Ridiculously Straightforward Banana Bread

That is our favourite banana bread recipe! You’ll want ripe bananas (three of them), flour, butter, eggs, brown sugar, and spices. It’s so good, you’ll need to make two loaves. So many nice evaluations! Jump to the Easy Banana Bread Recipe

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Find out how to Make the Finest Banana Bread

We’ve been making this traditional, moist, and totally scrumptious banana bread for years, and we knew we couldn’t miss the chance to share it with you. Our recipe has no surprises — you’ll want mashed bananas (3 medium bananas are good), flour, butter, brown sugar, eggs, baking soda, and spices.

We love banana nut bread, so we virtually at all times add chopped and toasted walnuts. In the event you don’t like so as to add nuts, go away them out! It’s no downside.

Another choice is so as to add chocolate chips and make chocolate chip banana bread. The chocolate banana combo is implausible. If that excites you, you may additionally need to have a look at our banana chocolate chip muffins, full of chocolate chips.

And since we’re as regards to different banana recipes, if you’re in search of one thing a little bit lighter? Take a look at our more healthy banana bread. The recipe requires decrease sugar, olive oil as an alternative of butter, and provides entire grains.

Okay, again to my favourite banana bread! We name this ridiculously straightforward as a result of it’s. In the event you can stir elements collectively in a bowl, you can also make this fast bread. Watch our video beneath to see me do it.

For the perfect banana bread, use ripe bananas. There is no such thing as a level in baking a batch of this bread except you employ ripe bananas. We wish brown, speckled bananas. They will even have some tender spots. I don’t assume bananas could be too ripe for this recipe.

So, in case your bananas are nonetheless inexperienced, wait a day or two. You gained’t remorse it. However, for those who want banana bread ASAP, listed here are a number of ideas for rushing up the ripening course of:

Find out how to Rapidly Ripen Bananas

In the event you’re sitting there with unripe bananas and have to bake banana bread, there are a few methods for rushing up the ripening course of:

• Add to a paper bag. In the event you can wait a day or two, throw the bananas right into a brown paper bag. Bananas launch ethylene (a ripening hormone). In the event you can place the bag in a hotter space of your private home, the method will go even faster.
• Bake them. You may bake bananas of their peel to ripen them for a speedy possibility. This trick works finest when the bananas aren’t totally inexperienced and are already beginning to ripen. To do it, line unpeeled bananas on a baking sheet and bake in a 300F oven till they appear shiny and black (15 to half-hour). Don’t fear if some banana flesh or juices leak out whereas they bake.

The bananas make the bread deliciously moist, candy, and flavorful. When you’re prepared together with your bananas, the remainder of the recipe comes collectively shortly.

Fast Overview of the Components

Aside from ripe bananas, you want a number of extra easy elements to make banana bread (the complete recipe is beneath):

• We use all-purpose flour, however you need to use 100% entire wheat flour or a mixture of entire wheat and all-purpose flour — we use entire wheat on this lightened up fast bread. A gluten-free flour mix additionally works. Simply needless to say altering the flour from all-purpose will barely have an effect on the bread’s texture.
• Baking soda is our go-to leavener for banana bread. Since posting this recipe, fairly a number of of you could have requested if you can also make banana bread with out baking soda and baking powder. Whereas baking powder and baking soda are wonderful leaveners in baking, they aren’t at all times interchangeable. Whereas I don’t think about baking powder an ideal substitute on this case, if you’re in a pinch, you may strive substituting two teaspoons of baking powder for the one teaspoon of baking soda we name for within the recipe beneath. The bread might not brown as effectively, and the feel might be barely totally different.
• Salt, vanilla extract, and cinnamon taste the bread and make it style wonderful.
• Butter is my favourite fats when making banana bread because it provides a luscious, buttery taste to the baked bread. Olive oil is a wonderful substitute. Take a look at our more healthy banana bread that requires olive oil as an alternative of butter.
• Brown sugar retains the bread flavorful and moist. You may swap different sugars (white granulated sugar or coconut sugar, for instance), however the texture of the bread will change barely.
• Eggs present construction and stability to the bread. We use two eggs. You may strive utilizing two flax eggs or aquafaba if you don’t eat eggs.

Find out how to Mash the Bananas

You don’t want a mixer to mash bananas — a fork works completely nice.

Mixing the Batter

You solely want a whisk or spatula for the batter. Deal with the bread batter like muffin or pancake batter and take a look at to not over-mix. You’re solely seeking to combine every thing till you now not see streaks of flour. This manner, the banana bread stays on the lighter, moister aspect as an alternative of heavy and flat.

Extra Suggestions

When baking banana bread, I count on it to come back out completely (and I’m positive you do, too). So listed here are our greatest ideas for baking fast bread:

• Grease the loaf pan and place the pan on an insulated baking sheet or two common baking sheets stacked on high of the opposite. We picked this trick up years in the past. The insulated sheet (or two baking sheets on high of one another) helps the underside of the bread bake evenly.
• For glass pans, cut back the temperature. If utilizing a glass loaf pan, cut back the oven temperature by 25 levels Fahrenheit.
• How can I inform when banana bread is able to come out of the oven? This bread wants 55 to 75 minutes within the oven. I exploit a cake tester, knife, or toothpick to check doneness. In the event you pierce it and it comes out clear, the bread is able to come out of the oven.
• What if the bread is browning too shortly? If, throughout baking, the highest of the bread seems like it’s getting too brown, cowl loosely with aluminum foil and proceed to bake till carried out.
• Cool to room temperature. Because the loaf continues to cook dinner because it cools, it’s best to permit it to chill to room temperature. I cool the bread within the pan for five to 10 minutes earlier than turning it onto a wire rack the place it might cool fully.

Storing Banana Bread

Banana bread really tastes higher on day two — that is additionally the case with our straightforward spiced apple bread! Listed here are our ideas for storing it:

• Retailer at room temperature for as much as two days.
• Retailer, wrapped, within the fridge for as much as per week.
• Freeze tightly wrapped slices in freezer baggage for 2 to a few months.

What Our Readers are Saying

In the event you don’t imagine that our recipe helps you obtain the proper banana bread loaf at residence, check out what our readers are saying concerning the recipe! Extra evaluations are within the feedback part beneath.

“Finest banana bread I’ve ever had.” – Kalia

“I made this as we speak. Undoubtedly the BEST banana bread I’ve ever made and I’ve made a variety of it. I do a variety of baking, that is scrumptious!” – Diane

“Tremendous-good! Moist, flavorful, baked very quickly! That is my new favourite banana bread recipe” – Julie

“One of the best banana bread recipe I’ve used to date and I’ve used at the very least 10 totally different recipes. Moist, not too candy, tender. Perfection!” – Eva

Recipe up to date, initially posted January 2014. Since posting this in 2014, we now have tweaked the recipe to be extra clear and added a fast recipe video. – Adam and Joanne

Ridiculously Straightforward Banana Bread

Makes 1 loaf, roughly 10 slices

Diet Per Serving: Serving Dimension 1 slice / Energy 258 / Protein 4 g / Carbohydrate 39 g / Dietary Fiber 1 g / Whole Sugars 20 g / Whole Fats 10 g / Saturated Fats 6 g / Ldl cholesterol 61 mg

Adam and Joanne Gallagher

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