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Banana bread with walnuts - perfect breakfast and dessert recipe!
This is simply the best recipe I've found so far for the most moist, perfectly sweetened, and easy banana bread. I added walnuts to this recipe, but they are totally optional, even though I love my banana bread with walnuts. This recipe is so easy, you don't even need a mixer - just mix everything with a big wooden spoon!
I've been eating this walnut banana bread for both breakfast and dessert for the past week and just love it!
Try this delicious banana bread with walnuts and you'll love it as much as I do!
Banana Bread with Walnuts
Ingredients
- 3 bananas , ripe, smashed
- ⅓ cup butter melted
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 egg beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup walnuts chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- In a large bowl, mix butter into the mashed bananas, using wooden spoon. Mix in the sugar, egg, and vanilla. Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in. Add the flour last, mix just enough to blend the ingredients; do not over0mix, the lumps will work themselves out.
- Add chopped walnuts to the batter and mix them in to distribute evenly through the batter.
- Butter a 4×8 inch loaf pan. Line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper, butter the parchment paper too. Pour the batter in the pan. Bake for 1 hour. Cool on a rack. Remove from pan and slice to serve.
- Note: lining the bottom of the pan with parchment paper ensures that the bottom of the bread will not get stuck.
Notes
Nutrition
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Followed recipe and it was amazing. Still had some 4?days later and it was still very moist .
Thought this recipe was fab! Thank you!
I made this banana bread recipe it’s was easy to follow and it came out great thanks
Followed recipe,mine turned out fry. I thought 1 hour was too much?? I'll try it again.
It came out perfect & very moist thanks
Hi. Firstly thank you for such a quick and easy recipe to follow, I just baked my banana bread and it's fresh out of the oven.. The top however is cracked and looks crunchy. Not sure what am I missing here. Would appreciate if you could give me some pointers here. Thank You!
My Family loves this banana bread. Every time it turns out perfect! Thank you for sharing your recipe with us.
Simply perfect, and perfectly simple banana bread! I am overjoyed with the outcome of what will be a new staple recipe in my repertoire. Like other's, I took a few liberties with the basic recipe: First of all, I used whole-wheat flour (always my go-to flour in the kitchen, which sometimes needs more moisture added in recipes, but my squishy overripe bananas were juicy enough); Then I ground the chopped walnuts into an almost coarse meal (but still with some crunch), and toasted them for extra flavor before adding to the batter; The last change I made was just a shortcut to use cooking oil spray on the pan and the parchment paper. I didn't change anything else though and used the same temperature and cooking time as in the recipe. Moist and aromatically delicious!
I had to use a 9x9 dark non stick pan and it turned out perfect at 33 minutes
Parchment on the bottom, butter all sides, then 33 minutes on 350 F.
Amazing recipe, thank you for sharing!
Just made this banana bread and it is absolutely delicious! I added dark chocolate chips and baked for just 50 minutes and it came out perfect. Such an easy recipe to follow and so so tasty - I will definitely be making it again!
I see it calls for butter but in the instructions you didn’t have when to add the butter
It’s in the 2nd step, mix butter and mashed bananas
It says mix butter into the mashed bananas
Check #2 - it says add butter when mashing banana.
added blueberries...extra cinnimin and off I go great also some reasins o boy
Hi Julia, I tried the recipe today..and it was delicious..but the bread was very crumbly..What could be the reason? I followed the exact recipe..except I added a dash of cinnamon.
Thank you!!
I made it last week and it is SOOOOOOO GOooooOD!!!
Alright, and the Verdict is in. I was looking for a recipe that was quick, easy, not to many ingredients, and overall moist and flavorful. This recipe right here took the cake. Easy like Sunday Morning. Baby let me tell you, the only thing that I did change was I added 1/4 cup brown sugar and I added about 2 Tbs off coffee (not grounds but liquid coffee from the coffee machine). I made muffins, so instead of the entire 1hour cook time, I reduced the time to about 30 minutes or until the toothpick came out clean. Let me tell you moist, moist, moist and like somebody mentioned above it taste like something you would buy from Starbucks or any boutique coffee shop. This is a keeper. I printed this and added this to my arsenal. Thank you for sharing this recipe.