Moist banana bread for the bread machine. All the flavor less of the work!
Lovely soft delicious bread. Works fine with walnuts on Rapid cycle. Husband loved it!
Read MoreI used ripe bananas and slightly less banana than called for. I notice now that the recipe calls for mashed banana--presumably not ripe. The dough was runny. It rose over the top of the pan and oozed down the sides. I had to scrape it out to control the burning. In 13 years of using bread machines, this is the first time I have seen this. The bread tasted good and had a nice crust to it where it touched the pan. I used 2/3 cup of pecans instead of macadamia nuts. The pecans gave the bread a slightly characteristically bitter flavor.
Read More Lovely soft delicious bread. Works fine with walnuts on Rapid cycle. Husband loved it!
I used ripe bananas and slightly less banana than called for. I notice now that the recipe calls for mashed banana--presumably not ripe. The dough was runny. It rose over the top of the pan and oozed down the sides. I had to scrape it out to control the burning. In 13 years of using bread machines, this is the first time I have seen this. The bread tasted good and had a nice crust to it where it touched the pan. I used 2/3 cup of pecans instead of macadamia nuts. The pecans gave the bread a slightly characteristically bitter flavor.
This came out great! I added 1/2 cup of sweetened coconut flakes and it was perfect. It was moist with a subtle banana flavor and just sweet enough. Next time I'll reduce the flour to 3 cups due to the bread rising too high.
This bread wasn't what I expected it to be. I was looking for a traditional banana bread. It was more like a regular loaf of bread. I guess it was the yeast. I should have known that. However, it tasted very good. It was moist and had a nice banana flavor. Just not what I was looking for.
It was OK, and nice light texture, but definitely won't do again. I was looking forward to using my macadamia nuts given to me by Australian visitors, but think this was a waste of them. Could not taste banana at all, and not suitable for sandwiches etc. Thanks for the suggestion though - willing to try most things!
I didn't care that much for it. couldn't taste the bananas at all and I used ripe bananas.looking for a recipe almost similar to the one you would buy in a store. I wouldn't make this one again.
I thought this was really good even though I kinda messed it up a bit. I used 2 very ripe bananas which, when mashed, measured out to be almost 1 cup. I cut back a bit on the water due to that. And I veganized it by subbing grapeseed oil for the butter and flaxseed/water for the egg (I didn't have any eggs so I figured what the heck). I also used an unprocessed cane sugar rather than white sugar and added 2 or 3 tablespoons of grapeseed flour for some of the bread flour. And I added a bit of vanilla paste to round our the flavor. I did have to add about 4 cups or so of flour. It smelled great when baking, and the finished product tastes great. Toasted with PB for breakfast...yummy!! Oh, and I did this by hand rathr than a bread machine...just threw everything into my KA stand mixer.
I'm pretty sure the yeast quantity is wrong. My bread overflowed the breadmaker. I suggest using only 1tsp, and maybe even less than that. Use the instructions that came with your machine as a guide. I had to rescue the partially baked dough and dump it onto a cookie sheet to finish baking it in a conventional oven. So it came out as a kind of large ugly lump. It tasted pretty good though! It was a little underdone, so I recommend careful probing with a cake tester. Some other reviewers noted the lack of banana flavor - my bread had an attractive and subtle banana undertone. I liked it but I guess everyone's taste is different.
After reading the reviews I made several changes. If it's not listed, then it stayed the same: 1/2c water 1c overripe banana 3c bread flour 3tbs brown sugar 1tsp yeast It turned out perfectly for a 2lb loaf in my bread machine. Moist and "banana-y" Only 3* because of all the changes made.
I just made this recipe and had the same problem other people had, it overflowed in my bread machine. I had to dump it into a pan and put it in the oven.
This is a good recipe. It needs some changes to be successful. As is, it will create a mess for you in your bread machine. Cutting the ingredients in half may be a solution, or, as some people have suggested... using the quick bake on your bread maker make be a solution as well as it would give the bread less time to rise. I did cut the flour and still had some run off. If I cut it much more, I may have had a consistency issue. Please note, you are using yeast, this is not banana bread. This is going to be a great bread for making sandwiches, however! And also very simple to make. Very light on the banana flavor, so don't let that throw you! Next time I make this, I'm going to do a half recipe! It's very good and a great texture!
