banana bread
Banana bread isn't an excuse to use up over ripe bananas.
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Our banana bread is super moist and full of flavor. We wait until the bananas are just ripe enough and blend them with brown sugar and vanilla bean paste for a rich, flavorful sweet bread.
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How to make Banana Bread
What you are making:
Learn to create a delicious banana bread.​
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Recipe:
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1 3/4 cups organic or AP flour
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1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
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3/4 teaspoon salt (or 1/2 teaspoon if using salted butter
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2/3 cup sugar
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1/3 cup room temperature butter
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2 eggs
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3-4 ripe bananas
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2 teaspoons Madagascar vanilla extract
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2 tablespoons milk
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Directions:
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Shift all dry ingredients in a bowl. Set aside.
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Cream the butter and sugar together using a hand or stand mixer.
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Add eggs, one at a time.
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Mash the bananas. Add vanilla and milk and mix thoroughly.
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Add 1/3 of the dry ingredients to butter mixture and blend.
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Add 1/3 of the banana mixture and blend.
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Continue alternating adding ingredients until all are added. Scrape sides of bowl while blending.
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Grease one bread pan with butter.
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Pour the batter into the greased bread pan.
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Bake at 350 degrees for an hour or until a tooth pick stuck in the center of the bread comes out clean.
Makes 2 loaves of banana bread.
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Variation:
Add 1/3 cup chopped walnuts or your favorite nut to batter before adding to the pan.
