This weekend, I realized that our fruit bowl had some brown bananas in it, so, I decided to make banana bread with them! Personally, I don’t love making banana bread. The mushy bananas gross me out, but it tastes so good in the end, so I’ve learned to handle it. My favorite thing to add to banana bread is walnuts, so I added about 1/2 cup. I also attached the recipe below, along with some tips to make your banana bread really stand out!
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Butter a 9 x 5 x 3 inch loaf pan. Cream the sugar and butter in a large mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. In a small bowl, mash the bananas with a fork. Mix in the milk and cinnamon. In another bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add the banana mixture to the creamed mixture and stir until combined. Add dry ingredients, mixing just until flour disappears. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Set aside to cool on a rack for 15 minutes. Remove bread from pan, invert onto rack and cool completely before slicing. Spread slices with honey or butter or serve with ice cream.
Ways to Make Even Better Bread
Add in chocolate chips before baking
Add in slices of banana before baking
Add in nuts (walnuts are my favorite!) before baking
Before mashing the bananas, roast them in the oven sprinkled with sugar to add in a caramelized flavor
Swirl Nutella into the batter
Add coconut for a tropical flavor
To make it healthier, substitute out butter and flour for whole-wheat flour and coconut oil
Hope you will try out some of these! Enjoy!
Hope you will try out some of these! Enjoy!