Banana Bread

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup butter, softened, plus more for greasing
  
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 tsp lemon zest
• 2-3 ripe bananas, mashed
  
• 2 eggs
• 1 3/4 cup flour
  
• 2 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 3/4 tsp Kosher salt
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp nutmeg
• up to 1 cup fresh blueberries, chocolate chips, walnuts, dried fruit or other mix in of choice*

Directions:

Generously grease an 8.5 x 4.5 pan and set aside.

Preheat oven to 350.

Sift dry ingredients together and set aside.

Either by hand or with an electic mixer, combine butter and sugar until creamy.  Add lemon zest until well combined.  Alternate adding dry ingredients and bananas and eggs until all ingredients are well mixed.  Fold in blueberries/chocolate chips/nuts etc. Pour batter into pan and bake for 45-60 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.  Cool on a wire rack.

bread pictured is banana-blueberry
*for a more complex flavor, toast walnuts instead of using raw