Banana Bread

Look what we had for breakfast. Yummm.

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. baking soda
¼ tsp. ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp. ground nutmeg
¼ tsp. salt
2 beaten eggs
1 ½ cups mashed bananas (5 medium)
1 cup sugar
½ cup cooking oil or melted butter
¼ cup chopped walnuts

1 recipe Streusel-Nut Topping (below)

Grease bottom and ½ inch up the sides of a loaf pan; set aside. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Make a well in center of flour mixture; set aside.

In a medium bowl combine eggs, bananas, sugar, and oil. Add egg mixture all at once to flour mixture. Stir just until moistened. Fold in nuts. Spoon batter into prepared pan. Sprinkle Streusel-Nut Topping over batter.

Bake in a 350º oven for an hour or until wooden toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove from pan.


STREUSEL-NUT TOPPING

¼ cup packed brown sugar
3 TBS. all-purpose flour
2 TBS. butter
1/3 cup chopped walnuts

Combine all ingredients in small bowl with pastry blender.