Banana Bread

Ingredients:

1/4 cup unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
3 ripe bananas, mashed
1/2 banana, sliced (optional)
1/4 cup buttermilk
1 large egg
1 large egg white
1/4 cup Greek yogurt
2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9-inch loaf pan.

Combine flour, baking soda and salt in a small bowl and set aside. Combine butter and sugar in a large bowl and beat with a mixer until blended. Add bananas, buttermilk, egg, egg white, Greek yogurt and beat together until all combined. Add flour mixture to the wet mixture and mix well until combined. Fold in walnuts.

Pour batter into loaf pan. Place banana slices along the top, like so:

Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour 15 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack for about 15 minutes and then remove from pan and allow to continue to cool on the wire rack.