Banana bread. This banana bread is moist and delicious with loads of banana flavor! Friends and family love my recipe and say it's by far the best! Because it really is the best banana bread recipe, period.
Banana bread is a "quick" bread made of very ripe bananas, sugar, butter, eggs, flour, vanilla, and a leavener. Since it is a quick bread, it uses baking soda rather than a yeast to help the bread rise as it. Banana bread that will remind you of your mom's recipe or your grandma's recipe…but even better. You can have Banana bread using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Banana bread
- You need 3 of ripe bananas (black or spotty).
- It’s of Pecans (optional).
- It’s 8 tbs of butter (1stick, 1/2 cup).
- It’s 1/2 cup of sugar.
- It’s 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
- You need 1 tsp of vanilla.
- You need 2 of eggs.
- It’s 1/2 tsp of nutmeg.
- You need 1/2 tsp of cinnamon.
- You need 2 cups of flour.
- Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
- It’s 1 tsp of baking soda.
- You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
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Banana bread step by step
- Ripen bananas (if needed, 325F, for 15-20minutes, they will be spotty or black, or if using previously frozen bananas, just thaw and they will ripen).
- Grease/butter loaf pan. (I use bakers goop, recipe in page).
- Cream sugars, butter. Add eggs, one at a time, and vanilla. (In mix bowl).
- In separate bowl mash bananas..
- In a 3rd bowl mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, cinnamon, and salt with a whisk or fork..
- Add banana mixture into butter in the mixer..
- Add dry ingredients, do not over mix..
- Bake on 300F for 25 minutes (mini loaf) —35 minutes (medium loaf) —1 hr 10 minutes (full size loaf).
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