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!)
Hi, I can’t see on the comments where you said what a “stick of margarine” equals. Is it 1/2 cup like a stick of butter? Thanks!
I didn’t set out my ingredients ahead of time and followed the pictorial directions only. Which means I didn’t add the milk. The bread still turned out great! The kids loved the banana french toast too!
What the heck is ‘leftover banana bread’???
I’ve seen this comment a lot on my posts with recipes using banana bread and can never tell if it is a goodnatured joke, a judgement, or an honest to goodness question 🙂
So I’ll just answer it straight : it is banana bread that hasn’t been eaten yet.
Hey Christy! I’m thinking about making this banana bread to take to the beach, but have two questions. I want to use my little mini-loaves pans (probably 2″x3″, 8 to a pan)…how long do you think they would need to cook? And, what is the best way to freeze them (bag, foil, etc)? Thanks bunches!
I have never made them that small so I am not really sure. You would just have to keep an eye on them. You can wrap them in foil and then place in freezer bags or in plastic wrap and then in freezer bags.
do you have a recipe for kiwi bread?
I am afraid I have never tried Kiwi Bread. Will have to look into that!
OMG! WHITE LILY!!!!! i soooooooooo miss white lily since my move to maine. gonna have to make my brothers send me a care package of white lily, nothing here comes anywhere near the light fluffy quality of white lily.
and your banana bread is delicious!
Thank you Nina!! I hope you can get your hands on some White Lily soon!!
Never mind . . . I found it. Sorry!