Easy Peasy Banana Nut Bread using Banana Nut Muffin Mix

Well first let me say the best banana nut bread I have ever had can be found online under the Youtube channel run by Chef John of the Foodwishes channel....you can find it in this link :

Best Banana Bread Ever by Foodwishes Chef John


( now that all of you have gone to try that one.,..why even bother to post?....haha....Seriously that one is good and if you get a chance try it. He is funny to boot so it's a win-win)

Now back to my second-rate version of banana bread. Mine is meant for the average cook who just wants an easy peasy quick convenient not too much fuss version of banana bread. As usual I used canned, boxed or packaged items to make things less time consuming. In short, I am lazy. If you wanna make it all from scratch go knock yourself out. Not gonna hurt me a bit. If however you want to appear like you know how to cook when in fact you are clueless.....try out my version :)

I started out in the usual way.....bought some bananas....they started turning black....I felt guilty,....I thought of banana bread to ease my burdened mind....So I ran out to the store and as I was buying muffins for breakfast I saw banana nut muffin mix. This will work I thought. I mean after all, do muffins really know they are muffins and not a loaf? I think not !!

So I started by imagining any enemies I had and smushing a couple bananas....yes smushing is a technical term....haha and preheating the oven to whatever the package called for...in this case 425 degrees....

Smush those nanas like an old bosses face you could stomp on....haha

I had some walnuts I needed to use up ( hey nuts are expensive why waste them??) so I added about a half bag to my smushed bananas.....you can omit this if you want to.....

Then I opened up my three bags of muffin mix and dumped them in....ooooh such a hard step....

I try to use evaporated milk in recipes whenever I can b/c it is cheaper than milk in a jug ($4 plus tax!! Don't get me started!!)....the muffin mix called for 1/2 cup so used the whole can b/c it tends to be 1.5 cups undiluted 3 cups diluted ( so for those of you confused at this point.....use a can of undiluted evap milk in it's entirety....if you don't know what that means maybe you shouldn't be cooking....haha)

I then thought of Chef Johns yummy banana nut bread with chocolate chips and searched high and low but all I could find was a hershey bar so I busted a 3 square section into bits and added them.

Stir it well from the bottom....you want to make sure all those smushed bananas are in the mixture....

Pour into a greased casserole dish that is long and relatively big....make sure your oven is preheated 

I baked it longer than the 14-17 minutes it called for the muffins obviously....about 30-60 minutes....just keep an eye on it and stick a knife it the middle when it looks done. I took this one out, turned the oven off and put it back in for another 15 min after I took this picture. The knife in the middle should come out clean or it needs to cook a little bit longer. 

Let me just say this....it was yummy! The chocolate dissolved so use the chocolate chips but other than that, no complaints and best of all, everyone will think you can cook up a storm! Don't tell Martha White you took all the credit or you may have a fight on your hands!!....haha...Enjoy!---Tips