The Best Banana Bread/Cake Ever

Josh and I can't decide if this is banana bread or cake. Whatever it is, it's the best and it's made with whole wheat flour so it's practically a health food. 

I'm going to share my recipe (adapted from several other recipes so now I can call it MINE ha!) because I think everyone in the world would fall in love with this bread/cake and it has the potential to create world peace. I'm just saying, try it for yourself.

(I would have put up a picture but Josh and I ate the pieces that were out already, and the rest is in the freezer to microwave throughout the week for an instant slap in the face of happy.)

Banana Bread/Cake Amazement

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened (*Note: it has to be butter, none of that margarine atrocity*)
1 1/2 cups sucanat (never heard of sucanat? Look it up. It's your new bff. I use it as a sugar replacement.)
2 eggs
1 cup mashed bananas (I use 2 bananas. I mash them up by hand, this works and tastes better if they are very ripe and mushy. )
4 tablespoons buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 3/4 cups whole wheat pastry flour (I've never tried it with just ww flour.)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon sea salt (Celtic sea salt is preferable. jk I don't have Celtic sea salt. you can buy me some, though.)
1/8 teaspoon baking soda

1. Preheat oven to 325 F. (Note: My oven gets super hot, so you might need to put yours to 350. experiment, that's what I had to do.) Grease a bread loaf pan, or brownie pan, or muffin tin, or whatever. I use the same pan I use to make brownies in, I don't know what this is called. It's glass? lol 

2. In a large bowl, cream butter and sucanat together with a mixer. It's not really going to cream like regular sugar and butter does, but it'll make the sucanat look moister, yet still grainy. 

3. Add eggs, bananas (remember, mashing by hand is the best. I don't know why. It feels cool and it distributes the banana more evenly), buttermilk and vanilla until the batter is well mixed (a lot of recipes say to mix until "just combined"...this is not one of those recipes. Mix the hell out of that batter!)

4. Add in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix until well combined (again, mix the hell out of it).

5. Divide batter into pans (or whatever) and bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes or until a fork comes out clean.

6. Lick the bowl, spatula, mixer, whatever...before washing them. Trust me, it's the best part, and don't listen to Josh; you will not get sick from the raw egg. (And if you do it could be worth it. It's delicious.)

Tell me if you make it!