Bake and Tell: Banana Bread

Banana bread is one of my favorites because it can pass for breakfast, snack, and dessert.  It's a great save when the bananas accidentally go bad, and even better after buying bananas and anxiously waiting for them to go bad just to make this.  The best part of making this bread, next to eating it, is getting to smash the bananas!  My recipe calls for 3 bananas but if you're in a pinch, as I've been a few times, 2 bananas works just as well.  This banana bread is great sliced by itself and a spread of butter makes it that much yummier!
Happy banana bread baking :)

Ingredients
3/8 cup       shortening
3/4 cup       sugar
1/4 cup        brown sugar (shhh...my secret ingredient)
2                 eggs
3/4 tsp        vanilla
1 1/2 cups     flour
1/4 tsp         salt (or 1/8 if you're anti-salt like me!)
3/4 tsp         baking soda
3                  bananas mashed

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Spray sides of loaf pan with cooking spray and line pan with parchment paper.
3. Mash peeled bananas with a fork until smooth and soupy. Set aside.
4. Cream together shortening, sugars, and eggs.
5. Mix in vanilla.
6. Mix in dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking soda).
7. Add mashed bananas and mix until just combined.
8. Pour batter into loaf pan.
9. Bake for 1 hour.
10. Let cool, if you can wait that long! Slice, spread with butter and enjoy :)