Butter Pecan Banana Bread. Try and say that 5 times fast! I am not a fan of anything banana. I am allergic to the raw ones, and anything banana flavored gives me a bad case of the gags. However, my daughter loves them. But not enough to eat a whole bunch. Even though she promised, that THIS time she would eat them before they went bad. Why not buy just 1 banana you say? Because then I wouldn’t have an excuse to make the one banana thing I do love, Banana Bread.

I usually just make the original, but today I thought “What could I do to make this extra sinful?”. Well my first instinct was add butter. And after a few minutes of rummaging through the cabinets, I found two things that I couldn’t believe I had never paired before: Pecans and Molasses.

Simply mix all the original ingredients, add a half cup of pecans, and bake. While that bakes make the topping. I toasted pecans in a skillet, added butter, molasses,  and brown sugar, and a tiny bit of water. I just poured this over the top of the hot loaf when it was finished baking. And good golly miss molly it was good!!!

Topping Ingredients:

• ½ cup pecans
• 2 tbsp butter
• ¼ cup molasses
• ¼ brown sugar

Original Banana Bread Ingredients:(add ½ cup pecans for this Butter Pecan Banana Bread)

• 3-4 mashed overly ripe bananas
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 1 cup sugar
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 ½ cup all purpose flour
• pinch of salt

Bake at 350°f for 1 hour, add topping and enjoy!