Banana Bread with Oat-Streusel Topping

Ok so I sometimes hate having to wait for things. People in front of me to move into traffic, baked goods to cool off, the commercials on the DVR never go fast enough. Well I decided banana bread this year. Giving a shot at new things is my game for now. Every recipe I've seen says to use brown bananas. I'm impatient with this. I have bright yellow bananas. I look online and I said screw it.. I'm gonna do it my way.

**I have to warn you.. I don't measure brown sugar. I guess when it comes to that one thing**

Preheat oven to 375°. I used 4 bananas and a granny smith apple. chopped it all up and put in half a stick of butter in pats on top with four small handfuls of brown sugar.



this is what it looked like after



Then this..

• Banana Apple mix
• 1 tsp butter (since we already used butter in the apple mix)
  
• 1 cup sugar
  
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• Pinch of salt (i just shook the shaker a few times)
• 1 2/3 cups of all-purpose flour

Method

No need for a mixer for this recipe. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). With a wooden spoon, mix butter into the mashed bananas in a large mixing bowl. Mix in the sugar,and egg. Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in. Add the flour last, mix. Pour mixture into a buttered 4x8 inch loaf pan. ( I didn't pay too close attention to the order the ingredients went in but was scared the egg would cook in the bananas, I put it in the freezer a few minutes kept stirring and added the egg after the sugar.)

I have this thing for white chocolate chips. I threw a couple of those in the middle.

I decided to add the Streusel topping to it but the recipe called for quick oats which I didn't have but my roommate happened to have some instant apple oatmeal so I just used one packet of that..

**This is enough streusel topping for TWO loaves of bread**

To make the streusel topping, mix 1/4 cup of cut-up butter, 1/2 cup flour, brown sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and oats in a bowl until crumbly. Use half on one loaf and the rest on the other duh..

Bake for 1 hour. I baked it on the rack second from the top. Cool on a rack. Remove from pan and slice to serve.

And.. finally that's what it looked like.. I'll post later what it tasted like but I have no fear in that it's good. The batter was amazing. I added the banana because I saw online that if you put apples or tomatoes with your bananas they'll help them ripen faster.. pfft. i got duped. The bag smelled good is about it. Try it and let me know..