Best Ever Banana Bread...really

Helpful Tip: Do NOT OVERBAKE the banana bread. I fell asleep while mine was baking and it got too dark and was a little dry. Mine baked at 1 hour and it was too long....I'll set my timer for 45 minutes next time. You want your bread to not have much brown color to it....just keep it soft and gooey.....just like Brooke's. ;)I mentioned a few posts back that Dawn's friend (and my new friend now too) named Brooke picked us(Dawn, Pine and me) up at the airport in Orlando and drove us to and from our hotel. She is just the sweetest girl ever and her twinkling smile has stayed in my memories since CHA. She's pictured on the far right in the photo above...hi Brooke!

Brooke was gracious enough to give us all a warm loaf of freshly baked banana bread as we greeted her. Each loaf was baked in individual bread pans and had a ribbon and a little tag tied onto it. Oh and a little knife to cut it with. It was such a sweet gift!

Little did we know just how sweet this gift was until I decided to share my banana bread with Dawn and Heather late one night at our hotel rooms. Little did I know that I should have hoarded my bread and locked myself in my hotel bathroom, hid in the shower tub and closed the shower curtain......just to savor this wonderful banana bread all by myself. It's really THAT good people, let me tell ya!

I HAD to make a recipe card for the BEST EVER BANANA BREAD. I know I'll be making this for years and years to come. The recipe is from Martha Stewart and I think it's the addition of the sour cream that makes this bread so.......moist.......and soft.....and kinda gooey on top.......and yummy........and moist.......get the picture?

My recipe took up a lot of space on my 4" x 6" card (fonts are posted at the sidebar on the left) so I didn't have a lot of room for embellishments. I used Papertrey Lemon Tart for my base recipe card and the Chocolate Remix patterned paper for the strip on the right. The cute Itty Bitty Bananas stamp is from Karen Lockhart, the perfect little image for my recipe card. I also added a pretty Papertrey swirl to the front of my recipe card.

The Copic Sketch marker colors I used are shown below...the three Y colors are perfect for coloring bananas, a great little trio.
HERE is the original recipe from the Martha Stewart website. You done good, Martha. I revised the verbiage a bit for my recipe card but the ingredients are all the same. My file messed up so I can't paste it here for you.....but you can easily print Martha's recipe from the website.

Thank you Brooke for the wonderful gift and recipe! I will think of you each and every time I make the banana bread!!!