Banana Walnut Bread
What to bake with those brown bananas — banana nut bread, banana nut muffins, and chocolate and walnut banana bread, for busy weeks and lunchbox mornings.
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The most moist banana bread recipe out there! Creamy bananas and crunchy walnuts come together to make this mouth watering delicious treat!
Chrissie HIngredients
- 1 1/2 cups AP Flour
- 3/4 cup White sugar
- 1 stick Unsalted butter room temp
- 2 Eggs
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1 cup Chopped walnuts
- 1 tsp Baking soda
- 3 Very ripe bananas
Instructions
- 1Preheat oven to 350°F.
- 2In a medium size bowl, whisk together the sugar and butter. Once combined, mix in the vanilla extract and eggs (do the eggs 1 at a time). Then mush the bananas with a fork and add to wet ingredients, combine well.
- 3Sift together the flour and baking soda. Then slowly add, while mixing, into the wet ingredients.
- 4Toast the walnuts in a dry frying pan over low heat. Let stand for about 3 minutes and then add to batter. Mix well.
- 5Pour batter into a greased (and floured) loaf pan.
- 6Bake for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
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Open in Pepper →Brown Bananas Are Worth Waiting For
Nobody buys bananas planning to bake with them. They just sit there getting spotty on the counter until one morning you mash them up with butter and sugar and the whole house smells like something good is happening.
Cooks on Pepper reach for this collection on a Sunday afternoon, when there's coffee on and three sad bananas in the fruit bowl, or the night before a school week when lunches need something homemade in them.
Every recipe here starts with over-ripe bananas and walnuts. There's a classic Banana Nut Bread, The Most Moist Banana Nut Bread, Banana Nut Muffins for grab-and-go mornings, Incredibly Moist Banana Nut Muffins with a walnut crumble topping, and a Chocolate & walnut banana bread when you want it a little richer.
Quick Tips
- 1
Wait for black spots
Bananas should be heavily speckled or nearly black — that's when the starch has turned to sugar. If yours are still yellow, bake them at 300°F for 15 minutes and let them cool.
- 2
Toast the walnuts
Spread walnuts on a dry sheet pan and toast at 350°F for 6 to 8 minutes until you can smell them. It keeps them from tasting soft and bland in the batter.
- 3
Stop stirring early
Mix only until the flour disappears, about 10 to 12 strokes. Overworked batter makes a tough, rubbery loaf with tunnels through the middle.
- 4
Cool before slicing
Let the loaf sit in the pan 10 minutes, then finish cooling on a rack at least 30 minutes. Warm banana bread tears and gums up under the knife.
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