Best Ultimate Banana Bread Recipes

ULTIMATE BANANA BREAD RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Grease a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray. Line the pan with parchment paper, leaving some overhang on the long sides so it will be easy to lift out the bread, and spray again.
• Add the butter to a medium nonstick pan over medium heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the butter turns amber brown and smells nutty, about 3-4 minutes. Watch carefully so the butter does not burn. Remove the pan from the heat and set aside to cool for 10-15 minutes.
• Add cooled brown butter and brown sugar to a large bowl. Beat with an electric hand mixer on medium speed until evenly combined, about 1 minute. Add the egg and beat until light and fluffy, 3-4 minutes.
• In a medium bowl, combine the mashed bananas, sour cream, and vanilla and mix with a rubber spatula until well combined.
• In a separate medium bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon.
• Alternate adding the flour mixture and banana mixture to the butter mixture, starting and ending with flour and folding with a rubber spatula between each addition until just incorporated. Fold in the chocolate chunks.
• Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and smooth with an offset spatula, then sprinkle the turbinado sugar on top.
• Bake the banana bread until golden brown and a toothpick or cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean, 60-70 minutes. Set the loaf pan on a wire rack to cool for at least 1 hour, then lift out the banana bread and slice.
• Enjoy!

ULTIMATE BANANA BREAD FROM AMERICA'S TEST KITCHEN SEASON RECIPE

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• 11: Coffee Break Sweets PRINT PAGESHOPPING LIST WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS: Recipes for ultimate banana bread abound, but because they include an overload of bananas for flavor, the bread's texture is often soggy. We wanted a moist, not mushy, loaf that tasted of banan...(more) INSTRUCTIONS 1. Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 8½ by 4½-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray. Whisk flour, baking soda, and salt together in large bowl. 2. Place 5 bananas in microwave-safe bowl; cover with plastic wrap and cut several steam vents in plastic with paring knife. Microwave on high power until bananas are soft and have released liquid, about 5 minutes. Transfer bananas to fine-mesh strainer placed over medium bowl and allow to drain, stirring occasionally, 15 minutes (you should have ½ to ¾ cup liquid). 3. Transfer liquid to medium saucepan and cook over medium-high heat until reduced to ¼ cup, about 5 minutes. Remove pan from heat, stir reduced liquid into bananas, and mash with potato masher until fairly smooth. Whisk in butter, eggs, brown sugar, and vanilla. 4. Pour banana mixture into flour mixture and stir until just combined with some streaks of flour remaining. Gently fold in walnuts, if using. Scrape batter into prepared pan. Slice remaining banana diagonally into ¼-inch-thick slices. Shingle banana slices on top of either side of loaf, leaving 1½-inch-wide space down center to ensure even rise. Sprinkle granulated sugar evenly over loaf. 5. Bake until toothpick inserted in center of loaf comes out clean, 55 to 75 minutes. Cool bread in pan on wire rack 15 minutes, then remove loaf from pan and continue to cool on wire rack. Serve warm or at room temperature. TECHNIQUE DO THE RIPE THING Don't even think of making banana bread with anything less than very ripe, heavily speckled fruit-unless you're fine with a bland loaf. As bananas ripen, their starch converts to sugar at an exponential rate. In lab tests, we found heavily speckled bananas had nearly three times the amount of fructose (the sweetest of the sugars in fruit) than less spotty bananas. (The exact percentage will vary from fruit to fruit.) But the impact of ripeness only goes so far: We found little difference in sweetness between loaves baked with completely black bananas and those made with heavily speckled ones. TOO SOON 1.8% FRUCTOSE A lightly speckled banana has only a little fructose, the sweetest sugar in fruit. JUST RIGHT 5.3% FRUCTOSE A heavily speckled banana has a lot more fructose.

COOK'S ILLUSTRATED ULTIMATE BANANA BREAD RECIPE

Steps:

• 1. Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 8½ by 4½-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray. Whisk flour, baking soda, and salt together in large bowl. 2. Place 5 bananas in microwave-safe bowl; cover with plastic wrap and cut several steam vents in plastic with paring knife. Microwave on high power until bananas are soft and have released liquid, about 5 minutes. Transfer bananas to fine-mesh strainer placed over medium bowl and allow to drain, stirring occasionally, 15 minutes (you should have ½ to ¾ cup liquid). 3. Transfer liquid to medium saucepan and cook over medium-high heat until reduced to ¼ cup, about 5 minutes. Remove pan from heat, stir reduced liquid into bananas, and mash with potato masher until fairly smooth. Whisk in butter, eggs, brown sugar, and vanilla. 4. Pour banana mixture into flour mixture and stir until just combined with some streaks of flour remaining. Gently fold in walnuts, if using. Scrape batter into prepared pan. Slice remaining banana diagonally into ¼-inch-thick slices. Shingle banana slices on top of either side of loaf, leaving 1½-inch-wide space down center to ensure even rise. Sprinkle granulated sugar evenly over loaf. 5. Bake until toothpick inserted in center of loaf comes out clean, 55 to 75 minutes. Cool bread in pan on wire rack 15 minutes, then remove loaf from pan and continue to cool on wire rack. Serve warm or at room temperature.

ULTIMATE SOURDOUGH BANANA BREAD | THE CLEVER CARROT

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 360 F. Lightly coat three 7x3x2 mini loaf pans or one 9×5-inch loaf pan with butter. Add the bananas, sugar, and vanilla to a bowl. Cream with a hand held mixer or stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, about 30 seconds to 1 minute (some small lumps of banana are okay). Add the eggs, one at a time until fully incorporated. Add the sourdough starter. Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt together in a separate bowl. Working in batches, add this to the banana mixture. Add the milk and oil and mix until just combined. Do not over do it; the banana bread will be tough. Pour the batter into the prepared pan(s). If using the mini loaf pans, place them onto a baking sheet and transfer to the oven. Bake for 45 minutes (for the mini loaf pans) or 60- 65 minutes (for the standard 9×5-inch pan), until rich golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean. Cover with foil if the loaf browns too quickly. Cool in the pan for 20 minutes, and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Serve with powdered sugar for a nice touch!

SUPER EASY ULTIMATE BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease loaf pan (or muffin tin!).
• Mix butter, eggs, and sour cream in one bowl, and salt, flour sugar, and baking soda in another bowl. Then mix them together.
• Mash up the bananas and add them to the mixture with the pecans. Put everything in the loaf pan.
• Bake at 350 for an hour and 15 minutes. Maybe less for muffins, they are still in the oven :P.

NANCY'S - ULTIMATE DOUBLE BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 2 regular bread pans. In a large bowl, mix sugar and butter together.
• ADD eggs, bananas, buttermilk and banana flavoring to the sugar butter mixture. Beat with an electric mixer till smooth. ***Stir in salt and baking soda..to the above mixture.
• Pour batter into the prepared pans. Bake 8 inch pans for 1 hour. Bake 9 inch pans 1- 1.4 hours. Insert a toothpick into the center.. if it comes out clean...you loaf is done. ( I use a wooden chop stick, the pointed end.)
• Cool 10 minutes in the pan, Loosen the sides of your bread in the pans, then remove and turn out onto a wire rack to cool. Cool before slicing.
• Now please enjoy your bread... and later it is great toasted,and buttered....YUM! Picture of bananas in the freezer...for now....LOL

ULTIMATE BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Spray an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 loaf pan with non-stick spray.
• Whisk together flour, soda and salt in a large bowl.
• Peel 5 bananas and place in a bowl. Cover with plastic wrap, poke several holes, and microwave 5 minutes until bananas are soft and release water. Dump into a strainer set over a sauce pot and let stand about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. You should have 1/2 to 3/4 c liquid.
• Transfer bananas to a bowl. Boil collected liquid over medium-high heat, until reduced down to 1/4 cup. Add syrup back to bananas and mash with a potato masher. Whisk in butter, eggs, brown sugar and vanilla.
• Pour wet ingredients over dry ingredients. Stir until just barely combined, with a few streaks of flour showing. Add nuts and fold gently.
• Transfer batter to prepared pan. Slice remaining banana into 1/4" slices on the bias. Arrange banana slices, overlapping, down the two long edges of the pan. Sprinkle top of banana slices and batter with sugar.
• Bake in preheated oven, 55-75 minutes, until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes, then remove from pan and let rest on a rack until completely cool. Tastes best the day its made, but will last up to 3 days if tightly wrapped in plastic wrap.

ULTIMATE BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat Oven to 350 degrees.
• Adjust rack to middle. Spray Loaf pan with non-stick spray.
• Whisk flour, baking soda and salt together in a large bowl.
• Place five bananas in a extra large glass or other microwave safe bowl, cover with plastic wrap and cut several steam vents in plastic with a paring knife. (NOTE: Use the biggest bowl you have the first time I did this the juice went all over my microwave, even though I had plastic wrap on my bowl.) Microwave on High until the bananas are soft and have released liquid, just about 5 minutes *may be less depending on your microwave wattage*. Transfer bananas to a fine mesh drainer placed over a medium pot and allow to drain stirring and mashing the bananas occassionally, 15 minutes (you should end up with around 1/2 to 3/4 cup of liquid).
• Cook the liquid in the pot over medium-high heat till reduced to about 1/4 cup, takes about 5 minutes. Remove the pot from heat , stir reduced liquid into the bananas and mash with a potato masher until fairly smooth. Whisk in the eggs and butter, brown sugar and vanilla.
• Pour the banana mixture into flour mixture and stir until just combined with some streaks of flour remaining. You don't want to "over-mix" or it will make it tough. Gently fold in walnuts (optional).
• Scrape batter into prepared pan. Slice remaining banana onto top (like shingles on a roof) layered leaving a 1 1/2 inch space in the very middle. Sprinkle granulated sugar evenly over loaf.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 50 - 60 minutes.

COOKS ILLUSTRATED ULTIMATE BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• 1. oven 350 and spray 8 1/2 X 4 1/2 pan Whisk flour, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. 2. place 5 bananas in a microwave safe bowl; cover with plastic and cut several steam vents. Microwave on high until bananas are soft and have released liquid, about 5 minutes. Transfer bananas to fine-mesh strainer placed over medium bowl and allow to drain stirring occasionally, 15 minutes(1/2-3/4 liquid) 3. Transfer liquid to medium saucepan and cook over medium-high until reduced to 1/4 cup, about 5 minutes. Remove pan from heat, stir reduced liquid into bananas, and mash with potato mashed until fairly smooth. Whisk in butter, eggs, brown sugar and vanilla. 4. Pour banana mixture into flour mixture and stir until just combined with some streaks of flour remaining. Gently fold in the walnuts. Scrape batter into prepared pan. Slice remaining banana diagonally into 1/4 inch thick slices. Shingle banana sliced on top of either side of loaf, leaving 1 1/2 inch wide space down center to ensure even rise. Sprinkle with sugar. 5. Bake until toothpick inserted in center of loaf comes out clean 55-75 minutes. Cool 15 minutes. Remove loaf from pan and continue to cool on wire rack. Serve warm or at room temperature.

ULTIMATE BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Cream butter, sugar and pudding mix in mixing bowl.
• Hand mash bananas and add to butter mixture.
• Stir in milk + vinegar.
• Gradually add eggs, flour vanilla, baking soda and salt.
• Pour batter evenly into 6 mini loaf pans or 4 larger loaf pnas.
• Bake approximately 45 minutes - 1 hour depending on oven and altitude.
• Bread is done when toothpick comes out clean.