Nilla Wafer Banana Bread

This is fantastic sweet banana bread. The Nilla Wafers truly made the bread fantastic. This was like eating a bread version of banana pudding. It was a bit labor intensive crushing the Nilla wafers, but a Ziploc bag and a rolling pin did the trick. I love this recipe and can’t wait to make it again. Fantastic doesn’t even being to describe it. You can’t beat it nice and warm.

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 cups flour
• 35 NILLA Wafers, finely crushed (about 1-1/4 cups crumbs)
• 2-1/4 tsp. Baking Powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) margarine or butter, softened
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 medium ripe bananas, mashed (about 1 cup)
• 1/2 cup milk
• 3/4 cup Walnut Pieces, divided

 Preparation:

1. PREHEAT oven to 350°F. Mix flour, wafer crumbs, baking powder and salt; set aside.
2. BEAT margarine and sugar in medium bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until creamy. 
3. Add eggs; beat until light and fluffy. Blend in bananas. 
4. Add flour mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. 
5. Stir in 1/2 cup of the walnuts. 
6. Spread into greased 9x5-inch loaf pan. 
7. Sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup walnuts.
8. BAKE 1 hour 10 min. or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. 
9. Cool 10 min. Remove from pan

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