Banana Bread
There’s something magical about the aroma of freshly baked banana bread filling your kitchen—warm, sweet, and comforting. This classic American treat is a perfect balance of moist, tender crumb and golden, slightly crisp edges, with bursts of banana flavor in every bite.
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1½ teaspoons baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1½ teaspoons cinnamon
- 2 large ripe bananas
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 360 degrees F and line a loaf pan with parchment paper.
- In the bowl of a standup mixer, beat the butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar on medium-high speed until fluffy and significantly lightened in color.
- Add the eggs one at a time, mixing after each addition until incorporated. Mix in the vanilla extract.
- Add the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon to the bowl of the standup mixer, right on top of the wet ingredients. Mix on low speed until just incorporated.
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl, mash the bananas with a fork. I don’t like to mash them too much because I think it’s nice when you come across a chunk or two of bananas in a slice of banana bread.
- Add the bananas to the batter and mix until just combined.
- Fold in the chopped walnuts.
- Transfer the batter to the prepared baking pan and bake in the preheated oven for 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean but moist.
Nutrition
Calories: 321kcalCarbohydrates: 37gProtein: 5gFat: 18gSaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 57mgSodium: 297mgPotassium: 180mgFiber: 2gSugar: 19gVitamin A: 349IUVitamin C: 2mgCalcium: 31mgIron: 1mg
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