Needed a little baked love...

This morning my little one woke me up kind of insane early, especially after all of the Christmas festivities and wedding stuff I was excited to sleep in for a while, but no such luck. And so, we needed some baked goodness to get us going....I noticed we had some bananas and some heavy cream that were about to turn so I put them to use.

Cranberry Walnut Banana Bread

1 ¼ cups Sugar

½ cup butter or margarine (softened)

3-4 ripe Bananas (mashed)

2 eggs

½ cup Heavy Cream

1 tsp Vanilla

2 ½ cups Flour

1 tsp Baking Soda

1 tsp Salt (or omit and use Salted butter)

1 cup chopped Walnuts

¾ cup Dried Cranberries

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. I use a 9x5 pan because I like having little squares rather than slices, seems to last longer, but you can also use two loaf pans. Grease the bottom only of whatever pan you use.

With a mixer, blend the sugar and butter. Then add the bananas, eggs, cream and vanilla until well blended. Then stir with a spoon (do not use mixer for this part) in the flour, baking soda, salt, walnuts and cranberries.

Bake the 9inch pan for 1 hour and 15 minutes and the two loaves for 1 hour, or until you insert a toothpick in the center and it comes out clean.