My husband claims to have never tried banana bread before, so on a rainy Halloween I baked my first one for him to try. I love banana bread and always wanted to bake it, but was never able to keep bananas around long enough to mature perfectly. There are a million recipes out there, so I tried a pretty basic one. It didn’t call for walnuts, which was weird. Mine had to—he’s nuts for walnuts!

Ingredients

4 ripe, smashed bananas

1/3 cup melted butter

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1.5 cups walnuts

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp baking soda

pinch of salt

1.5 cups flour

Bake

preheat oven to 175c

mix butter and bananas

mix in sugar, egg, vanilla, walnuts

sprinkle in baking powder and salt

include flour

pour batter into loaf pan

place a few whole walnuts on top (they’re so good crunchy)

bake for 60m

Easy and so yummy. Nicco loved it, but brought up a good question, ‘when do you eat it?’ So guys, what’s your favorite way to eat it and what time of day?