The GüdDish Banana Bread

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Banana Bread. The GüdDish.

Serves 1 loaf · 15–20 min prep · 85–100 min total · 4 steps

Ingredients

Ingredients for Banana Bread
  • 3 ripe bananas, mashed
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1/2 tsp kosher salt

What the best recipes taught us

  • Fold the flour in until you cannot see dry flour, then stop. If you beat the batter, the loaf will be tough.
  • Use bananas that are very ripe. If they are still firm and yellow, the loaf will be bland.

Method

  1. 1
    Mashed ripe bananas with melted butter in a mixing bowl
    3ripe bananas, mashed
    1/2cunsalted butter
    3/4cgranulated sugar
    2 largeeggs
    1tspvanilla extract

    Heat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 9×5-inch loaf pan.

    Mash the bananas in a large bowl until mostly smooth.

    Melt the butter.

    Beat the melted butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla into the bananas.

  2. 2
    Banana bread batter folded with chopped walnuts
    2call-purpose flour
    1tspbaking soda
    1/2tspkosher salt
    1cchopped walnuts

    In a second bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, salt.

    Fold the dry mix into the banana mix until you no longer see dry flour. Do not beat it.

    Fold in the walnuts.

  3. 3
    Banana walnut batter in a greased 9x5 loaf pan

    Scrape the batter into the pan. Smooth the top.

  4. 4
    Baked banana bread in the loaf pan

    Bake until a toothpick in the center comes out clean, 55 to 65 minutes.

    Cool in the pan 10 minutes, then turn out onto a rack.