Karen's Kitchen

INGREDIENTS:
 
1 stick butter
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
2 cups flour
3 ripe bananas, mashed
2 cups chocolate chips
1/3 cup chopped maraschino cherries
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup walnuts chopped
1 teaspoon vanilla

Cream butter until fluffy. Add sugar and beat well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after adding each one. Add bananas, beating well. Then mix the chips and nuts in 1 cup of the flour. Add salt and soda to the other cup of flour. Add the salt mixture to the butter mixture; mix well. Then add the chocolate chip mixture, cherries, vanilla and beat well. Mix with a spoon. Grease 3 to 4 bread pans, depending upon the size. Fill about half full. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.