Best Banana Bread Recipe

Name: Best Banana Bread
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 1 9-inch loaf or three small loaves
Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour; 3/4 cup sugar; 3/4 tsp baking soda; 1/2 tsp salt; 1 1/4 cup toasted walnuts, chopped course {optional}; 4 very ripe, soft darkly speckled large bananas mashed well; 2 eggs, beaten lightly; 6 Tbsp butter, cooled and melted; 1/4 cup plain yogurt {you can substitute Greek yogurt}; 1 tsp vanilla extract; For the Topping; 3 Tbsp cold butter; 3 Tbsp flour; 3 Tbsp sugar

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This is the best banana bread recipe I’ve found. Moist and delicious every time! And it’s infused with just the right amount of banana flavor. Homemade banana bread really is the best!

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Best Banana Bread Recipe

There’s nothing better than the smell of banana bread swirling around your kitchen as it bakes in the oven. My whole family loves banana bread, but didn’t like it dry and crumbly. Problem solved with this recipe! Not only is it soft and tender, it has the perfect amount of banana flavor, so it really is the best – a yummy loaf of goodness.

Three things that are key for delicious and moist banana bread:

Good quality butter
Ripe, I mean really ripe bananas
The topping {don’t skip this step, it’s worth it}

I find it’s perfectly okay to freeze the bananas and use them when it’s convenient. I toss them in the freezer when they get brown, and then use them whenever the urge for banana bread strikes!

This recipe can be made in one 9-by-5-Inch Loaf Pan or 3 small. Sometime when giving them as gifts, I go for the small disposable kind as shown here…then I can keep one for the family 😉

Best Banana Bread

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 55 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour, 10 minutes

Yield: 1 9-inch loaf or three small loaves

Best Banana Bread

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/4 cup toasted walnuts, chopped course {optional}
4 very ripe, soft darkly speckled large bananas mashed well
2 eggs, beaten lightly
6 Tbsp butter, cooled and melted
1/4 cup plain yogurt {you can substitute Greek yogurt}
1 tsp vanilla extract

For the Topping

3 Tbsp cold butter
3 Tbsp flour
3 Tbsp sugar

Instructions

Adjust oven rack to lover-middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour bottom only of regular loaf pan, or grease and flour bottom and sides of nonstick loaf pan.
Whisk four, sugar, baking soda, salt, and walnuts if using together in a large bowl and set aside.
Mix mashed bananas, yogurt, eggs, butter, and vanilla with wooden spoon in medium bowl. Gently fold banana mixture into dry ingredients with rubber spatula until just combined. Don't over mix.
Prepare the topping by mixing the flour and sugar in a small bowl. Then add the butter and combine it into the flour mixture by chopping it into small bits.
Place batter into prepared loaf pan and add topping evenly over top and bake until loaf is golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean - about 50-55 minutes.
Cool in pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire rack to cool the rest of the way.
Serve warm or at room temperature.

Notes

This recipe freezes well.

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Banana Bread Recipe Ideas

If you’re feeling chocolatey, you can cut back on the sugar a bit, and add 3/4 cup chocolate chips.

This bread is also good if you make it into an orange spice loaf – follow the recipe, but add 1 tsp ground cinnamon, 1/4 tsp nutmeg, and 2 Tbsp grated orange zest to dry ingredients. Mmmm, delicious!

Happy baking!

You may also like this recipe for moist and delicious Pumpkin Bread.

Or this recipe for Oatmeal Bars.

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