Best Banana Bread Recipe is so easy to make and super soft and moist! The very best way to use up overripe bananas this bread is tender and packed full of flavor!
Since I have already shared with you my family’s favorite Chocolate Chip Banana Bread it was time to give you my very best classic recipe as well! If you love all things banana, then make up these Banana Nut Muffins too, one bowl, so easy, so GOOD!
What Is The Best Banana Bread Recipe?
To make the very best banana bread that comes out super moist, it is important to start out with those ugly, overripe bananas! In the picture below you can see the bananas that I used for this recipe post. These bananas are just ripe enough to work with. They need to be a dark yellow with lots of browning. You can use bananas that are even darker than this! The riper the bananas, the more moist your bread will be and the more banana flavor it will have!
How Do You Keep Banana Bread Moist?
The best way to keep banana bread moist for days is to wrap it tightly! Once your bread is baked and cooled, I recommend wrapping tightly in plastic wrap. Then, take a second step and store it in a large zip top freezer bag or a plastic container with a tight fitting lid. Stored this way on the counter, your bread will last up to 3 days. If you’d like, you can store it wrapped in the refrigerator for up to 6 days.
How to Make Banana Bread:
This recipe makes one loaf of banana bread. The first step is to preheat your oven and prepare a loaf pan with non-stick cooking spray or grease with butter.
- Next, take a large bowl as seen below and whisk together your dry ingredients. This will include the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
- In a separate bowl melt your butter in the microwave, then add in the bananas and mash until mostly smooth.
- Add your eggs and vanilla to your mashed banana mixer and use your fork to combine everything really well, until you no longer see any streaks of eggs.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix together with a spatula just until combined. Don’t overmix.
- Now, you are ready to pour your batter into your prepared pan and bake!
**NOTE:Â You can also mash your bananas with the melted butter in your stand mixer if preferred.
Can you Freeze Banana Bread?
Yes! If you’d like to freeze this then allow it to cool completely at room temperature on a plate or wire rack once it comes out of the oven. Once cool, wrap the bread in plastic wrap, then wrap in foil. Freeze the bread for up to 2 months for best results.
To thaw the bread, remove from the freezer and allow it to come to room temperature, covered on the counter. This will take about 24 hours.
Enjoy!
~Nichole
Best Banana Bread Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 Stick (1/2 Cup) Butter
- 3 Large Ripe Bananas
- 2 Large Eggs
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 Cups All Purpose Flour
- 1 Cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a loaf pan with non-stick cooking spray or grease with butter and set aside.
- Add the stick of butter to a large bowl and microwave for 1 minute, or until melted.
- Add the bananas to the same bowl and mash with a fork.
- Add the vanilla extract and egg to the bowl and use the same fork to mash and stir until no yellow streaks of egg remain.
- In a second large bowl whisk together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix together with a spatula just until combined.
- Pour the batter into prepared loaf pan and bake for 45-55 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
BEST BANANA BREAD EVER!!!
This is my go-to recipe when I want good banana bread! Sometimes I add cinnamon and/or white chocolate chips for some extra zing, but it’s delicious as is! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I am not a cook. I don’t like it and I guess I never will as I am 65. Last week a friend gave me two dozen black bananas and I just had to see if black bananas really do make the best banana bread and came upon this recipe. OMG. Took three loaves and also your banana muffins to work and everyone is asking me for a recipe for the first time in my life, which is too funny. Made a few alterations for high altitude, used monkfruit sugar (and half the amount called for), Greek yogurt in place of sour cream as I did not have any sour cream, and added craisins, chopped pecans, and Guitard chocolate chips. I am not sure if all those changes improved on your basic wonderful recipe but they sure were delicious. Oh my!
The banana bread recipe rocks …so moist.
Awesome! Made three loaves and all gone in five days. Thank you for the recipe!
Dad
Easy and delicious!
Absolutely the best banana bread recipe! I have made it as written dozens of times, but often I will throw in one or two extra bananas just to use the last of a bunch, and it ALWAYS turns out great! Super easy and delicious way to use up those extra ripe nanners!
The best banana bread recipe I’ve made! It’s become our family favorite and been making it at least once a month since I found it 3 years ago! Hubby is a banana bread fanatic 😂. He likes banana chunks so, I mash one banana for flavor and moisture, and chop the other bananas.
Make this for my grandson all the time. He loves it as muffins.
This banana bread is delicious, I did make a couple tweaks, I split the sugar into 1/2 cup white sugar and 1/2 brown sugar, as well as adding some pecans. Definitely will be my go to banana bread reciepe.
This is the best banana bread. I usually make it as is but this time I added a splash of rum and some coconut. We’ll see how it turns out