Grandma's Recipe Box: Banana-Sour Cream-Walnut Loaf Cake with Glaze

 

I love homemade banana bread!  The recipe below is good any time of the year.  However, if you love banana bread and are looking for something different to share during the Christmas season, try out this old recipe from my Grandmother's recipe box.  In her recipe below, I added a note in brackets for adjusting loaf pan size and baking time.  

Banana Sour Cream Walnut Loaf 

Ingredients:

2/3 cup margerine 
1 &1/3 cups sugar 
2 eggs 
1 & 1/2 cups ripe bananas, mashed 
2 & 3/4 cups sifted flour 
1 teaspoon baking powder 
1 teaspoon baking soda 
1/2 teaspoon salt 
1/2 cup sour cream 
1 cup walnuts

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In large bowl, cream margerine and sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Add eggs and bananas and beat well. 
4. In another bowl, sift dry ingredients together. 
5. Add dry mix alternately with sour cream sstirring into banana mixture. Then stir in nuts. 
6. Pour into greased and floured Spoon batter into loaf pan [1 - 9x5 standard or 3 - 5x3 mini].
7. Bake 45 minutes [or 30-35 minutes for minis using toothpick to test for done]. 
8. Let stand 20 minutes, then remove from pan.

Banana Glaze (optional)

Ingredients:

1 cup bananas, mashed 
1 cup sugar
2 Tablespoons lemon juice

Steps:

1. Combine bananas and sugar in pan and bring to a boil.
2. Cook over low heat, stirring for 5 minutes,
3. Remove from hear  and add lemon juice.
4. Cool and the use as a glaze on cake.