Banana Bread Recipe

If you want an easy and delicious bread you can make at home, you've got to try my banana bread recipe. You want your bacon bananas to be almost decomposing, soft, mushy and brown. Lay these out in a baking sheet and then bake them at 350 for about 10 to 12 minutes. They've totally blackened .

They're super soft and like pudding on the inside. If you want to make banana bread you do not need those mega ripe bananas. Just bake them up first.

For the dry ingredients, I want 1 3/4 cups of flour. That's 215 grams if you're using a scale. If you're not using a scale, don't forget to fluff your flour up first. You want to get it nice and fluffy in the canister and then sprinkle it in.

Use a teaspoon of kosher salt. If you're using a really fine grain salt, use half the amount.

Because the finer the salt crystal, the more you're adding for every teaspoon, in case you didn't know.

For spice, I use 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon. You could add any of your favorites to this and it'll be delicious.

For leavening, all we need is a teaspoon of baking soda. So let’s pop this in the bowl. Give this a quick whisk and we have to set it aside

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We have to wait for the bananas to get cool enough to touch. It is totally just banana jello on the inside. which is what you want for baking.

Plop those bananas in there. They smell so good.

I love this baking trick because sometimes when you're making something with bananas, you're waiting, you're like I'm waiting for those bananas to be perfectly ripe but then you forget about it.

And the next day they've gone too far or someone threw them out, in which case you're so not happy.

This way you can just use them right away. There's no waiting.

Alright, mush these up. You want to have like a nice paste. And if you baked them for enough time they're just going to mush up really, really easily. These are basically like a banana pudding.

Set bananas aside, and now we've to cream the butter and sugar together.

3/4 of a cup of brown sugar. That's 150 grams, if you're counting.

We've to add our half cup of room temperature unsalted butter here and cream this up. Then add the brown sugar. You could do this in a stand mixer if you wanted to.

If your butter is the right consistency, it's going to cream up pretty quickly. If it was like rock hard you might need to give it like maybe five or 10 seconds in the microwave at half power. Okay, break up your brown sugar a bit because there could always be lumps hiding in there. Cream it up until it's lighter in color and kind of fluffy. Brown sugar doesn't cream up exactly the same way as white sugar does but it's so worth it cause it has a wonderful taste.

Okay, it's time to add some room temperature eggs. We've to crack our eggs in one at a time.

Mix it up.

And along with that egg, we have to add a teaspoon of a nice vanilla, mix that in.

If you see your batter and it maybe starts breaking or you see a little granules, that's totally okay.

It doesn't have to be silky smooth. You could have a little bit of butter, a little bit of sugar, a little bit of banana here and there. It'll be delicious anyways.

Now we have to mix in mashed bananas. You do not have to have completely mashed bananas. I personally love having big chunks of banana that I bite into. The banana will mix in right away. So you don't even have to use that much elbow grease or anything like that.

Our last step is to add the dry ingredients and we've to fold this in by hand.

Any cake that you make is going to be so much more tender and fluffy and melt in your mouth if you don't over mix the batter. So just add the flour in. Gently fold it in with your spatula.

We have to grease a 9 by 13 inch loaf pan just really lightly with butter. This is really not a sticky batter that's going to get stuck in here, but a little butter never hurts.

You could also use parchment paper or even just a bit of baking spray.

Gracefully maneuver that batter into your loaf pan. The smell of brown sugar, butter, and bananas with a little cinnamon, you can't beat it. And we've to level it out a bit. This is going into the oven at 350, for 50 to 60 minutes. You want a skewer to come out cleanly from the center and probably springy to the touch. Shouldn't be crackling too much either. And your delicious banana bread is ready.