The Best Banana Bread. The recipe is good, it's me baking the banana bread that is a work in progress! This is the BEST banana bread recipe ever! It is easy to make, super moist and bursting with banana flavor!
There are a few tricks to making the best banana bread recipe possible.
How do I quickly ripen bananas?
When baking with bananas, use ones that are ripe (or even overripe) to yield the best flavor.
You can cook The Best Banana Bread using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of The Best Banana Bread
- It's 1 pinch of Salt.
- It's 1 tsp of Baking Soda.
- You need 1 tsp of Vanilla.
- You need 1 of Egg - Beaten.
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup of All Purpose Flour.
- You need 1 cup of Sugar (can easily reduce to 3/4 cup).
- It's 1/3 cup of Melted Butter.
- Prepare 3 of Ripe Bananas - Smashed.
- You need 1 tsp of PoppySeeds.
To keep banana bread moist, let it cool completely on a cooling rack. Best banana bread recipe with overripe bananas, walnuts and brown sugar. This recipe is so easy and can be made by hands, without a mixer. This homemade banana bread is the best because it's so moist and made with yogurt.
The Best Banana Bread instructions
- 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.
I used a honey/vanilla yogurt, but you can have fun experimenting with. 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. With so many "perfect," "best," and "easy" banana bread recipes out there, it's hard to know which one really takes the cake. Is it the one with the most bananas, or the abundance of chocolate chips?