Best-Ever Banana Bread. This was the BEST bread EVER! In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. In another bowl, combine the eggs, bananas, oil, buttermilk and vanilla; add to flour mixture, stirring just until combined.
This recipe makes the best banana bread ever – seriously. It is so tender, so rich in banana flavor and so, so easy to make. You don't even need an electric mixer – just a fork to mash the bananas and a wooden spoon to mix the batter together. You can cook Best-Ever Banana Bread using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Best-Ever Banana Bread
- It’s 1 1/4 cup of sugar.
- It’s 1/2 cup of butter or margarine,softened.
- Prepare 2 of eggs.
- It’s 1 1/2 cup of mashed very ripe bananas (3 to 4 medium).
- You need 1/2 cup of buttermilk or milk.
- Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla.
- Prepare 2 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour.
- It’s 1 tsp of baking soda.
- Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
- It’s 1 cup of chopped nuts, if desired.
This is honestly the best banana bread recipe ever! It's basically my easy banana bread but with brown butter, buttermilk, and roasted bananas to give the bread the ultimate flavor and texture. Brown butter adds to the nutty sweet flavor while yielding a melt in your mouth texture. We wanted great banana bread, the won't-last-til-morning, bake-for-any-and-every-occasion kind.
Best-Ever Banana Bread step by step
- Heat oven to 350°F . Grease bottoms only of 2 (8×4-inch)loaf pans or 1 (9×5-inch)loaf pan..
- In large bowl, mix sugar and butter. Add eggs,bananas,buttermilk and vanilla ; beat with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth.Stir in flour,baking soda,salt and nuts just until moistened. Pour batter into pans..
- Bake 8-inch loaves 1hour,9-inch loaf 1 1/4 hours, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Loosen sides of loaves from pans; remove from pan to cooling rack. Cool about 1 hour before slicing..
- High Altitude (3500-6500ft): Increase flour to 2 3/4 cups. In step 1,heat oven to 375°F. In step2,add 1/4 cup water with buttermilk. Bake 8-inch loaves about 1hour 5minutes,9-inch loaf about 1hour 30 minutes..
We wanted a moist, tender loaf chock full of pure banana flavor with a gentle sweetness. Remove odd pots and pans from oven. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended.
