for about 10 min. Grease very well four 7×3 loaf pans and reserve. In a small bowl, stir together ¼ cup white sugar and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon. Use this mixture to dust pans lightly. The mixture will stick because of the grease you used in the pans.

In a large bowl, cream butter and 3 cups of sugar. Add in the eggs, one at a time. Mix the preparation very well, and do not scare if the preparation separates a bit. Keep mixing. Add mashed bananas, sour cream, vanilla and cinnamon. Once well incorporated, add ½ teaspoon of salt, baking soda and all the flour. Stir in walnuts.

Divide the preparation into the four pans. Do not fill them up to the border. Just fill the pans up to the half.

Bake for one hour in small to medium heat oven, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

If you have all the ingredients prepared it will not take more than 10 minutes to prepare the mixture and one more hour to be completely ready.

You can always replace walnuts with any fruit of choice, like chopped almonds, peanuts or chestnuts.

I specially recommend this recipe with chocolate as well. Replace nuts with the same amount of chocolate chips. Stir some flour over the chips so they do not swank to the bottom of the pan.