Banana Bread

Ingredients (2 loaves)

Dry Ingredients:
20 oz unbleached all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/8 teaspoon grated nutmeg

Wet Ingredients:
3 large eggs, at room temperature
1.5 oz buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 oz unsalted butter, at room temperature
4 oz grapeseed oil
12 oz turbinado (or brown) sugar
1 teaspoon Maldon salt
16 oz ripe bananas, peeled, and mashed with a fork

Extras:
5 oz toasted walnut pieces

Directions:

Sift the flour into a medium bowl, add all other Dry Ingredients, whisk together and set aside.

In a separate bowl, cream the butter, oil, salt and sugar until light and fluffy. Whisk in the egg, buttermilk, vanilla extract until incorporated. Whisk in the mashed bananas.

With a rubber spatula, add Wet Ingredients to the Dry Ingredients and fold with spatula until just incorporated, being careful not to over-mix. Fold in the nuts.

Lightly coat two loaf pans (9 x 5 x 3") with grapeseed oil. Transfer the batter to the prepared pans.

Bake for 70 minutes at 350 F. Turn the bread out of the pan and let cool completely on a rack. Wrap in foil.