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Ultimate Banana Bread
This is the absolute Best Banana Bread recipe made with a cinnamon-sugar crust, moist from butter and sour cream, a combination of mashed bananas and sliced bananas, and chocolate chips and walnuts in every bite! Bonus, it’s all made in one bowl!
How to Make Banana Bread
Banana bread is pretty straight forward and hard to mess up, but there are definitely some tips to achieve the best loaf possible.
How ripe should bananas be for banana bread? Use overly ripe (a lot of black!) bananas. This will deliver the best natural sweetness with plenty of banana flavor, but also provide moisture.
Thoroughly mash those bananas. This helps incorporate the bananas throughout the mixture and makes it easier to test for doneness.
Gently fold wet and dry ingredients together with a spatula for tender texture.
Don’t over mix! It can make your bread tough.
Start checking the bread at 5-10 minutes before it’s supposed to be finished cooking. When just a few moist crumbs cling to the tester, remove the bread immediately. Don’t bake it one minute longer. (Some ovens run hot!)
Test banana bread for doneness in three places: center, and both sides.
Wrap banana bread in plastic wrap while slightly warm to keep it from drying out overnight.
Servings: 8
PrepTime: 10 minutes
CookTime: 1 hour
- Appetizers and Snacks
- Breakfast and Brunch
Ingredients
- granulated sugar: 1/4 cup
- cinnamon: 1/2 teaspoon
- butter: 1 tablespoon - for greasing the pan
- bananas: 3 each - medium super ripe bananas
- granulated sugar: 1 cup
- unsalted butter: 1/2 cup - melted
- egg: 2 each - large
- vanilla: 1 teaspoon
- all-purpose flour: 1 & 1/2 cup
- baking soda: 1 teaspoon
- salt: 1/2 teaspoon
- sour cream: 1/2 cup
- walnuts: 1/2 cup - chopped walnuts (optional)
- sugar: 1 tablespoon - turbinado sugar
Preparation
- Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Whisk together the 1/4 cup sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Thoroughly grease a 9×5 nonstick loaf pan with butter and the cinnamon-sugar mixture (swirl the pan around until it’s coated. Discard excess or use for something else.
- Step 2: Mash 2 of the bananas to equal 1 cup. Slice the 3rd banana.
- Step 3: In a large bowl, whisk together the sugar and butter.
- Step 4: Whisk in the eggs and vanilla until combined.
- Step 5: Add in the flour, baking soda, and salt; stir together until just incorporated and smooth.
- Step 6: Stir in the mashed bananas and sour cream. Don’t over-mix.
- Step 7: With a rubber spatula, gently fold in the walnuts.
- Step 8: Pour the batter into prepared loaf pan and spread evenly.
- Step 9: Arrange banana slices over the top and sprinkle with the turbinado sugar.
- Step 10: Place in oven and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1 hour (start checking after 55 minutes.)
- Step 11: Cool in pan for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cook completely.
- Step 12: Slice and enjoy!