Banana Bread or Muffins

Kona Inn Banana Bread

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups flour (I used 1 cup whole wheat, 1.5 cups white)
  
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 cup vegetable shortening (I used margarine because that's what I had around)
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups ripe mashed bananas (about 6 bananas)
• 4 eggs, slightly beaten
• 1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts (I used sunflower seeds)
• I added about a cup of chocolate chips
  

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350.

Grease and flour 2 8x4x3-inch loaf pans (or about 24 muffins).

Stir together the flour, salt and baking soda in a bowl. In another larger bowl, mix together the shortening, sugar, mashed bananas, eggs and walnuts. Add the combined dry ingredients and stir only until the batter is thoroughly blended.

Pour into the prepared pans and bake 50-60 minutes (shorten for muffins), or until a skewer or straw inserted in the center of the loaves comes out clean, or with only a few moist crumbs. Remove from the oven and let cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then turn out on a rack and let cool completely.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/kona-inn-banana-bread-recipe/index.html