Best-Ever Banana Bread (Honestly!) - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    Topping
    6 tablespoons butter
    10 tablespoons dark brown sugar
    3 tablespoons milk
    1 cup chopped pecans (or more, toasted)
    Batter
    1 cup butter
    1 1/2 cups sugar
    2 eggs
    4 very ripe bananas, mashed (or 1 3/4 c, the bananas have to be so ripe that they're nearly black!)
    1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract (I add 1 tblsp)
    4 tablespoons buttermilk
    2 cups all-purpose flour
    1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda (I also add 3/4 tsp baking powder)
    1 teaspoon salt
Preparation
    Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
    Cream butter and sugar; mash bananas, beat 2 eggs and add to the bananas with vanilla and buttermilk; mix well and add to creamed butter and sugar; sift together flour, soda and salt; add to banana mixture, beat well; pour into 2 greased and floured 9x5x3-inch loaf pans; bake 45 to 50 minutes (I find this bread needs over an hour) or until bread pulls away from sides of pan; add topping.
    To prepare Topping: Melt butter in saucepan; add sugar and milk; cook until syrupy (like honey); remove from heat and add chopped pecans; pour over bread spreading to all the corners and place under broiler until bubbly and brown.
    Watch closely (this takes around 1 minute- maybe even less!).

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