Banana Bread

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recipe by Cormac Walsh

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    1hr 40mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    8
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    437
based on 8 ratings

How do you make your banana bread? Is your recipe similar to this one? Do you follow a different technique? And the most important question: chocolate chips, nuts, or plain?

Inspired by: https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-banana-bread-the-simplest-easiest-recipe-139900

recipe updated 14 Oct 2020

Ingredients

  • Baking spray icon
    Baking spray
    as needed
  • Unsalted butter icon
    Unsalted butter
    8 tablespoons
  • White sugar icon
    White sugar
    205 g
  • Egg icon
    Egg
    2
  • Milk icon
    Milk
    60 ml
  • Vanilla extract icon
    Vanilla extract
    1 tablespoon
  • Banana icon
    Banana
    3
  • Plain flour icon
    Plain flour
    260 g
  • Bicarbonate of soda icon
    Bicarbonate of soda
    1 teaspoon
  • Salt icon
    Salt
    ¼ teaspoon
  • Chocolate chips icon
    Chocolate chips
    85 g

Tools

  • kCook icon Spatula
  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Parchment paper
  • kCook icon Whisk
  • kCook icon Microwave
  • kCook icon Small bowl
  • kCook icon Large mixing bowl
  • kCook icon Loaf pan - 8.5 x 4.5 x 2.5"

Step preview

  1. Pre-heat oven - 175°C, low rack
  2. Line a clean loaf pan with parchment paper
  3. Grease with baking spray
  4. Melt unsalted butter a clean small bowl
  5. Melt - approx 20 sec
  6. Transfer content of small bowl to large mixing bowl
  7. Add white sugar to the large mixing bowl
  8. Whisk until combined
  9. Add egg to the batter
  10. Whisk until combined
  11. Add milk and vanilla extract to the batter
  12. Mash banana into the batter
  13. Add plain flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt to the batter
  14. Stir until combined
  15. Fold chocolate chips into the batter
  16. Transfer batter to loaf pan
  17. Bake until skewer tests clean - 50 min, 175°C
  18. Cool - approx 10 min
  19. Serve
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