Praline Banana Bread
 
Makes 1 (8½x4½-inch) loaf
Ingredients
  • ¼ cup whole buttermilk
  • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
  • ⅓ cup unsalted butter, softened
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • ¼ cup firmly packed light brown sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1⅔ cups all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon kosher salt
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 cup mashed ripe banana (about 2 medium)
  • ⅓ cup chopped pecans
  • Praline Streusel (recipe follows)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 325°. Spray bottom of an 8½x4½-inch loaf pan with baking spray with flour.
  2. In a small bowl, stir together buttermilk and baking soda; let stand for 5 minutes.
  3. In a large bowl, beat butter and sugars with a mixer at medium speed until fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes, stopping to scrape sides of bowl. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla.
  4. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, salt, and cinnamon. With mixer on low speed, gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture, beating until just combined after each addition. Beat in mashed banana; fold in pecans. Spoon batter into prepared pan, smoothing top with an offset spatula. Sprinkle with Praline Streusel.
  5. Bake until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 10 minutes. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes. Remove from pan, and let cool completely on a wire rack.
Recipe by Taste of the South at https://tasteofthesouthmagazine.com/praline-banana-bread/