Thebestbananabread Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9x5 inch pan.
• Cream margarine and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs, then bananas. Add flour and soda, stirring just until combined.
• Pour into prepared pan and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 1 hour (or till toothpick comes out clean). Remove from pan and let cool, store in refrigerator or freeze.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. In another bowl, combine the eggs, bananas, oil, buttermilk and vanilla; add to flour mixture, stirring just until combined. Fold in nuts. , Pour into a greased or parchment-lined 9x5-in. loaf pan. If desired, sprinkle with additional walnuts. Bake until a toothpick comes out clean, 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 hours. Cool in pan for 15 minutes before removing to a wire rack.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Spray one 9x5 inch loaf pan with non-stick spray coating.
• Blend together the eggs, buttermilk, oil and bananas.
• Sift together the sugar, flour, baking soda and salt. Add to banana mixture and stir in pecans. Mix well.
• Pour into prepared loaf pan and bake 1 hour and 20 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.

Steps:

• Mash bananas.
• Add sugar, oil, eggs, sour cream, vanilla, baking soda, and flour. Mix until well combined.
• Pour into greased bread pans until 1/2 full, reserve half of batter.
• Combine 1/2 cup sugar and cinnamon.
• Sprinkle generously 1/2 of cinnamon/sugar combination onto batter.
• Pour rest of batter into pans.
• Sprinkle rest of cinnamon/sugar on top of batter.
• Bake at 350 for approximately 1 hour, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Cream butter and sugar; mash bananas, beat 2 eggs and add to the bananas with vanilla and buttermilk; mix well and add to creamed butter and sugar; sift together flour, soda and salt; add to banana mixture, beat well; pour into 2 greased and floured 9x5x3-inch loaf pans; bake 45 to 50 minutes (I find this bread needs over an hour) or until bread pulls away from sides of pan; add topping.
• To prepare Topping: Melt butter in saucepan; add sugar and milk; cook until syrupy (like honey); remove from heat and add chopped pecans; pour over bread spreading to all the corners and place under broiler until bubbly and brown.
• Watch closely (this takes around 1 minute- maybe even less!).

Steps:

• Remove odd pots and pans from oven.
• Preheat oven to 350º / 180º.
• Cream together butter and sugar.
• Add eggs and crushed bananas.
• Combine well.
• Sift together flour, soda and salt. Add to creamed mixture. Add vanilla.
• Mix just until combined. Do not overmix.
• Pour into greased and floured loaf pan.
• Bake at 350º / 180º for 55 minutes.
• Keeps well, refrigerated.

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar (by hand or mixer).
• Mash bananas and add by hand to creamed mixture.
• By hand add eggs, vanilla, baking soda, flour and salt.
• Gently stir in buttermilk and chocolate chips.
• Pour into a greased loaf pan.
• Bake at 350°F for 1 1/4 hour or until it tests done with a toothpick.
• **I find that coarsely mashing bananas is best and make sure they are over ripe for best flavor.
• I also find that doing the majority of the mixing by hand makes for better texture in the end.
• **Even though the recipe says it makes 1 loaf, I usually use 2 loaf pans or 3 mini loaf pans because it seems to yield a moister bread.
• Just adjust baking time down.
• **if you do not have buttermilk you can put 1 teaspoons vinegar into a 1/2 cup measuring cup and fill to top with milk.
• Let rest 5 minutes before adding to recipe.
• **This freezes well.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly butter one 9-by-5-inch loaf pan.
• Whisk together the flour, pecans, granulated sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon salt and nutmeg in a large bowl. Whisk together the eggs, melted butter, buttermilk, brown sugar and vanilla in a medium bowl; stir in the mashed bananas. Fold the banana mixture into the flour mixture until just combined (it's OK if there are some lumps).
• Pour the batter into the buttered pan and lightly tap the pan on the counter to evenly distribute the batter. Bake until browned and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out completely clean, about 1 hour. Let the bread cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto a rack to cool completely.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease 9X5X3" pan.
• Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time and beat well after each addition.
• In a separate bowl, sift all purpose flour, baking soda, salt, whole wheat flour. Add to creamed mixture. Mix well.
• Fold in bananas, vanilla and 1/2 cup walnuts.
• Pour mixture into pan. Sprinkle 3 T. walnuts evenly on top of batter in pan.
• Bake 50-60 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean from center. Cool for 10 minutes in the pan. Remove to cool on a rack remaining time.