Very Best Banana Bread Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Spray one 9x5 inch loaf pan with non-stick spray coating.
• Blend together the eggs, buttermilk, oil and bananas.
• Sift together the sugar, flour, baking soda and salt. Add to banana mixture and stir in pecans. Mix well.
• Pour into prepared loaf pan and bake 1 hour and 20 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. In another bowl, combine the eggs, bananas, oil, buttermilk and vanilla; add to flour mixture, stirring just until combined. Fold in nuts. , Pour into a greased or parchment-lined 9x5-in. loaf pan. If desired, sprinkle with additional walnuts. Bake until a toothpick comes out clean, 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 hours. Cool in pan for 15 minutes before removing to a wire rack.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Cream butter and sugar; mash bananas, beat 2 eggs and add to the bananas with vanilla and buttermilk; mix well and add to creamed butter and sugar; sift together flour, soda and salt; add to banana mixture, beat well; pour into 2 greased and floured 9x5x3-inch loaf pans; bake 45 to 50 minutes (I find this bread needs over an hour) or until bread pulls away from sides of pan; add topping.
• To prepare Topping: Melt butter in saucepan; add sugar and milk; cook until syrupy (like honey); remove from heat and add chopped pecans; pour over bread spreading to all the corners and place under broiler until bubbly and brown.
• Watch closely (this takes around 1 minute- maybe even less!).

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
• Spray two 9 X 5 inch loaf pans with non-stick cooking spray.
• Using your food processor, puree the bananas, then remove the puree to another bowl and set aside.
• No need to clean the work bowl of your food processor, just add together and blend well the sugar, oil, eggs and vanilla.
• Takes about 1 minute.
• Measure and mix together, in a separate bowl, all the dry ingredients except the nuts.
• Return banana puree to processor work bowl.
• Add dry ingredients and blend, pouring in the coca cola as mixture is blending together.
• Blend until smooth, about 1 minute.
• Blend in nuts by hand.
• Divide mixture between the two loaf pans.
• Place loaf pans on a baking sheet in the oven.
• Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes OR until loaves test done in the middle with a toothpick.
• Let cool about 10-15 minutes then turn loaves out of pans to finish cooling.
• These loaves keep well or can be frozen.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9x5 inch pan.
• Cream margarine and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs, then bananas. Add flour and soda, stirring just until combined.
• Pour into prepared pan and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 1 hour (or till toothpick comes out clean). Remove from pan and let cool, store in refrigerator or freeze.