Easy Banana Bread Recipe
The world’s easiest banana bread. This yummy banana bread is super easy to make, nicely sweet, moist, and topped with a brown sugar crust, and can be customized with your preferred stir-ins.
Course Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword baking, bananas, quick bread
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings 10
Calories 322 kcal
Ingredients
3 medium overripe bananas
1/3 cup of organic granulated sugar
1/3 cup of organic brown sugar
1/3 cup of canola oil or your preferred baking oil
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
2 cups of all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon of baking soda
1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon of salt
1 cup of chopped walnuts or your preferred banana bread stir-in.
For Topping
1/4 cup of organic brown sugar
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 350°.
2. A 9-inch loaf pan is lightly oiled and a strip of parchment paper is arranged width-wise along the middle with just a bit hanging out on each side.
3. Peel and put the bananas in a big mixing bowl With a fork or potato masher, mash them well.
4. To the bowl, add the sugar, brown sugar, oil, and vanilla. Stir until they’re well-mixed.
5. Add the flour to the bowl, then sprinkle on top of the flour with the baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
6. Just stir everything together until it’s mixed. Just don’t overmix. The batter’s going to be thick.
7. Fold the walnuts in.
8. With the back of a spoon, spoon the batter into the prepared loaf pan and smooth out the top. Sprinkle the brown sugar on the top.
9. Bake for 50 mins or until it is clean with a toothpick inserted into the middle
10. Remove the oven from the pan and move it to a rack for cooling. Before removing it from the pan, let the loaf cool for at least 15 mins. Slice and serve.