Best Blue Ribbon Banana Bread Recipes

Mary's Blue Ribbon Banana Bread image

Provided by Mary Louise

Time 1h20m

Number Of Ingredients 11

Steps:

1. Sift dry ingredients together.
2. In a large bowl cream butter and sugar well.
3. Add eggs and beat well until light and fluffy.
4. Add vanilla.
5. Mix banana pulp with sour cream.
6. Add pulp alternately with dry ingredients to butter, sugar, and eggs mixture on slow speed.
7. Scrape sides as needed.
8. DO NOT OVER BEAT. Beat only until combined. I then stir with a wooden spoon to make sure it is all combined.
9. Grease and flour a loaf pan, 9X5X3. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes.
10. Test with a cake tester. Do not test in the crack. Test off to the side. It should come out clean, but be careful not to over bake. You want a loaf of moist banana bread.

Blue Ribbon Banana Nut Bread image

Provided by Audra LeNormand

Time 1h10m

Number Of Ingredients 10

1 stick butter, softened
2 c sugar or sugar substitute ( splenda )
6 bananas ( ripe & mashed )
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1/2 c pecans, in pieces
1/2 c walnut pieces
2 Tbsp vanilla extract ( mexican vanilla is best )
4 c all purpose flour
3 eggs

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Mix together butter, sugar, eggs, and mashed bananas.
3. In another bowl combine flour, baking soda and salt.
4. Combine both mixtures and add vanilla and nuts. Mix thoroughly. Pour into 2 well greased bread pans.
5. And bake for an hour at 350 degrees. To test stick tooth pick into center and if it comes out clean it's done.
6. Cooks Note: Being Diabetic I've made it with Splenda and it's outstanding.

Blue-Ribbon Banana Bread Recipe - (3.7/5) image

Provided by mitzzy

Number Of Ingredients 11

1 3/4 cups plus 2 Tbs. all-purpose flour
1 1/3 cups granulated sugar
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
3/4 tsp. salt
1 cup chopped toasted walnuts or pecans
1 cup mashed banana (about 2 medium bananas, the blacker, the better)
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 cup plain yogurt (low-fat is fine)
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Steps:

Adjust the rack in the lower third of the oven and heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray. Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a large bowl. Stir in the walnuts. Combine the banana, eggs, yogurt, oil and vanilla; add to the flour mixture. Stir until just combined. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour, or until a cake tester inserted in the loaf comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in the pan, then turn the loaf out onto a rack to cool completely.

BLUE-RIBBON BANANA BREAD image

Yield 1 loaf

Number Of Ingredients 23

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Blue-Ribbon Banana Bread
LisaWaddle Posted: October 7th, 2009
by Lisa Waddle
A recipe I concocted for a county fair baking contest when I was a teenager, I still crave this well-worn recipe today.
Serves/Yields: yields 1 loaf
ingredient discovery
Ingredients all-purpose flour baking soda baking powder more more
eggs granulated sugar plain yogurt pure vanilla extract bananas vegetable oil walnuts table salt
1 3/4 cups plus 2 Tbs. all-purpose flour
1 1/3 cups granulated sugar
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
3/4 tsp. salt
1 cup chopped toasted walnuts or pecans
1 cup mashed banana (about 2 medium bananas, the blacker, the better)
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 cup plain yogurt (low-fat is fine)
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Steps:

Adjust the rack in the lower third of the oven and heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray. Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a large bowl. Stir in the walnuts. Combine the banana, eggs, yogurt, oil and vanilla; add to the flour mixture. Stir until just combined. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour, or until a cake tester inserted in the loaf comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in the pan, then turn the loaf out onto a rack to cool completely.