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Shannon's Banana Bread

Shannon's Banana Bread

I met a woman on a message board who posted this recipe, titling the post, "The Best Banana Bread You'll Ever Eat." She wasn't lying. Four years later, all us women from that message board still talk about the banana bread.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings: 10
Course: Bread
Cuisine: American
Calories: 280
Ingredients Method Nutrition Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups flour (whole wheat or white, your preference)
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon Kosher or sea salt
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 whole stick room temp butter (no subs)
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs (room temp)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 3 medium/large bananas, mashed
  • ½ cup sour cream (I use plain yogurt)
  • ½ cup chopped nuts (optional, pecans or walnuts)

Method
 

  1. Line the bread pan with parchment paper. This will keep your loaf pan clean, and it will make it really easy to remove the bread. You can grease and flour it if you'd rather.
  2. Heat oven to 325°F.
  3. Mash bananas. I use a potato masher. I've used a food processor before.
  4. In a small bowl combine and sift dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt. Set aside.
  5. In the mixer bowl cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, then the vanilla.
  6. In another bowl, stir the sour cream (or yogurt) into the mashed bananas.
  7. Using a wooden spoon, blend ⅓ of dry ingredients into the butter mix. Then add ⅓ of the banana mix into the butter mix. Keep doing this until both dry ingredients and banana mixture are gone. Add the nuts. Give a good quick stir, trying not to handle or stir the batter too much.
  8. Scrape batter into loaf pan and smooth top with the spoon. Bake in center of oven for 70-75 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
  9. Cool for a few minutes then remove from pan and finish cooling on a wire cooling rack.

Nutrition

Calories: 280kcalCarbohydrates: 50gProtein: 6gFat: 7gSaturated Fat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 40mgSodium: 177mgPotassium: 225mgFiber: 2gSugar: 25gVitamin A: 146IUVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 53mgIron: 2mg

Notes

Makes 1 loaf. This recipe will also make four miniature loaves.
Low in sodium, with no trans fats.

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