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    Home » Easy Recipes » Baked Items

    Easy, Yummy Banana Bread!

    Published: Apr 1, 2016 · Modified: Jan 18, 2023 by Susan Moncrieff · This post may contain affiliate links · 3 Comments

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    Easy, delicious homemade banana bread!

     

    The big joke in my family is, "Hey, we need more bananas". It's because we have a plethora, all in different stages of ripeness. It's a Costco problem. I seem to go there too much. And, I can't leave without a bunch of bananas.

    Since it is still feeling a little cool outside and I have an oversupply of really ripe banana's, I'm making banana bread. This is a recipe I've had for a while and have modified to our tastes. Don't even remember where it originally came from It's one of the down to the basics kind of recipes I love. No crazy unpronounceable ingredients here!

    Banana Bread

    Ingredients:
    3 or 4 ripe bananas, mashed
    ⅓ cup melted butter
    1 cup sugar (can easily reduce to ¾ cup)
    1 egg, beaten
    1 teaspoon vanilla
    1 teaspoon baking soda
    Pinch of salt
    1 ½ cups of all-purpose flour
    ½ - 1 teaspoon  cinnamon (optional)

    Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

    Mash those bananas. I leave them a little chunky.  You can totally cheat and use a mixer to mash them!

    banana bread

    Mix in butter into the mashed bananas in a large mixing bowl.

    Mix sugar, egg, and vanilla.

    Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the flour and mix in.

    Add the flour mixture (mix your cinnamon into the flour, if using) to the wet ingredients.

    Pour mixture into a buttered 4x8 inch loaf pan.

    Bake for 1 hour. Everything bakes fast in my oven.

    I check closely once I hit about 50 minutes.

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    Cool on a rack. Remove from pan and slice to serve.

    Yield: Makes one loaf. Recipe easily doubles. Should freeze well but I've never had to 'cause it gets eaten every time.

    One of my friends told me she loves banana bread for breakfast with some peanut butter!  It really boosts the protein of this breakfast.

    banana bread

    banana bread

    Easy, Yummy Banana Bread!

    An easy, delicious scratch recipe to make homemade banana bread.  Simple ingredients makes this an easy recipe.  Uses up those extra bananas!
    5 from 1 vote
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    Author: Susan Moncrieff

    Ingredients

    • 3 or 4 ripe bananas mashed⅓ cup melted butter
    • 1 cup sugar can easily reduce to ¾ cup
    • 1 egg beaten
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
    • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    • Pinch of salt
    • 1 ½ cups of all-purpose flour
    • ½ – 1 teaspoon cinnamon optional

    Instructions

    • Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
    • Mix in melted butter into the mashed bananas in a large mixing bowl.
    • Mix in the sugar, egg, and vanilla.
    • Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over flour and mix in.
    • Add the flour mixture to wet ingredients (mix your cinnamon into the flour, if using). Pour mixture into a buttered 4×8 inch loaf pan.
    • Bake for 1 hour. Everything bakes fast in my oven. I check closely once I hit about 50 minutes. Cool on a rack.
    • Remove from pan and slice to serve.

    Notes

    A simple from scratch recipe to make delicious homemade banana bread.

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    1. Rose

      August 17, 2017 at 8:48 pm

      5 stars
      Absolutely delicious and so easy to make. Thank you for the recipe. This one is a keeper!

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    2. Tina Markson

      April 23, 2013 at 6:37 am

      First time reading your blog...how awesome are you? I'm going to try this recipe since I'm also addicted to Costco and bananas! Andrew thinks we are always feeding a tribe of monkeys around here! 😉

      Reply
      • momcrieff

        April 23, 2013 at 8:01 am

        Thanks for reading my blog! Hope you enjoy it. I'm not so awesome - just bored during the never ending Wisconsin winter.

        Reply

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