Sour Cream Banana Bread

Ingredients

• 4 verys ripe bananas , divided
• 1 cup white sugar
• 0.75 cups butter , melted and cooled
• 2 large eggs
• 0.33 cups sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
• 0.5 teaspoons salt
• 0.5 cups chopped walnuts , Optional
• 2 teaspoons white sugar
• 0.5 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Instructions

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 5x9-inch loaf pan.

2. 2

   Mash 2 bananas in a bowl with a fork. Place remaining 2 bananas in a separate bowl with 1 cup sugar and beat the bananas and sugar with an electric mixer until creamed and fluffy, 3 minutes. Beat in melted butter, eggs, sour cream, and vanilla extract until thoroughly combined.

3. 3

   Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl and stir the flour mixture into banana-sugar mixture. Fold in mashed bananas and walnuts. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and tap the pan on the counter several times to remove any air pockets. Stir 2 teaspoons sugar with cinnamon in a small bowl and sprinkle the cinnamon sugar over the top of the loaf.

4. 4

   Bake in the preheated oven until bread is golden brown on top and set in the center, 1 hour and 15 minutes; rotate bread pan in oven halfway through baking. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to finish cooling on a wire rack.