Banana Bread Recipe
A moist, dense bread full of banana flavor
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 60 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Yield: 3 loaves 1x
- Category: Sweet Bread
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
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- 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 cups butter
- 3 cups mashed, ripe banana – about 6 bananas
- 6 eggs, beaten
- 6 cups cake flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp salt
- 2 TBS pure vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips (optional but suggested)
- sugar in the raw for sprinkling
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350
- Grease 3 9″ loaf pans
- Melt the butter and cool
- In a medium bowl mix together the butter and sugars.
- Add the banana and stir in the eggs, one at a time.
- In a separate, large bowl stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- If adding the chocolate chips add them now to the flour mixture. Stir to coat.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and gently stir to combine. Do not overmix.
- Add the batter evenly to the three pans. (I weigh them so that they are evenly distributed for better baking)
- If desired, sprinkle some sugar in the raw over the top of the batter
- Bake in the preheated oven until browned, about 45 – 60 minutes. (I realize that is a huge margin. Look at 45 minutes. If the bread is not ready just check again every five minutes. If a tester comes out clean it is done. )
- Cool on a wire rack for about 10 minutes then remove from the pans to cool completely.
Notes
These loaves do freeze beautifully. Just wrap in wax or parchment paper, then foil or a plastic bag. Let thaw completely before serving.
Keywords: banana bread, bananas