Best Damn Banana Bread
Bananas for Bread
Did I get your attention? Ok, it may not be the best damn banana bread recipe as there are probably millions, but it is really yummy and very easy to make! How easy? The kids made this bread in pre-school. They would smoosh the bananas, mash the butter and sugar together and crank the sifter, and with a little (ok, a lot) of help, stir and pour the batter into the muffin tins. Over the years we have played with the recipe and added different nuts, chocolate chips, blueberries, dried apricots or Nutella to the batter. It can be baked in a loaf pan or in muffin tins, your choice. It really is simple & delicious and we have Teacher Heidi to thank for the recipe!
Best Damn Banana Bread
Simple and delicious banana bread from my kids' pre-school days.
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 6 ripe bananas mashed
- 4 beaten eggs
Dry Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp. Baking soda
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Stir together flour, salt and baking soda and set aside.
- Cream butter and sugar until well blended, it does not have to be light and fluffy since you want some density to your bread. Beat in eggs one at a time.
- Add flour mixture and bananas to butter-egg batter alternating dry ingredients with bananas, begin with third of the flour mixture, then half of the banana, third of flour, the remaining half of bananas and end with remaining dry ingredients. Honestly, in a pinch, just dump it all in at once and stir well to combine completely. Should be fine.
- For muffins, line 2-12 cup muffin tins with paper liners or butter and flour cups. Fill about 2/3 full. Bake for approximately 20 minutes or until tester comes out clean.
- For loaf bread, use 2 buttered and floured 9x5 loaf pans and fill equally with batter. Bake 45-55 minutes or until tester comes out clean. The top of bread will be fairly dark when done. Cover top with tin foil if the bread begins to brown too much. Remove from oven and allow to cool.
- Makes 2 loaves or 2 dozen muffins
Notes
Be creative! Add 1/2 cup chocolate chips to batter and/or chopped toasted pecans or fresh blueberries. For the bread in the photos, 3 heaping teaspoonfuls of Nutella were plopped and swirled into the batter before baking. Recipe can be halved.
5 Replies to “Best Damn Banana Bread”
LOVE THIS RECIPE – it’s my go to!!! Making it right now 🙂
Awww, thank you!!!
This is my go-to recipe whenever I have ripe bananas. It’s so easy that I’ve made it in my college dorm room. I like to add chocolate chips or Nutella to the bread. It adds that extra sweetness that puts this banana bread over the top
I was excited to try this recipe after the author said she preferred it to the Midwest Made banana bread recipe (which is a stunning recipe. My family will eat it because we don’t want to waste food, but I won’t be making it again. It was far far too sweet for our taste.
I’m so sorry it didn’t work out for you! Just to double-check I went back and looked at both recipes again and they contain roughly the same amount of sugar per loaf. You could perhaps cut down the sugar a bit (10-20% conservatively) and not affect the texture of the bread or add a bit of espresso powder (1tsp) to enhance the banana and take the edge off the sweetness. Thanks for trying it though!