Easiest Way to Make Yummy Banana Bread

Banana Bread.

Banana Bread You can cook Banana Bread using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Banana Bread

  1. It’s 1 3/4 cup of all-purpose flour.
  2. It’s 1 1/4 tsp of baking powder.
  3. Prepare 3/4 tsp of salt.
  4. It’s 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
  5. You need 2/3 cup of sugar.
  6. Prepare 1/3 cup of butter.
  7. It’s 2 large of eggs.
  8. You need 2 tbsp of milk.
  9. It’s 1 cup of mashed ripe banana (~2-3, the blacker, the better!).
  10. You need 1/4 cup of chopped pecans or walnuts.

Banana Bread step by step

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Prepare an 8"x4"x2" (1-lb) loaf pan by greasing and flouring it.
  2. In a baking pan, add bananas and cover in half the sugar, bake for 20-25 min (long enough to get the sugar to melt and the bananas' flavor to open).
  3. Stir together flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda; set aside.
  4. In a mixer bowl, cream half of sugar and shortening with electric mixer till light and fluffy, scraping sides of bowl often.
  5. Add eggs, one at a time, and then the milk, beating till smooth after each addition.
  6. Add flour mixture and mashed banana alternately to creamed mixture, folding till smooth after each addition. Gently fold in the chopped pecans or walnuts and/or chocolate.
  7. Bake for 60-65 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 minutes, then remove from pan and cool completely on a wire rack.

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