Homemade Banana Bread Recipe

This simple moist Homemade Banana Bread Recipe really is the best banana bread recipe you can bake.

You only need a few basic ingredients such as ripe bananas, butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, baking soda, and flour.

You’ll love this recipe as much as Dinner Rolls, Peanut Butter Bread and  Ghanaian Tea Bread Recipes!

HERE ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITE HOMEMADE BANANA BREAD RECIPE VARIATIONS TO ADD TO RECIPE.

Sweets – chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, butterscotch chips

Spices – cinnamon, all spice, nutmeg, cloves, cardamom

Nuts – walnuts and  pecans

Dried fruit – raisins, cranberries, blueberries

EQUIPMENT

Whisk or fork or hand

 Loaf pan

Parchment paper

Spatula

Large bowl

Stand mixer or hand mixer

RECIPE INGREDIENTS

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup buttermilk

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 cup butter/oil/margarine

3/4 cup brown/white sugar

2 eggs beaten

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 bananas mashed, overripe and soft

DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO PREPARE HOMEMADE BANANA BREAD RECIPE

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a loaf pan with either cooking spray or butter or Line loaf pan with parchment paper, letting the excess hang over the long sides to form a sling. Spray the inside.

Peel the bananas and mash the ripe bananas with a fork or hand until completely smooth in a bowl. Leave the bananas as chunky or as smooth as you prefer.

Melt the butter in the microwave or over low heat on the stovetop. Add the melted butter to the banana mixture and stir.

Mix into the mixture sugar, beaten egg, milk and vanilla extract until incorporated.

Measure the flour, baking soda, and salt into the bowl.

Switch to using a spatula and gently stir fry ingredients into wet ingredients until the ingredients are just barely combined and no more dry flour is visible. Do not over mix

Fold in the nuts or chocolate, if using.

Pour the batter into your prepared loaf pan. Smooth the top of the batter.

Bake until the top of the cake is caramelized dark brown with some yellow interior peeking through and a toothpick or cake tester inserted into the middle comes out clean, 50 to 65 minutes

Remove from the oven and let cool in the pan for a few minutes before removing the banana bread to a wire rack to cool.

Slice the bread and serve with any toppings of choice

ADDITIONAL RECIPE TIPS

You can use margarine or oil for the butter and almond milk, kefir, buttermilk.

Letting your bananas ripen even longer until the skins are brown and the fruit falls apart when you peel it will make your bread even more strongly banana-flavored and richer

If using nuts, toast them in the oven for 10 minutes as the oven is pre-heating.

MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE,BUT BY EVERY WORD(JESUS) THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.kjv

Homemade Banana Bread Recipe

You only need a few basic ingredients such as ripe bananas, butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, baking soda, and flour.

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Course Dessert

Ingredients

  

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup butter/oil/margarine
• 3/4 cup brown/white sugar
• 2 eggs beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 bananas mashed overripe and soft

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a loaf pan with either cooking spray or butter or Line loaf pan with parchment paper, letting the excess hang over the long sides to form a sling. Spray the inside.
• Peel the bananas and mash the ripe bananas with a fork or hand until completely smooth in a bowl. Leave the bananas as chunky or as smooth as you prefer.
• Melt the butter in the microwave or over low heat on the stovetop. Add the melted butter to the banana mixture and stir.
• Mix into the mixture sugar, beaten egg, milk and vanilla extract until incorporated.
• Measure the flour, baking soda, and salt into the bowl.
• Switch to using a spatula and gently stir fry ingredients into wet ingredients until the ingredients are just barely combined and no more dry flour is visible. Do not over mix
• Fold in the nuts or chocolate, if using.
• Pour the batter into your prepared loaf pan. Smooth the top of the batter.
• Bake until the top of the cake is caramelized dark brown with some yellow interior peeking through and a toothpick or cake tester inserted into the middle comes out clean, 50 to 65 minutes
• Remove from the oven and let cool in the pan for a few minutes before removing the banana bread to a wire rack to cool.
• Slice the bread and serve with any toppings of choice