Banana bread
Banana bread recipe
| Prep | Bake |
|---|---|
| 15 minutes | 55 minutes |
Ingredients
| 1 1/2 cups | all-purpose flour |
| 1 1/2 tsp | baking powder |
| 1/4 tsp | baking soda |
| 1/4 tsp | salt |
| 1/4 tsp | ground cinnamon |
| 1 | egg |
| 4 | bananas (overripe, peeled, & mashed) |
| 3/4 cup | brown sugar |
| 1/4 cup | melted unsalted butter |
| 1/4 cup | vegetable oil |
| zest of one orange or lemon | |
| 1/2 cup | (optional) chopped walnuts or pecans |
| (optional) room temperature salted butter |
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Grease the bottom and sides of an 8x4-inch loaf pan or an 8" round pie tin, and set aside. In a medium mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Make a well in the center of the dry mixture, and set aside.
- In another bowl, combine the egg, bananas, brown sugar, melted unsalted butter, vegetable oil, and zest. Add wet mixture all at once to dry mixture. Stir just till moistened (batter should be lumpy). Optionally fold in nuts.
- Spoon batter into the prepared pan. Bake in a 325° convection oven for 55 minutes, or till a wooden toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove loaf from pan, cool on rack.
Recommend serving warm with salted butter.