Cinnamon Sugar Banana Nut Bread

THIS. BANANA.BREAD. I mean coffee cake. I mean Banana Bread Cinnamon Coffee Cake. It is moist, cinnamon swirled, sinful tasting (but really not too bad - I promise) and super easy to make!

I bought extra bananas last grocery trip expecting to make loads of banana puree for Aaron. BUT it turns out he just isn't into it yet. A good friend told me "want to make God laugh? Tell him your plans!" And she couldn't be more right. Aaron has really taught me that! So I tried to give my fiance banana protein shakes every morning to get rid of them, but I still had a few very ripe bananas in my fruit basket. Naturally, I decided to make banana bread with them (mind you this was before a crazy heat wave hit us!) and added a twist! Ok, ok enough blabbering here is the recipe - enjoy!

Ingredients

4 Ripe Bananas  (the browner the better)

1/3 cup Butter

1 Egg

1 tsp Baking Soda

1 tbsp Cinnamon

1 1/3 cup Sugar/Raw Sugar

1/8 cup Brown Sugar

1small pinch Salt

1 1/2 cup Flour

1 tsp Vanilla

1/2 cup  Chopped Walnuts or Pecans

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and spray a 9x5 loaf pan with cooking spray.

2. Mix the wet ingredients (mashed bananas, butter, egg and vanilla), and add one cup of raw sugar and 1/8 of a cup of brown sugar. Next gently mix in baking soda and salt.

3. Mix in flour a 1/2 cup at a time- do not over-mix, it will be lumpy!

4. Mix cinnamon and remaining sugar together - you won't use all of it but no harm in having cinnamon-sugar around!

5. Pour half of the batter into your prepared loaf pan, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar, pour in remaining batter and cover with decent layer of cinnamon-sugar. Sprinkle nuts over the top of the cinnamon-sugar layer.

6. Bake for 55 minutes, let cool for 3-5 minutes and remove from pan... enjoy!!!