Nothing is more comforting as a fresh out of the oven banana bread – especially loaded with blueberries 🫐

Blu’Nana Bread was a favorite of President and Mrs Ford’s and we are very fortunate to have been able to use her personal recipe.

The bread is super moist and tasty – everything you would expect and desire from a delicious banana bread.

Blu’Nana Bread

Ingredients

2 cups sugar

1 cup butter, at room temperature

4 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

4 cups sifted flour, divided

5 ripe bananas, mashed

3 teaspoons allspice ***

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 cups frozen or fresh blueberries (I used fresh blueberries)

*** since I didn’t have allspice on hand, I used a teaspoon each of ground cloves, ground nutmeg and cinnamon

Directions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease and flour 2 loaf pans.

Cream together sugar and butter.

Beat in eggs and vanilla. Fold in half of the flour and mashed bananas.

Place remaining flour less 2 Tbsp in a sifter and add allspice, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Sift and fold Into banana mixture.

Sprinkle blueberries with remaining flour and fold into batter. Divide batter into both prepared pans.

Bake for approximately 50 minutes.

Test with toothpick to determine if bread is done.