Banana Bread Gets A Glow Up-Sparkling Banana Bread

I have made a lot of banana bread in my day. I used to make about a loaf a week when my son was in high school. I would make it at night, and it would disappear by the morning. Banana bread is a family favorite. I once made a banana bread for my son to take on the flight back to college, but I made the mistake of wrapping the loaf in aluminum foil and it caused him to get stopped in the security line. In the future I will pack it a different way. We were delighted to be featured in Samin Nosrat's new cookbook Good Things and she recommended our organic vanilla extract.  With my love for banana bread, I knew I had to try it. Reading her cookbook is like getting a hug from a good friend, I would recommend it. It is such fun idea to bake banana bread in a 8-inch cake pan and I loved the sparkly top for the sugar topping.

Adapted from the recipe Sparkling Banana Bread from Samin Nosrat

1 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp  salt

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

3 mashed ripe bananas

3/4 cup brown sugar

2/3 vegetable oil

1/2 buttermilk

2 tsp Vanilla Bean Project Organic Vanilla Extract

2 eggs

For the topping

1/4 cup sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp flaky sea salt

1 banana

Spray a 8-inch baking pan with nonstick spray.  Whisk together the dry ingredients. Mix the bananas, brown sugar, oil, vanilla extract and eggs. Mix the banana mixture with the dry ingredients and pour into prepared pan. Mix all the topping ingredients together and sprinkle on top of cake. Thinly slice banana lengthwise and place on top of cake. Bake for 50 minutes.  Delicious for breakfast, a snack with coffee or dessert.