I made the best, simple banana bread recipe for breakfast this morning. This is one of our favorite recipes, and it hasn’t changed much from the hand-me-down directions from when I was little. You can add more bananas if they are small – just make sure they are very ripe, and mash the bananas until there are no lumps. That is the real key to wonderful, sweet banana bread.
I have been playing with the sugar amount in this recipe, and found 2 1/2 c. is perfect. Reducing the sugar made the banana bread a little bland tasting.
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Mixing the butter and sugar very well is necessary for any recipe to come out good. Lumpy butter results in uneven distribution of ingredients.
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I add nuts occasionally add chopped nuts to the top, but not too often. I like it plain. This banana bread can be mixed up the night before and put into the refrigerator.
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Once baked, the top is sweet and crisp, and the inside moist. Try homemade spreadable butter with this.
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Delicious banana bread. You may have to cover with foil the last 15 minutes of baking.
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A Simple Banana Bread Recipe
- Total Time: 55 minutes
- Yield: 16 Servings 1x
Description
This is one of our favorite banana bread recipes. It makes two 9" x 5" loaves.
Ingredients
- 3 c. unbleached white flour
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 1/2 c. unsalted butter
- 2 1/2. sugar
- 4 eggs
- 4 large bananas, mashed well, no lumps
- 3/4 c. sour cream
- 3 tsp. vanilla
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
Instructions
- Set oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray the loaf pans with oil.
- Mix the salt, cinnamon, and flour. Set aside.
- Cream butter and sugar until fluffy, about 2 minutes.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing in between each addition.
- Dissolve the baking soda in the sour cream.
- Add the vanilla, sour cream, and mashed bananas.
- Add the flour mixture, only mixing until incorporated.
- Bake 45-50 minutes or until a knife comes out clean.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Category: Breakfast & Brunch
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 311
- Sugar: 5
- Sodium: 215
- Fat: 21
- Saturated Fat: 12
- Unsaturated Fat: 7
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 27
- Fiber: 2
- Protein: 5
- Cholesterol: 98
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Ithilwen~ You don’t like bananas!? I have to be in a mood to just eat a banana by itself.. but I love banana smoothies and what-nots 🙂 I have an email for you later too 😀
Wheatcakes~ I think our family needs a banana tree in the backyard.. I figured that we buy around 5-6 lbs. of bananas every week!
Gingerbread Stars~ 🙂 Nice to have you stop by!
~*~Jessica~*~
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