Moms Banana Bread Or Muffins Recipes

Steps:

• Cream together butter, sugar, & egg yolks until creamy.
• Sift dry ingredients together (flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon & nutmeg). Alternately add the dry mixture to the creamed butter mixture as well as the milk & mashed bananas. Beat the egg whites until a stiff peak forms and fold in with a wooden spoon, (make sure you only use a wooden spoon to do this - this is KEY), next - fold in the chopped nuts also stir in with the wooden spoon.
• Bake in a loaf pan that you have sprayed with olive oil or non-stick spray and dusted lightly with flour at 350° for approximately 45 minutes - insert a toothpick in the center of the loaf to ensure it is not runny, if it is - allow to bake an additional 5-10 minutes.
• Cool on a wire rack and serve with cream cheese or your favorite margarine.
• Note: I love to wait a day and then toast a piece in my toaster oven - it is SO good when it gets re-heated and toasty with butter on it and a cup of coffee - YUM!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Either grease and flour a 9" X 5" loaf pan or place 12 cupcake papers in a muffin pan.
• Cream sugar and shortening, beat in eggs then bananas.
• Combine baking soda with milk, stir into creamed mixture.
• Sift flour with salt and spices; add a little at a time to the creamed mixture, beating well after each addition.
• Stir in nuts; pour into prepared pan.
• For muffins, bake for 22 minutes at 350 degrees, or until knife in center comes out clean.
• For loaf, bake for 35 minutes at 350 degrees, then cover with aluminum foil and continue to bake for 25 additional minutes or until knife in center comes out clean.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Line Cupcake tin with papers & spray with vanilla pam (pam for baking).
• In Large bowl, combine flour soda & salt.
• In a separate bowl, cream together Butter & Sugar.
• Stir in Eggs & mashed Bananas until well blended.
• Stir Banana mixture into flour mixture (I used an electric mixer on low).
• Fill muffin tins with generous amount of Banana batter (I fill almost to the top).
• Bake 20 min or untill toothpic comes out clean.

Steps:

• Cream sugar and butter.
• Add eggs, beat well.
• Add rest of ingredients.
• Pour into loaf pan.
• Sprinkle walnuts over top.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour 20 minutes. Or until toothpick comes out clean.
• Keep in pan 10 minutes then put on wire rack until completely cooled.
• Muffins- 325 degrees for 25 minutes.
• Mini Muffins- 325 degrees for 15 minutes.