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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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After many years of my husband asking me to try my hand at making banana bread, I finally made it for him using your recipe. He is quite fussy and he loved it! He constantly tells me how much he loves it and that you could easily sell this at a cafe/restaurant and now I make it for him once a week. I would highly recommend this recipe to anyone, beginners or advanced cooks.
I am so happy to hear this! Thank you for such a wonderful comment - it makes my day!
My favourite recipe for banana bread! Works every time
Thank you! 🙂
This recipe was delicious! As one of my first banana bread tackles, I found this so easy to follow and it not only was simple but tasted amazing.
Thank you, Jess! So happy to hear such wonderful feedback!
So good and easy to make!!!
Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed it!
Love this recipe! Thank you for sharing. I made it in muffin tins and a mini loaf pan. 🙂
So glad you have enjoyed this recipe!
This is the best banana bread recipe. It's the one I always use. If we are in a time crunch I usually dish out the batter into muffin pans. This recipe makes for the perfect banana muffin as well!
I am so happy to hear that!
I have never made banana bread before and I was craving it. I followed this recipe exactly and it’s soooooo good! And was very easy to make too! The bananas I had were a little on the small size, so I used 4.
So glad you enjoyed this recipe! Thank you for stopping by and leaving such a kind comment!
Is baking time the same if you use 9x5 loaf pan?
Yes, the baking time would be the same for 9x5 loaf pan - about 1 hour.
I LOVE this recipe! My 3.5 year old and I made it together today and it was absolutely delicious- so moist on the inside and a sweet little crisp on the outside. We didn’t have baking soda, so I substituted with 2 tablespoons of baking powder and added a dash of cinnamon. It was perfect!! I would love to add this to my list of treats to give to loved ones during special occasions. Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful recipe!
I am so happy you liked this recipe! Thank you for such a kind and thoughtful comment!
I have chosen your recipe
because is more tasty with walnuts
I have added small pieces of my
candied orange peel,
thus reduced sugar to
1/2 cup only and used half cup
Of almond flour and 1 cup of
Semolina flour grinded
to be a little bit finer.
Tastes delicious
Thank you for nice recipe
So glad you liked this recipe! Your changes to the recipe sound so good, especially the addition of candied orange peel!
I have been failing at banana bread for quite some time now and finally a success...yay everyone loged it. Thanks alot Julia.
You're very welcome, so glad this recipe was useful for you!
I love this recipe! The only thing I do differently is grind up old fashion oats and use this instead of flour.
So glad you liked this recipe! Thank you for your comment!
I was making this for a special reason and I really needed it to be delicious. It was!!!!! I followed the recipe exactly except that I added just a little bit of cinnamon. Thank you for an amazing recipe
You are very welcome! So glad you enjoyed this banana bread. The addition of cinnamon sounds delicious!
Hi,
I did a Google search for Best Banana bread and out of the options choose to try your recipe. I have enjoyed the past two mornings with my cup of coffee, just delicious! This will now be my go to recipe and I am enjoying checking out more of your blog. Thanks!
Thank you so much for such a kind comment! I am so happy you chose my recipe! So glad you liked it! I also made this banana bread with blueberries - here is the recipe: Blueberry Banana Bread.
I'm (or my kids rather) are in LOVE with this recipe!!
Have been using it for about a year now. I have never made a loaf; I always make muffins out of it. Easier for the kids to grab. I sometimes add pumpkin pie spice. Thank you!
Laura, you are very welcome! So glad you've been making this recipe! Great idea to bake this bread in a muffin pan.
I am going to try this recipe later today. It sounds delicious and so easy. I don't have parchment paper at home, so I hope that greasing the pan will be sufficient.
Enjoy the bread!