Banana Bread

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour;

1 teaspoon baking soda;

1/2 teaspoon salt;

½ teaspoon cinnamon;

¼ teaspoon nutmeg;

2/3 cup sugar;

2-1/2 T butter, softened;

1 1/2 cups mashed ripe banana (about 4 bananas);

3 T skim milk;

3 T fat-free sour cream or vanilla yogurt;

2 large egg whites;

½ t vanilla extract.

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat loaf pan with cooking spray. In a large bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Set aside.

In a different large mixing bowl OR stand mixer bowl, combine sugar and butter. "Beat at medium speed of a mixer until well-blended." Stop beater. Add banana, milk, sour cream, and egg whites. Resume beating until well combined.

Pour flour mixture into banana mixture and beat until everything is well-blended. 

Pour batter into loaf pan. Bake 60 or 70 minutes, or until loaf passes the toothpick test. (Insert a toothpick in the middle of the bread. If it comes out clean, you're golden.) Remove from oven. Let sit for 10 minutes on a wire rack. Pry bread from pan and let it cool totally on that same wire rack. For best flavor, wrap in tin foil and let sit overnight.