The Straw To My Berries: Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread

Hello everyone (or just those few people who actually read this :)). I've been sick and literally lost my ability to taste for a whole week so that really hindered my desire to do any recipe exploration. But, I am back on it now. I had a few "too ripe to eat" bananas laying around this weekend so decided I would put them to good use. I wanted to do something other than your typical banana bread recipe and found this one that is a little unique. Can you find the cinnamon swirl in my pictures? It turned out very good, I would definitely make it again. Best of all, you should already have most ingredients in your pantry.

Ingredients

3 over-ripe bananas, smashed up
1/3 cup melted butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
dash of salt
1 1/2 cups flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 Tbs cinnamon

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350. Butter and four a loaf pan, I used a 9 X 5 size.
2. Mix bananas, butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla together. Sprinkle baking soda and salt around on
top of the banana mixture. Then gently stir in flour. Be careful not to over-mix!
3. In a small dish, mix together the 1/3 cup sugar and 1 Tbs cinnamon.
4. Add 1/2 of the batter to the loaf pan and then sprinkle a little more than half of the
cinnamon-sugar mixture all over the batter in the pan. Add the rest of the batter, and then
sprinkle the leftover cinnamon-sugar on top.
5. Bake for 50-60 minutes.