The Best Banana Bread Recipe

This truly is The Best Banana Bread Recipe ever.  Loaded with bananas to make it moist and delicious and then topped with a coffee cake crumble and light vanilla glaze, your dessert will turn into morning breakfast after your first bite.

If you love to bake and love rich delicious desserts you should also try The Best Texas Sheet Cake, Caramel Pumpkin Brownie Skillet, or these super fudgy Peppermint Patty Stuffed Brownies, which are my favorite!

Best Banana Bread Recipe

I can’t say I am a huge baker, but this banana bread recipe right here is amazing and worth ever second it took to make.  Having said that, I do love to bake I just don’t do it as often I would like, but having my mom in town got me excited to make one of her favorite desserts or in her case I should say breakfasts!  This truly is The Best Banana Bread Recipe and I know you will love it too. 

I always go to the store and buy bananas, one because I love to mix them in my protein drinks, but I always have so many aspirations to bake all kinds of things with them, but then it never happens.  So one of the perfect things about banana bread is that we actually get to use those brown, soft, squishy bananas we would otherwise toss before the fruit flies start to congregate.  Not too many desserts call for “brown” fruit.

How Should bananas look for banana bread?

Be patient and don’t start using the bananas once you see a few dark spots on them.  You want the bananas to be really ripe and brown all over.  This will give your bread that delicious banana flavor.  Once your bananas reach a black color I wouldn’t use them, that is an indication that they are overripe.

How do I ripen green bananas quickly?

The best way to ripen green bananas is indeed placing them in a brown paper bag closed loosely.  Another little trick is to place a piece of fruit that is rip in the bag with it as well.

What can you serve with banana bread?

There are many different things you can serve with or spread on banana bread, here are some suggestions.

• butter, apple butter, honey butter, or pumpkin butter
• peanut butter
• nutella
• berry preserves
• sliced bananas
• whipped cream
• ice cream
• hot fudge, caramel, or vanilla topping

Tips for making The Best Banana Bread Recipe:

1. Don’t over mix the wet and dry ingredients, just fold it all to incorporate well.
2. Always use overly ripe, brown bananas.
3. Avoid using bananas that are too ripe and are black.
4. When baking check the bread and when a toothpick comes out almost clean, remove from oven.
5. Make sure to spray your bread pan with nonstick spray and then add a little flour and shake the pan around to cover the pan.  Dump out any loose flour so your loaf doesn’t stick.
6. Allow the bread to cool just a bit before removing from pan.

Not only is this banana bread super moist it is topped with an amazing brown sugar crumble and glazed for that little kick of sweetness.  It almost reminds me of coffee cake with the cinnamon, vanilla, and nutmeg flavors.  So be patient and let those bananas ripen, because The Best Banana Bread Recipe awaits those brown bananas.

Looking for more delicious desserts?

• Triple Chip Caramel Brownies
• Hot Buttered Rum Batter
• Chocolate Gravy and Biscuits
• Crockpot Chocolate Peanut Clusters
• Easy Salted Caramel Pumpkin Cupcakes

The Best Banana Bread Recipe

Yield: 1 loaf

Total Time: 1hr, 10 minutes

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 60 minutes

This truly is The Best Banana Bread Recipe ever.  Loaded with bananas to make it moist and delicious and then topped with a coffee cake crumble and light vanilla glaze, your dessert will turn into morning breakfast after your first bite.

Print Recipe

Ingredients:

• 4 ripe bananas, mashed
• 3 tbsp light brown sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp plain yogurt

For the Crumble topping:

• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• 6 tbsp butter, melted
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar

For the glaze:

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 tbsp milk

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, and flour your bread pan.
2. In a small bowl mash bananas and add light brown sugar, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and nutmeg, mix to combine, set aside.
3. In a separate large bowl cream sugar and butter.  Add in eggs and mix until blended.  Then add in flour, baking soda, and salt.  Fold ingredients in until blended and then add in the yogurt and mix again.
4. Add in the mashed banana mixture and gently mix to combine.
5. Pour into a bread pan.
6. For the crumble topping: mix together all ingredients until it resembles medium sized crumbs.  Spread evenly over batter.
7. Cook for 1 hour and let cool before removing from pan.  Flip the pan over and give it a little shake to get the bread to come out.
8. Combine all the ingredients for the glaze and place it into a sealable plastic bag and cut the tip off.  Pipe over banana bread, slice and serve.

Calories per serving/420

Serving = 1 slice, approximately 6 slices per loaf.

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