Banana Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

Dry mix
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 (3 1/2 ounce) box instant vanilla pudding (or your favourite ie butterscotch)
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Wet mix
1 cup ripe banana, mashed
2/3 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (if changing the pudding flavour, you can change the extract also)
1/2 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
1/4 cup dried banana chips, break pieces
3/4 cup toasted nuts, chopped (walnut, pecan etc , I set aside alittle of each to top bread)

Preparation

Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Lightly butter a 1 loaf baking pan (I keep a baggie of my empty butter wrappers in the fridge for ease of buttering any pan) Combine well the dry mix in a large plastic bag.
With a hand mixer combine wet mix in a large mixing bowl, blending well.
Pour increments of dry mix into wet mix, hand stirring each addition.
Add banana chips and toasted nuts to mixture, stirring well.
Top with chip& nut mix you may have set aside.
Bake for 1 hour- 1 hour 15 minutes or when a toothpick inserted, comes out clean.
(loaf becomes dark golden) Cool on a wire rack.
Remove from pan when cool and wrap.
Hide loaf well.