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
I have made this three times now.
This time, I doubled the recipe and made a loaf with chocolate chips.
It s hands down the best banana bread recipe, even my husband who usually turns his nose up, has flipped for it!
I love Banana cake! This sounds like a really great way to eat it too! MasterCakes
O…M….G! This is the best banana bread I have ever tasted, and my first time making one. It is so moist, a lil crunch on top. You can taste the combination of bananas and cinnamon. Soooooo delish ? This will be a Christmas Eve tradition set for my family.
Is this powdered buttermilk that you used? All i have i powdered buttermilk. Thanks
First time making banana bread and it came out absolutely delicious!!! Thank you so much for this easy and great recipe ?❤️
This was my first time attempting to cook banana nut bread. It is moist and perfectly tender with full flavor. I used toasted pecans instead of the traditional walnuts. Added a nice round nutty flavor. I think I missed the recommendation for what size loaf pan to use so I could not use all of the batter for fear that it would overcook out of the pan. NO worries, I just went with what I thought was the right amount in the pan and it came out perfectly. No problems with it rising. I cooked it for 1 hour. I melted about 2 tbsp of butter over the bread immediately after it came out of the oven. I think this will be my ” go to” banana nut bread recipe. My other half is grinning ear to ear as I write this and he sits beside me eating a slice. You were right…the second day brings out all the flavor. Great Recipe and easy to follow!