Nothing warms the house with the smell of deliciousness than a good old fashioned banana bread. It’s my go to for anytime my bananas turn a little brown. I’d say it’s the perfect excuse for a sweet treat, right? These also make a great gift for the holidays as well. A little twine and ribbon is all you need to spruce up your loaf to bring it to a friends house.
The Best Classic Banana Bread Recipe
I used the best banana bread recipe there is from Martha Stewarts’ recipe and made a few adjustments. Plus, I didn’t have any canola oil on hand, so I just used olive oil and actually preferred the taste. In addition to the oil swap, I omitted the nuts and coconut.
The recipe will make two loaves but instead, I made one and the rest into muffins for a quick grab and go snack. Add chocolate chips for a little-added sweetness.
Ingredients
- 3 c all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 3 large eggs
- 2 c sugar
- 1 1/3 c canola oil
- 2 tbsp vanilla extract
- 3 mashed bananas
- 1/2 c buttermilk
- 3/4 tsp cinnamon optional
- Mix ins – nuts chocolate chips, coconut (optional)
Instructions
Step One
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and then coat your two loaf pans with cooking spray.
Step Two
In the bowl of an electric stand mixer, beat the eggs, sugar and oil on medium speed until light in color.
Step Three
In a large bowl, whisk together the rest of the dry ingredients and set aside.
Step Four
Beat in the flour mixture until combined. Then add your vanilla, bananas and buttermilk. ADd in wahtever mix-ins you want here too.
Step Five
Divide the batter into the two loaf pans and bake until a toothpick comes out clean, roughly 55 minutes to an hour. Rotate the pans half way through.
Step Six
Transfer the loaves to a wire rack to cool.
Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 3 c all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 3 large eggs
- 2 c sugar
- 1 1/3 c canola oil
- 2 tbsp vanilla extract
- 3 mashed bananas
- 1/2 c buttermilk
- 3/4 tsp cinnamon optional
- Mix ins – nuts chocolate chips, coconut (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and coat your two loaf pans with cooking spray
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat eggs, sugar and oil on medium speed.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the rest of the dry ingredients and set aside.
- Beat in flour mixture, then add vanilla, banana, buttermilk and nuts/chocolate of choice
- Divide the batter into your loaf pans and bake.
- Rotate loaves half way through baking until a toothpick comes out clean (about one hour)
- Transfer loaves to wire rack to cool.
