Classic easy banana bread recipe made in 1 bowl, and is ready to eat in 1 hour! It's delicious, easy home baking at it's finest!
We are almost on our way home!! It's been 3 weeks exploring and eating our way through the Southern USA and I can't wait to tell you all about it. We've had the best time but we're both pretty excited to get home and see these cuties. And I know I'll regret this within 2 minutes of being back in the cold but I'm kinda excited to not be sweaty...it has been HOT here!! I'm also really looking forward to getting back in the kitchen and making a whole bunch of new recipes for you...I'm feeling super inspired by chocolate and peanut butter (no surprises! ????) wintery gumbo, coffee creamer, sweet pies and um...doughnuts...that may or may not be loaded with even more deliciousness. Feeling fat already? Me too! But until then, grab those ugly brown bananas that have been forgotten in your fruit bowl...we're making easy banana bread!
This easy banana bread recipe is one of my current favourites. There are so many ways you can make banana bread fancy but when it comes down to it, sometimes it's the classics that stand the test of time, and this banana bread is one of those recipes.
It's made in 1 bowl, and is ready to eat in 1 hour. I'm speaking your language right? All the busy/lazy people say heeeey! Me too.
The best thing about this recipe is that it's pretty adaptable. You can use anywhere from ½ cup of sugar for a loaf that's less sweet or up to 1 cup if you like it sweeter. I find that ¾ cup or just under is perfect for me.
It's the sort of thing that you bake and it reaches out and grabs you from the oven. I mean, it's banana bread, it's not exactly fancy but the aroma of freshly baked banana bread is enough to make you go back and brush your teeth for a second time that night because you just HAVE to have a piece before bed. True story.
It freezes well as a whole loaf or even as individual slices that can be grabbed out of the freezer and thrown into a lunchbox.
So if you've got an hour and a few bananas lying around, get to it! It's worth the effort just for the smell alone!
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Easy Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 4 medium sized very ripe bananas mashed (about 1 ½ cups)
- 100 grams butter, melted
- 2 eggs
- ¾ cup (157.5g) sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups (210g) flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 180°C/350°F and grease or line a loaf tin.
- Add the bananas to a large mixing bowl and mash using a fork. Add the melted butter, eggs, sugar and vanilla and whisk together.
- Add the flour, baking soda and salt to the bowl and whisk together again, until all ingredients are combined.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 45-50 minutes until the top is golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean.
- Allow to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack.
- Slice and serve immediately, or keep in an airtight container at room temperature for 5 days.
- You may also wrap and freeze the whole loaf, or individual pieces that can be pulled out of the freezer and put straight into a lunchbox.
Easy and delicious
Made it an hour ago, family ate half already it’s so good… need to bake two next time!
Hi do you have to use baking soda? Could I use baking powder I hate the soda taste lol not sure if you can really taste it in this recipe as I haven't tried it yet
Hi Monique, you definitely can't taste the baking soda - you could test it with baking powder instead but you would need to use more (probably 3 teaspoons of baking powder). But I haven't tested the recipe this way!
Easy to cook. Very yummy to eat. My son said everyone in the world would love this banana loaf.
Soo good.
Switched out the flour with wholemeal and chucked chocolate chips and peanut butter - it's sooo good. Thanks for the recipe totally going to be my new go to.
Delicious! Love love love this recipe soooo good. Thank you.
Hiya this looks delicious but do you bake or fan bake?
Hi Jodie, I use bake. If you are using fanbake, reduce the temperature to 160°C
Can I use brown sugar instead?
Hi Mei, I haven't tried it with brown sugar so I can't say for sure but I imagine it would be fine - the bread might just have a slightly different texture to normal.
I just used brown sugar and it's delicious!
I also added roughly chopped walnuts, a pinch of cinnamon and made it as mini loaves (cooked in about 25-30 mins).
Yum! I just baked this with my 3 year old, super easy to make and we all think it is delicious! I added a cinnamon swirl to the top of the loaf and it is possibly the nicest banana bread I have ever tasted (big call as I have tasted a lot!)
Great recipe! I’ve reduced sugar to less than 1/2 cup & with all that delicious banana there have been no complaints from my consumers. So very easy & delish, I’m making a second loaf, only 2 days after the first!
Hello
Easy Banana Bread what flour do u use plain or self raising.
Thanks
Dani
Hi Danijela, plain flour in this one! Laura
oh yum...have been searching and experimenting with a few banana loaves - this one so easy for sure, and it's really turned out great. It's not quite cool yet, but a slice shows it's a winner...
You can never have too many banana bread recipes & this looks like a yummy one. Thanks so much for sharing with YWF too.
Definitely not! The more banana bread the better 🙂
What a wonderfully simple banana bread Laura! looks so tasty. Can't wait to hear more about your travels in the US, some great food inspiration for sure!
Thanks Jayne! It really is one of my favourite recipes! I can't wait to share all about our trip...so much great food inspiration!
There's no such thing as too much banana bread or too many banana bread recipes. ! I'm a "yes" girl because I say yes to the sugar and yes to the butter. And I'll always say yes to another slice because this looks delicious!
I always say yes to sugar and butter too...yay!! I'm addicted to this bread...so good!!
Who doesn't love banana bread? It is a favourite here with both of my boys so I shall have to give this recipe a go.
It's just so good right? I'm going to need to make another loaf soon, I'm craving it!
Yummm! There is nothing better than a simple quick bread when it's cold outside, with just a little pat of butter. 😀 I hope you have safe travels home!
Definitely better with butter! Thanks Claire - we had a great flight home and now we're back in the cold...not sure how I'm feeling about this yet!!