If you want an easy and delicious bread you can make it home you’ve got to try my banana bread recipe

 In this post I’ll show you my favourite banana bread recipe.

Ingredients

• 1 and 3 quarter cups of flour (215 grams)
• 1 teaspoon of kosher salt
• ½ teaspoon of ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• ¾ cup of brown sugar packed tightly (150 grams)
• ½ cup of room temperature unsalted butter
• 2 large room temperature eggs
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla
• 3-4 ripe bananas

Instructions

1. Prepare the bananas

These guys are peak ripeness for eating but not for baking you want your baking bananas to be almost decomposing Soft, mushy and brown.
Lavy’s out in a baking sheet and then bake them at 350 for about 10 to 12 minutes.
I’m going to show that looks like right now They’ve totally blackened they’re super soft and like putting on the inside. If you want to make classic cinnamon swirl banana bread you do not need those mega right bananas just bake them up first.

My bananas are cold enough to touch and look at this 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.

All right 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 you can see These are basically like as banana pudding. Setting my bananas aside.

2. Mix dry ingredients

For the dry ingredients I want 1 and 3 quarter 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.
Using 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’m using half a 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 that in there give this a quick whisk And we’re going to set it aside.

3. Cream butter and sugar

now we’re going to cream the butter and sugar together.
Something so pleasing about opening up a new package of brown sugar I think it’s the promise of knowing there’s not any giant brown sugar rocks. If you’re watching this in the UK, I’m fairly certain brown sugar is the same as musk of auto sugar But you can let me know in the comments three quarters of a cup of brown sugar packed tightly That’s 150 grams if you’re counting.
We’re going to add our half cup of room temperature unsalted butter here and cream this up then add the brown sugar.

Okay, you could do this in a stand mixer if you wanted to If your butter is the right consistency, it’s in a cream up pretty quickly if it was like rock hard You might need to give it like maybe five or ten seconds in the microwave at half power.
Okay, break up your brown sugar a bit because even though I opened a fresh bag 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 because that’s a wonderful taste.
Okay, I’m going to scrape this bowl down.

4. Add eggs and vanilla

then it’s time to add some room temperature eggs We’re going to crack our eggs in one at a time mix it up.
And along with that egg, I’m adding a teaspoon of an ice vanilla. This is something I wish you could smell right now So good Let’s mix that in.
If you see your batter and it maybe starts breaking or you see the little granules 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.

5. Mix in mashed bananas

now I’m going to mix in my mashed bananas. You do not have to have Completely mashed bananas. I personally love having big chunks of banana that I bite into All right, this is so fun to make and I actually love making this with my kids. It’s one of their favorite things to eat for a snack.
The banana will mix in right away So you don’t even have to use that much elbow grease or anything like that And if you look closely here, you could see all these little chunks of banana. This isn’t gonna be so delicious.

6. Fold in dry ingredients

Our last step is to add the dry ingredients and we’re going to fold this in by hand.
Any cake that you make, or even an easy homemade chocolate bread recipe, isn’t it 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 It’s gonna be until it’s just combined.
You could definitely make this in a stand mixer or keep going with your electric hand mixer But I love doing this by hand just because I really get a sense for where the batter is at And I know it’s gonna be just perfectly mixed kind of by more intimate relationship with your baked good.

7. Bake the banana bread

I’m greasing a nine by 13 inch loaf pan just really lightly with butter This is really not a sticky batter that’s gonna get stuck in here But a little butter never hurts You could also use parchment paper or even just a bit of baking spray.
Great’s fully in the new for that batter into your loaf pan Oh my gosh the smell of brown sugar butter and bananas with a little cinnamon You can’t beat it and we’re just gonna level it out a bit.
This is going into the oven 350 for 50 to 60 minutes You want to skewer to come out cleanly from the center and probably springy to the touch Shouldn’t be crackling too much either.
In you go. I think someone wants to treat You may oh my gosh how does it smell Is it very delicious? Uh Oh.

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