Buckingham Palace Banana Bread
Ingredients:
8 ounces (2 cups) self-rising flour
1/4 teaspoon fine salt
4 ounces (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
6 ounces (3/4 cup) granulated sugar
4 ounces (2/3 cup) golden raisins
1 ounce (1/4 cup) chopped walnuts
2 ounces (1/3 cup) dried cherries
1 pound ripe bananas (about 4 1/2 average bananas)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Spray a loaf pan with cooking spray and line with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, rub the butter into the flour and salt until only pea-sized pieces of butter remain. Mix in the sugar, raisins, walnuts, and cherries.
Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients. Mash the bananas in a separate bowl, then stir in the vanilla and eggs. Add the banana-egg mixture to the flour mixture and stir to combine.
Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake on the center oven rack until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with only moist crumbs attached, 1 hour to 1 hour 25 minutes.
Recipe courtesy of Yahoo Lifestyle and Simply Recipes