Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large bowl cream together the sugar and the butter; add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.
- Beat in mashed bananas and vanilla and continue beating until mixture is smooth.
- In a large measuring cup stir baking soda into the buttermilk and add it to the banana mixture along with the flour and chopped nuts.
- Stir the batter until it is just combined.
- Pour batter into a greased and floured 9x5 inch loaf pan and bake for one hour or until tooth pick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Transfer the bread to a rack and let it cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
- Turn it out onto a rack and let it cool completely.