Banana Carrot Bread

I think I am a connoisseur of quick breads- I LOVE a good quick bread. So when I had two super ripe bananas and a 1/2 a Costco bag of baby carrots, what did I do? Make Banana Carrot Bread, of course. I'm not sure what the exact ratio of baby carrots to regular sized carrots is, but I'm sure we went overboard. Still good. Gotta get those veggies in somehow, right?

Anyways, my hubby had a brilliant idea- we made mini loaves, and he put wax paper in the mini loaf bread pan (with a spray of Pam, of course) so I wouldn't have to break apart 2 or 3 of the loaves trying to get them out after they were baked. It was a work of genius. No mini loaves broke, all I had to do was lift up the pieces of wax paper sticking out above the bread pan, and that was that. I'll never bake mini quick breads without wax paper again. As for the taste- really good. Really, really good.

Banana Carrot Walnut Bread

2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 large bananas, very ripe, peeled and mashed
1 1/4 tsp vanilla
2 large grated carrots
1 cup chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and cloves. In a separate bowl, cream butter with sugar. Beat in eggs, bananas and vanilla. Add banana mixture to dry ingredients and stir in carrots and walnuts. Pour into greased loaf pan and bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted into center of loaf comes out clean. Put pan on a cooling rack to cool for 10 minutes. Take bread out of pan, and cool on cooling rack for 10 more minutes. Enjoy!