I had to give four stars as the recipe was written. The taste is 5-star, but the instructions resulted in two little dry blobs of white flour in one of my mini loaves!!! Unacceptable! I would have been mortified had I served this to company!! I think the steps need to be amended as follows: CREAM butter and sugar, ADD eggs, one at a time, mixing after each addition, MIX in mashed banana, MIX in DRY ingredients to WET in three batches, scraping down after each, STIR in nuts. It makes no sense and serves no purpose that I can see to *stir* in banana, eggs or dry ingredients. They need *mixing* to be thoroughly incorporated. I added 1 tsp vanilla and 2 tsp cinnamon. Used dark brown sugar/white in a 3:1 ratio. Pecans instead of walnuts. Have not tasted anything this great in a LOOOONG time! The crust is fabulous, banana flavor is great, moisture is awesome! And I read it will be better tomorrow!! Amazing.
FINALLY! Someone who KNOWS what banana nut bread is supposed to be! Like others, I added 1/2 tsp baking powder, used half white and half dark brown sugar, and used pecans instead of walnuts. This is JUST LIKE MOMS! Thank you so much! I had tried two other recipes from this website and they turned out to be more like banana nut dessert cake, THIS is banana nut bread, it has substance! I used 3x8 loaf pans (it filled them just right), reduced the temp to 325, and cooked for about 70 minutes. They were a little too brown on the top, but that's just my bad electric oven, the humidity, and the combo of unbleached flour and dark brown sugar most likely. Mom would be proud of this bread! If you want something healthy to snack on, eat a luna bar, if you want something tasty, eat this bread! PS: If anyone wants to save a bowl and skip a step, I just mixed the wet mix as directed, then dumped the salt, baking soda, baking powder, and flour on top and mixed it all in at once. It turned out FINE.
This is a great recipe for banana bread! What I love about it is its intense flavor. It's is unlike most banana breads in that it is very dense and quite moist. You can taste the butter in this bread along with the bananas--it practically melts in your mouth! My house smelled so YUMMY as the loaves baked. My family and I went through both loaves in just two days. Caution! It is highly addicting and hard to stay away from! The only changes I made to this recipe were #1. I added 2 tsp. vanilla #2. I used chopped pecans instead of walnuts & #3. I baked for 55 minutes instead of 60-70 minutes (this would have overcooked/burned the loaves)I have a 4 year old oven that bakes evenly/accurately. I would check the loaves of bread at 55 minutes before allowing them to cook any longer. This recipe easily earns 5 stars! My kids & hubby can't wait for the bananas to over-ripen! It would be hard to flub this recipe!
ok.. stop rating recipes if you change half the ingredients!! I made this exactly as written... baked for 55 min. and it was totally "Bomb Dizzle!!!" Holy Cow! The only thing I did different, and I highly recommend trying, is, instead of greasing and flouring, grease, and coat with cinnamon sugar! Makes the whole crust taste like a muffin top! this stuff is amazing!
I have made this recipe twice. For some reason it does not rise right. The taste is perfect.my baking soda is fresh so I can't figure out what is wrong. Is anyone else having this problem?
Wonderful recipe! I, too, added 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp vanilla, and an extra 1/2 cup of walnuts. I also split the sugars between white and brown. This made 3 8x3" loaves (baked for 1 hour).
Oh me, oh my!!! In the name of watching my girlish figure, I substituted Splenda for the sugar, Smart Balance Light for the butter, and Egg Beaters for the eggs ... and I STILL can't stay away from it! Best of all, it's only 90 calories a serving with these alterations.
I couldn't resist this recipe for some reason. I passed on the one from this site with over 2000 reviews to see if this was as great as everyone said. The reviews on the "other" one were really mixed not like this which were mostly 4 and 5 stars unless something went wrong. I used 1 cup of white sugar and 1 of brown. Used 1 tsp. each vanilla and allspice and had just barely 2 cups of bananas (4 whole bananas)I mixed the butter sugar mixture really smooth and added 1/2 the bananas to that as well so some were chunkier and some smooth and i also whipped the 4 eggs with the beater to get them fluffy. Made one with walnuts and one without for picky family members. just by the smell and picking off part of the top i already knew it was going to be a hit! I was concerned with the amount of sugar but looks like i had nothing to worry about because it's fantastic!! Mine took exactly 1 hour and could have used about 55 minutes.
REDUCED FAT variety!! Holy COW is this GOOD!It's scary good! I have never in my life had better banana nut bread!I used Smart Balance instead of the butter, and I included the 1 tsp of baking powder, 1 tsp of cinn. and 1 tsp of vanilla as recommended by others. I made it in two loaf pans and it was done in 45 minutes. It is incredibly moist and not at all dense... very light. Perfect in every sense!Everybody who has had a slice immediately goes mmmmmmmmm...I had to force myself to stop eating it long enough to write this review!
