The Best Banana Bread. The recipe is good, it's me baking the banana bread that is a work in progress! I have asked members for tips that really helped: don't over mix, lower rack so that top of bread is halfway point in oven, my loaf dish is glass so lower. Banana bread is a "quick" bread made of very ripe bananas, sugar, butter, eggs, flour, vanilla, and a leavener.
With its super-moist texture, buttery banana and brown sugar flavors, and incredibly soft crumb, this is the best ever banana bread recipe.
The best banana bread I've ever made!
I always use sour cream as the yogurty component, add bittersweet chocolate chips, and sprinkle the top with cinnamon before baking (dragging a knife through to create swirls) along with a coating of sugar for that crispiness.
You can have The Best Banana Bread using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of The Best Banana Bread
- You need 1 pinch of Salt.
- Prepare 1 tsp of Baking Soda.
- You need 1 tsp of Vanilla.
- It's 1 of Egg - Beaten.
- You need 1 1/2 cup of All Purpose Flour.
- Prepare 1 cup of Sugar (can easily reduce to 3/4 cup).
- Prepare 1/3 cup of Melted Butter.
- Prepare 3 of Ripe Bananas - Smashed.
- You need 1 tsp of PoppySeeds.
This is the BEST banana bread recipe ever! It is easy to make, super moist and bursting with banana flavor! It's made in one bowl (no mixer required)! With so many "perfect," "best," and "easy" banana bread recipes out there, it's hard to know which one really takes the cake.
The Best Banana Bread step by step
- Preheat oven to 350°F..
- With a wooden spoon mix butter into smashed bananas in a large mixing bowl.
- Mix in sugar, egg, poppyseeds and vanilla.
- Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in.
- Add the flour last.
- Pour mixture into a buttered 4x8 inch loaf pan.
- Bake for 1 hour.
- Cool on a rack, remove from the pan and slice to serve.
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