Quick & Easy Banana Bread Recipe (Classic Banana Bread)

[Nat Quinn]

 

 

 

This easy banana bread recipe should take you roughly 10-15 minutes to prepare and clean up. Please be aware that this is an oven-baked banana bread recipe. It is not made with a bread machine.

Ingredients – Quick & Easy Banana Bread Recipe (Classic Banana Bread)

• 3 – Bananas (RIPE & large sized) – 345 grams – Use 1 1/2 cups of mashed ripe bananas to be exact.

• 8 Tablespoons – Unsalted Butter (softened) – 115 grams

• 2 – Large Eggs

• 2 Cups – All Purpose Flour – 240 grams

• 1 Cup – White Granulated Sugar – 200 grams – If you want a slightly “richer” taste, you should use 1/2 cup of light brown sugar & 1/2 cup of white granulated sugar.

• 1 Teaspoon – Vanilla Extract – 5 milliliters

• 1 Teaspoon – Baking Soda – 5 grams

• 1 Teaspoon – Baking Powder – 4 grams

• 1/2 Teaspoon – Salt – 3 grams

• Optional – 1 Cup – Chocolate Chips, Chopped Walnuts and/or Chopped Pecans

Servings – Roughly 12 slices

Equipment – Measuring cup & spoons, mixing bowl, long wooden spoon, 9 by 5 bread pan, oven mitts, silicon spatula, cooling rack and an oven.

Instructions – Quick & Easy Banana Bread Recipe (Classic Banana Bread)

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

• Mash bananas with a fork.

• Soften butter in a microwave. FYI – I semi-melt the butter for better mixability.

• Stir eggs, bananas and butter together.

• Mix in the remaining ingredients. Stir until the batter is fully mixed.

• Optional – If you want to enhance this “basic” easy banana bread, you can stir in 1 cup of your family’s favorite dessert ingredient (i.e. chocolate chips or chopped walnuts) after you have mixed the batter.

• Pour the finished batter into a nonstick bread pan. Smooth out the top of the batter within the bread pan.

• Bake in the oven for 65-70 minutes or until golden brown.

• Take out of oven and let the banana bread cool down in the bread pan for 10 minutes. Do not remove the banana bread from the bread pan during this 10 minute cool down period. Use oven mitts as the bread pan will be very hot coming out of the oven.

• After 10 minutes, remove the banana bread from the bread pan. Place the banana bread on a cooling rack in order to completely cool. This cool down may take 1-2 hours. Gently slide a silicon spatula between the banana bread and the bread pan walls if the banana bread is stuck in the pan.

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