My Favorite Banana Bread Recipe!

December 6, 2011 By yana Leave a Comment

The countdown is officially on! 19 days until Christmas…

Have you started baking yet? Try out my favorite Banana Bread recipe, you can tweak it and add your favorites, anything goes with bananas!

I usually add everything from cranberries, pineapple, coconut, chocolate, orange juice and nuts

This is your basic banana bread recipe;

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
1/3 cup butter, soft
5 bananas (very ripe, almost rotten)
2 eggs
1 tsp soda, dissolved in 1 Tbsp cold water
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg

Instructions

Heat oven to 350
Combine and mix all ingredients together in a large mixing bowl.
Place batter in a greased bread pan (bottom only) or in muffin tins.
Bake 40 to 50 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool for 10 minutes then remove from pan. Complete cooling on a wire rack

Courtesy of www.bestbananabreadrecipes.com

For Cranberry Banana bread all you need is half a bag of fresh cranberries (approximatly 1cup) in a small pot with 1/4 cup of brown sugar and 1/4 cup of water. Let it cook but stirring occasionaly until it gets all mushy and breaks apart. Remove from heat and let it cool (or stick the pot in cold water for a few minutes for faster cooling). Add to your banana bread mix and there you have it.

As I mentioned before I do add orange juice to this recipe about 1/2 cup usually, this makes the bread quite moist 🙂

Let me know if you come up with other great additions that compliment this great recipe!

Ciao