Banana Nut Bread

My supervisor brought in this yummy banana nut bread the other day that her mom made... she got the recipe from bettycrocker.com and I wanted to share as I am sure this is going to replace my other banana nut bread recipes!

1 1/4 cups sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups mashed very ripe bananas
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup chopped nuts if desired

1. Move oven rack to low position so that tops of pans will be in center of oven
2. Heat ove to 350 degrees
3. Grease bottoms only of 2 loaf pans
4. Mix sugar and butter in large bowl
5. Stir in eggs until well blended
6. Add bananas, buttermilk and vanilla and beat until smooth
7. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt just until moistened
8. Stir in nuts
9. Pour into pans
10. Bake about an hour or until toothpick inserted comes out clean
11. Cool for 10 minutes
12. Loosen sides of loaves from pans and remove onto a cooling rack and let cool completely