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Banana bread is a type of bread made from mashed bananas. It is often a moist, sweet, cake-like quick bread; however there are some banana bread recipes that are traditional-style raised breads. Banana bread is a "quick" bread made of very ripe bananas, sugar, butter, eggs, flour, vanilla, and a leavener. You can have Banana Bread using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Banana Bread
- You need 2 1/2 cup of mashed bananas.
- It’s 1/3 cup of butter.
- It’s 1 cup of sugar.
- It’s 2 of eggs.
- Prepare 2 cup of flour.
- You need 2 tsp of baking powder.
- It’s 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
- You need 1/2 cup of buttermilk.
- You need 3/4 cup of chopped pecans(optional).
Since it is a quick bread, it uses baking soda rather than a yeast to help the bread rise as it. How many bananas do I need for banana bread? My bananas aren't totally ripe—how do I get them to ripen faster? Banana bread is perfect for using up overripe bananas – the browner they are the better.
Banana Bread instructions
- preheat oven to 350°F.
- in a large bowl cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
- beat I mashed bananas and eggs.
- in a seperate bowl combine flour, baking soda, and baking powder..
- add flour mixture to banana mixture alternatly with the buttermilk starting and ending with the flour mixture.
- stir in chopped nuts if desired..
- place in greased loaf pan and bake for 50 to 60 minutes.
- this recipie also works great as muffins to make them muffins simply fill lined muffin cups 2/3 full and only bake for 20 minutes.
- cool loaf or muffins in the pan for 10 minutes then remove to wire rack to cool completly.
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