blueberry chai banana bread

By beguine

based on http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/breads/blueberry-chai-banana-bread/ and http://allrecipes.com/recipe/sour-cream-banana-bread/

Ingredients

• 4 very ripe bananas, divided
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 3/4 cup butter, melted and cooled
• 2 large eggs
• 1/3 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 teaspoons Cardamom, Ground
• 1/2 teaspoons Cinnamon, Ground
• 1/4 teaspoons Ginger, Ground
• 1/4 teaspoons Allspice (ground)
• 1 cup blueberries

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 5x9-inch loaf pan.
Mash 2 bananas in a bowl with a fork. Place remaining 2 bananas in a separate bowl with 1 cup sugar and beat the bananas and sugar with an electric mixer until creamed and fluffy, 3 minutes. Beat in melted butter, eggs, sour cream, and vanilla extract until thoroughly combined.
Whisk flour, baking powder, spices and salt together in a bowl and stir the flour mixture into banana-sugar mixture. Fold in mashed bananas and walnuts. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and tap the pan on the counter several times to remove any air pockets.
Bake in the preheated oven until bread is golden brown on top and set in the center, 1 hour and 15 minutes; rotate bread pan in oven halfway through baking. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to finish cooling on a wire rack.