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
Can you make these In cupcake form? Want to try and control how much I eat. If you can, what would be the baking time?
Can u substitute buttermilk with something else. Because I don’t have that on hand
I’ve had success with half n half.
AWESOME! Thank you for answering this question. It’s 2am and I’m a crazy person w/insomnia, so I got out of bed to make banana bread. I, too, don’t have buttermilk on hand, but I do have heavy whipping cream & half-n-half & was hoping to find an appropriate substitute in the comments. I’m SO happy to know the answer. Much appreciated!
P.S….Am I the only lunatic who puts raisins in my banana bread?
You can make buttermilk. 1cup milk+1Tablespoon lemon juice or wht vinegar. Use this and it was awsome
You can always add 1 tsp of fresh lemon juice or 1 tsp of white vinegar to whatever 1/2 cup milk kinda of milk you have on hand (whole, 2% 0r 1%) set aside to room temp=buttermilk 🙂
I do! It makes 24. I use my convection oven, bake same temp for 13, switch the pans and go for another 13.
I did, since I made double the amount and had some batter left over. I jist took them pit of the oven 10 minutes earlier. Actulally I liked the cupcakes more, because its just the right serving size
I love the way the outside crusts gets almost crunchy. But the inside stays moist! Perfect with a glass of cold milk.
Amazing recipe !!!
I used a cake tin Lined with parchment paper and left it in for about 45 minutes on gas mark 4/5. I also used 2 Very ripe bananas along with milk mixed with Lemon as an alternative to butter milk. I might use less sugar next time as it’s quite sweet!!
Can you make with only 2 bananas?
Yea I did , just make sure they’re really ripe
It won’t be the exact same, not as moist, i recommend splitting this recipe in half and using 1 and a half bananas or just adding a little bit of milk to make up for the lack of banana. Sorry for the late reply.
Sooo good. Only had one banana so I halved everything and it came out perfect – moist and delicious! A perfect snack bread that we ate while still warm.
Great recipe, it’s my go to, super easy!! Since I never have buttermilk at home, I usually use milk and it works great, super moist!! I also love adding chopped pecans to make it even better
You can add a Tblsp of vinegar into milk, it makes an ok substitute for b.milk