Ridiculously Easy Homemade Banana Bread
For the best, most flavorful homemade banana bread, the bananas need to be ripe — overripe, brown and speckled is even better. Nuts and chocolate chips are completely optional for this.
Ridiculously Easy Homemade Banana Bread
Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Cook Time: 1 Hours
Total Time: 1ours 15 Minutes
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups (195 grams) all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3 medium bananas, heavily speckled or even black bananas are best (about 1 1/2 cups mashed)
- 8 tablespoons (115 grams or 1 stick) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 3/4 cup (150 grams) packed light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup (50 grams) walnuts or pecans, toasted and chopped, optional
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips, optional
Instructions
PREPARE BATTER
- Center a rack in the oven and heat to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour an 8 1/2-inch-by-4 1/2-inch loaf pan.
- Place the pan on an insulated baking sheet or on two regular baking sheets stacked on top of the other.
- Whisk the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon together, set aside. In the bottom of a medium bowl, mash bananas into a chunky paste. Whisk the melted butter, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla into the bananas until blended.
- Switch to a large rubber spatula. Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl then add the dry ingredients in 3 parts, stirring gently until they disappear and the batter is smooth. Stir in nuts and/or chocolate chips.
TO FINISH
- Pour batter into the pan and smooth the top. Bake 55 to 75 minutes, or until a knife inserted into the center of the bread comes out clean.
- After 30 minutes in the oven, check the bread for color. If it looks like it is browning too quickly, loosely cover with aluminum foil.
- When the bread is done, transfer it, in the pan, to a wire rack to cool for 5 minutes. Unmold the bread and place right side up on the rack. Cool completely.
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