Craig’s Famous Banana Bread
My husband’s easy banana bread recipe is one of the best! It will become your go-to banana bread recipe, I promise.
It’s rare that I share two dessert recipes in one week, but to be honest, it’s been one of those weeks when baked goods like this easy banana bread recipe just hit the spot! I love this particular recipe because it yields a moist and fluffy bread with a light texture.
Some banana breads are super dense, but not this one! It’s a classic banana bread, but I do include plenty of ideas for variations below so you can make it your own.
When my husband and I first started to date, I was amazed at how handy he was in the kitchen. My mother-in-law has an adventurous, loving spirit and the heart of a teacher. She has just the right disposition to encourage her two young babes to learn to cook without stressing about how messy the kitchen was, or whether or not the recipe came out perfect.
My husband is kind of famous for his banana bread! He isn’t a one trick pony, but this is by far his most requested dish.
Recipe Substitutions and Additions
I think this is the best banana bread recipe, and one reason why is that it’s pretty easy to customize! Here are a few ideas for you:
- If you don’t have enough large bananas, you can supplement with applesauce. You will need about 1/2 cup of applesauce for each banana.
- Make chocolate chip banana bread by adding 1/2 cup of mini chocolate chips or regular semi-sweet chocolate chips to the batter just before baking!
- Substitute light brown sugar as a 1:1 substitute for the white sugar.
- You can absolutely use unsalted butter, just add an extra pinch of salt to the batter.
- Add a handful of nuts! I love walnuts, chopped pecans or even macadamia nuts.
- Add a pinch of nutmeg and up to a teaspoon of cinnamon for warm spice.
I think that you’ll love this wonderful banana bread recipe!
If you make it, I’d love to hear how it went in the comments below.
Craig’s Famous Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 1 cup white sugar
- 8 tablespoons butter, salted, softened
- 2 large eggs
- 3 ripe bananas, mashed with a fork
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 cups flour
- 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
- In a mixing bowl, add sugar and butter. Cream with a mixer until well combined.
- Add eggs and mashed bananas, mix for 30 seconds. Do not overmix.
- Add milk, baking soda and salt, stir.
- To a separate mixing bowl, add flour and baking powder, whisk to combine.
- Add the flour mixture to the banana mixture in 1/3 cup ingredients, mixing gently to combine each time.
- Add batter to greased loaf pan and bake for one hour at 325 degrees.
- Allow to cool for about 15 minutes before slicing.
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Notes
If you love this Banana Bread recipe, I think you’ll also enjoy:
Just finished a bowl of fresh out of the oven, blackberry dump cake topped with a spoonful of vanilla ice cream. OMGoodness – Delicious! I hand picked the wild blackberries myself and have the scars to prove it. I think it made it that much more delicious knowing that. Thoroughly enjoyed the fruits of my labor, so to speak. I also like the fact there is only 3 Tablespoons of brown sugar used to sweeten the berries in the recipe. So easy to make. Thanks for sharing! 😋. I will definitely make again.
Diana
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