Best Banana Bread in a Jar

Banana Bread In a Jar

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs, beaten

4 bananas, finely crushed

1 1/2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

½ cup chopped nuts

Directions

Cream together butter and sugar.

Add eggs and crushed bananas.

Combine well.

Sift together flour, soda and salt. Add to creamed mixture. Add vanilla.

1. Prepare wide-mouth pint-size canning jars or tall half-pint jars, rings and lids.
2. Prepare one pint jar or two half-pint jars for every cup of batter. I usually end up with about 4 ½ cups of batter.
3. Sterilize jars, lids and rings according to manufacturer's directions.
4. Butter the inside, but not the rim of jars.
5. Preheat oven to 325°F
6. Fill each jar half full.
7. DO NOT fill over half full of banana bread recipe batter or it will overflow and jar will not seal.
8. Place banana bread recipe filled jars evenly spaced on a cookie sheet.
9. Place in a pre-heated 325F oven for 45 minutes for pints, 30 minutes for half-pints, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. You can combine pint and half-pint jars in a batch. Number, size, and moisture in the bananas will change the baking time.
10. Remove banana bread recipe jars from oven one at a time keeping remaining jars in oven.
11. Working quickly, wipe rim, place lid and ring on jar and secure.
12. Jars will seal quickly.
13. Repeat with remaining jars.
14. When ready to serve, banana bread will slide out.
15. Once sealed these keep well in the freezer without getting freezer burn. Half-pints are great for lunches. Pints are nice for desserts.