Banana Bread - Recipe

[Mom2Ashli]

My MIL gave me allot of bananas that need to be used quick. I was planning on making some banana bread tonight but I need a good recipe.

Do You have one to share?
PLEASE Help.

 

[lewdyan1]

This is our absolute favorite.

1 cup of sugar
1 1/2 cup of all purpose flour
4Tbs butter (room temp)
2 eggs
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
3 ripe bananas


Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix sugar and eggs. Add flour, butter, salt, baking soda and bananas, mix well. Pour into well greased loaf pan. Bake for 50-60minutes. Optional add nuts or semi-sweet chocolate chips if desired.

We make this all the time and highly recommend adding the chocolate chips!!!

 

[Mom2Ashli]

Thank you very much.

I could have looked up some on the internet but I wanted Tried and True Yummy ones.

DD6 and I will give this one a try.

Thanks again.

 

[lewdyan1]

It has never failed me yet. This recipe came from my DD teacher years ago. Now my DD has informed me that we are making some tonight!

Let me know how it goes.

 

[Mom2Ashli]

It has never failed me yet. This recipe came from my DD teacher years ago. Now my DD has informed me that we are making some tonight!

Let me know how it goes.

Here I am thinking Wahoo I am going to try this tonight than DH calls me and reminds me that DD has ballet and hiphop tonight. I forgot all about it. But I might still try and squeeze in tonight.

 

[JudithM]

You can also freeze the bananas as is - do not peel them until you take them out of the freezer. Most of the bananas I use come out of my freezer.

 

[kelleigh1]

Woohoo!! I was just thinking last night that i need to use up the bananas that I bought and wish I had a quick and easy banana bread recipe.

 

[Mom2Ashli]

You can also freeze the bananas as is - do not peel them until you take them out of the freezer. Most of the bananas I use come out of my freezer.

Do you just put them in a ziplock freezer bag?

 

[piratesmate]

If you can't get to it tonight, toss the bananas (unpeeled) in the freezer. They get totally smushed anyway in the bread so no one will ever notice! Just peel them, dump in a bowl & let them defrost about 10 min before you try to mix them. I do it all the time! I only like banana bread when the bananas are over-ripe anyway. So I don't always have enough to do a recipe unless I save them up as someone always eats them before they get ripe enough for the bread.

And this is our favorite recipe....from where else??

Strawberry Banana Bread
from the Whispering Canyon Cafe, Wilderness Lodge

1 c butter
2 c sugar
2 c bananas (~6 medium)
4 eggs
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
3 c flour
1½ lb strawberries

Grease two loaf pans & preheat oven to 325. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter & sugar. Incorporate bananas scraping sides of bowl. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing thoroughly after each. Set aside. In another bowl, mix together salt, baking soda & flour. Add flour mixture to butter mixture & stir until blended. Add strawberries (thawed). Bake 60 to 75 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool completely on a rack before inverting onto a plate.

 

[JudithM]

Do you just put them in a ziplock freezer bag?

No, I don't use freezer bags for the bananas. I do like Piratesmate mentioned - I just put them in the freezer as is. I find them pretty easy to peel using a sharp knive when I take them out of the freezer.

 

[Mom2Ashli]

No, I don't use freezer bags for the bananas. I do like Piratesmate mentioned - I just put them in the freezer as is. I find them pretty easy to peel using a sharp knive when I take them out of the freezer.

Very cool.

For some reason I have never thought of freezing them. I always toss them in the garbage. Sometime I just don't think outside the box.

Piratesmate - that sounds yummy also. And I do believe at this moment DMIL gave me plenty of bananas to do a couple of different recipes.

 

[lewdyan1]

Frozen bananas are also excellent in smoothies! (you have to use this guy in this thread!)

 

[Mom2Ashli]

Well the bananas are in the freezer. I did not get a chance to make it last night.

And I might not get to it tonight. I have a 7 Mile training walk and I won't get home until after 8:00 again.

But thank for the tips about freezing them, because I would have just thrown them away.

 

[JudithM]

Frozen bananas are also excellent in smoothies! (you have to use this guy in this thread!)

Great reminder of another use for frozen bananas ... !

 

[Twigs]

Perfect timing with this thread! We just got bafck from Hawaii on Sat. (Still getting used to the time change) Anyway I was going to go hunting for a banana bread recipe. On the road to Hana people who live up there have fruit stands set up at the end of their driveways and almost all of them have banana bread for sale. After seeing the signs 4 or 5 times I felt like having some. So we got some thinking DH and I will be the only ones eating it. Well it turns out DS's LOVED it. So now I need to bake some

 

[Tantor]

This recipe was given to me by my girlfriend. It has mayo in it which makes it very moist.

Yummy Banana Bread
1/2 cup mayo
1 egg
3 ripe banana's
1 1/2 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
Heat oven to 350°. Combine mayo, egg and banana's. In seperate bowl combine remaining ingriedents. Mix well. Combine dry ingredients with banana, egg and mayo. Turn into greased loaf pan. Bake for 60 minutes (test after 50) Let stand 10 min.

 

[wdw_dine_junkie]

I use a recipe from Allrecipes. It's very dense and moist.

http://bread.allrecipes.com/az/BnnBnnBrd.asp

 

[Not so Dumbo]

Here's the recipe I use today. It's from the Pillsbury complete book of baking.
Banana Blueberry Bread
1c sugar
1/2c oil
1c(2mashed) bananas
1/2c plain yogurt
1t vanilla
2 eggs
2c all purpose flour
1t baking soda
1/2 t salt
1c (or more) fresh or frozen blueberries
bake at 350 for 40-50min.(I alway end up baking at least 1hr 20)

 

[Tantor]

Here's the recipe I use today. It's from the Pillsbury complete book of baking.
Banana Blueberry Bread
1c sugar
1/2c oil
1c(2mashed) bananas
1/2c plain yogurt
1t vanilla
2 eggs
2c all purpose flour
1t baking soda
1/2 t salt
1c (or more) fresh or frozen blueberries
bake at 350 for 40-50min.(I alway end up baking at least 1hr 20)

oh that sounds good

 

[Mom2Ashli]

Here's the recipe I use today. It's from the Pillsbury complete book of baking.
Banana Blueberry Bread
1c sugar
1/2c oil
1c(2mashed) bananas
1/2c plain yogurt
1t vanilla
2 eggs
2c all purpose flour
1t baking soda
1/2 t salt
1c (or more) fresh or frozen blueberries
bake at 350 for 40-50min.(I alway end up baking at least 1hr 20)

Ohh that does sound good. And now that I know about freezing the bananas I will be able to try all these out. My family doesn't eat bananas once they start to show the little brown spots.