Moist Banana Bread…My New Fav!
Watch me make this easy, moist banana bread from start to finish!
Ok so a few years ago I posted an old-fashioned banana bread recipe that is great!! It’s moist, dense, and just lovely. Then a viewer sent me a recipe for bakery-style banana bread that knocked my socks off. It was so fluffy, sweet, moist, and full of banana flavor. So my search for the perfect banana bread should be over right? Never!!
Today I was craving banana bread but I wanted it to be EVERYTHING that these two recipes had. I wanted that old-fashioned cinnamon-brown sugar-banana flavor, I wanted it to have that slight crunch on the outside yet crazy moist, fluffy, & dense on the inside. That’s not asking for too much right? With a little tweaking, I combined the two banana bread recipes on my site, and out came this beauty.
The perfect banana bread. My search is over. This is my favorite banana bread…. for now : )
It’s everything that I’ve ever wanted in banana bread and I couldn’t wait to share it with you all. I hope that you enjoy it as much as we have because I made it at 12 pm. and there is one more slice left at 7:41 pm and it’s that end slice. The one that’s not nearly as much fun as the inside slices. I still plan on hiding it and eating it with a hot cup of coffee though.
I just love that this bread has buttermilk in it. Something about buttermilk in quick bread just makes it so moist and adds great flavor. If I had some black walnuts I’d throw them in there as well. So yum!!
If you’re the type that likes to bake up quick loaves of bread and take them to work or give them away as gifts this is the recipe you want to use. It has a crowd-pleaser written all over it and tastes even better the next day and is much sweeter the next day as well!
Hey, wanna make it vegan? Check out this incredible vegan banana bread recipe!
Get the Recipe: Moist Banana Bread
Ingredients
- All ingredients should be room tempt.
- 3 large extra ripe bananas, 1 1/2 cups mashed
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2-3/4 cup brown sugar, I used 1/2 cup
- 8 tablespoons butter, softened ( 1 stick)
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325.
- Grease and flour a loaf pan.
- In a medium size bowl, mash bananas until creamy and stir in lemon juice. Set aside.
- In a medium size bowl, whisk together flour,baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugars.
- Beat in the eggs until combined.
- Fold in the bananas.
- Add in the vanilla extract and buttermilk.
- Beat until combined.
- Add the dry mixture into the wet mixture.
- STIR GENTLY AND JUST UNTIL THE FLOUR IS INCORPORATED. DO NOT OVER STIR.
- Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan.
- Bake on center rack for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Cooking times may vary. Check on bread at the 1 hour mark. Toothpick inserted into the center should come out clean and bread should be golden on the outside.
- Brush the top of the bread with butter if desire when it comes out of the oven.
- Let cool for 5 minutes and then remove the bread from the pan and place on a cooling rack to finish cooling.
- Slice and enjoy! (flavors will intensify the next day)
Video
Notes
Hello- can I leave out the lemon? I’m assuming it’s used as a preservative for freezing purposes. I’m allergic and wanted to make sure it didn’t serve as specific purpose. Sounds great and I’m looking forward to making it!
OMG!! This is the best banana bread ever made I’ve used a recipe that I’ve had for years and I wanted to change up. This is the most moist and flavorful banana bread I’ve ever made. Thanks for posting the recipe it will be my go-to recipe from now on! PS I Love walnuts so I added about 3/4 cup to 1 cup of chopped walnuts to the batter. It’s amazing!!!!!
I made this recipe today for Easter Brunch with all of my family and out of town relatives. It was a huge hit! Thank heavens because this was the first time that I have ever tried it. I had to go for it! : ) It just sounded so delicious, the recipe was super simple to follow, and it did not disappoint. I love Banana Bread and I make it all of the time this will be my new go to.
Pls let me know the substitute for the 2 eggs in this recipe..I want to try it badly..
I’ve made this recipe five or six times now, and every time I’m stunned by how great it is! I’ll never use another banana bread recipe again. It’s so moist and dense and perfect! The only thing I change is that I add a little cinnamon, brown sugar, and honey to the melted butter that I brush on at the end. Yum!!!
I’m so glad you liked it Meaghan!!! Those additions sound great!
The first time I have felt compelled to make a comment on a recipe site/blog. This truly is the best banana bread I have ever made and I looked for a couple of decades for a holy grail banana bread recipe. This is it…I am done looking. I am renaming this…Holy Grail Banana Bread recipe