How To Make Banana Bread
Find out how to make banana bread delicious moist and flavorful in no time flat. You’ll be hiding those bananas before you know it so they will get old just so you can make this recipe 🙂
I honestly don’t know anyone who doesn’t make banana bread on a regular basis. We see bananas going bad on our counter and our hands are already reaching for the flour. I’m certain this is another example to support my theory that all of the best southern dishes came about from the whole yankees-trying-to-starve us thing. 😉
How Ripe Should the Bananas Be?
The one requirement for making banana bread is that you use ripe bananas. Once the skins start to turn and get brown and freckly and the banana is a little too mushy for y’all, then it’s banana bread time. If you let them get really brown this will increase the sugar content and will make your bread even more strongly banana-flavored and sweeter.
Can I Make Muffins With This Recipe?
You sure can. Use your muffin tin to make little mini banana bread snacks to pack in lunches or to have as a quick snack. They will likely be done in around 15-20 mins so have a toothpick handy and when they comes out dry from sticking those muffins in the middle, they are ready to go.
Frosting The Loaf…
This recipe doesn’t use frosting but we do love a banana bread loaf with a butter cream frosting so you can use the icing recipe from our Carrot Cake loaf here.
Can you Freeze It?
This recipe freezes well just make sure you cool it completely, then tightly wrap it in two layers of plastic wrap or seal it with a food saver. Place the the in a freezer-safe plastic bag or container and enjoy over the next few months or give as a gift.
Recipe Ingredients:
Recipe Ingredients:- Sugar
- Bananas
- Pecans (optional)
- Eggs
- Butter
- Self Rising Flour
- Milk
- Vanilla
If you don’t have self rising flour available where you life, go to the bottom of my post on buttermilk biscuits to see how to make your own! 😀
Add extra pecans on top if you like (optional). Bake at 350 for an hour until golden brown.
Now, go hide a loaf of this because TOMORROW I am going to show you something positively SINFUL to do with leftover banana bread!
Mmm, Mmm! Enjoy it while you can, before it disappears!
Ingredients
- 2 Cups sugar
- 1 Cups milk
- 1 Cups chopped nuts optional
- 3 Cups self rising flour
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 2 eggs
- 3 bananas
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Place peeled bananas in mixing bowl, add sugar. Mix until bananas are liquefied.
- Add butter, mix until creamed together with banana mixture. Add all other ingredients and blend well.
- Pour into two greased and floured loaf pans and bake for one hour at 350.
Nutrition
UPDATE: This was posted a few years ago so here are the links to what to do with the leftover banana bread (If you have any!)
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Mindless_Rambling: hehe, I’m glad someone can appreciate my egg in air shot! Woohoo! I’m living on the edge, I tell ya!
Have you ever had banana bread before? Is it common where you live?
Just curious! 😀
Just today, while I was home for lunch, I saw that my bananas were ready to be tossed or used for something, so I was very excited to see your recipe today. Tonight or tomorrow–banana bread baking it is. I, too, can’t wait to see what we’re going to do with the “other loaf”.
(I’m a mystery lover too… )
thanks!
Now my banana bread is darker than that….and uses buttermilk. Its a 100 yr old recipe from a woman I used to care for in her home. I do believe it is def. more northwest! LOL
BUt LIKE YOU I always ALWAYS add vanilla! I am sorry but vanilla MAKES a banana bread in my opinion!! Fo sho’ LOL I have had countless people say they hate banana bread but love mine because of the vanilla I swear! hahaha
!00 year old recipe sounds like a real treasure!! KIndly post How much vanilla?
You definitely won me over with your southern dishes!
Aaaaaand… us Dutchies have bananas too, so I can totally make this!!! Hahaha.
(btw, your “egg in air” photo was marvelous…what a timing!)
Tina: YAY!! I was hoping someone would be in suspense! LOL! I promise to deliver and thanks for reading!
Flourchild: Thank you so much! Your blog is GREAT! I loved it there, but now I want blueberry pie!!
I guess I’m about as southern as they come, although whether or not this is a good thing according to others may vary from day to day ~grins~.
Love your blogs. Your sound like a true Southern girl!
Ok now you have my curiosity peaked. I cant wait to see what your gonna do with that banana bread tomorrow. Ü your loaves are so pretty and golden brown.