The Best Moist and Crunchy Banana Bread Recipe

There is only one logical thing to do when your bananas become too ripe. Banana Bread! And because it has a fruit as the star ingredient, it has to be healthy right? I think I’ve just convinced myself to make this recipe again hopefully it worked for you too.

If that wasn’t convincing enough than reading this recipe will. This banana bread is the perfect balance between moist and crunchy. It’s so good that it tastes better the next day in my opinion. But you’ll just have to make it and find out for yourself.

Banana Bread Ingredients

Banana bread has to be the easiest thing to make. It doesn’t need a lot of ingredients and you don’t need to dedicate a lot of time to making it either!

• Flour: I think this one is self-explanatory.
• Baking soda: Because we want our bread to rise obviously!
• Salt: Strangely enough, salt is always needed in any type of sweet dessert since it brings out the flavours!
• Cinnamon: Let’s be real, cinnamon makes every dessert taste better.
• Egg: Again, self-explanatory.
• Sugar: Well it can’t be too healthy right? Unfortunately everything that’s delicious has sugar in it.
• Vegetable oil: Now this is where the super moist characteristic comes from.
• Vanilla: Just like cinnamon, vanilla is essential in every thing that’s sweet.
• Bananas: The more ripe your bananas are, the sweeter your bread will be.
• Pecans: You can really use any type of nut you want I just prefer pecans. Usually walnuts are commonly used in banana bread.

The Process

First things first prepare you pan. You’ll want to use an 9×5 inch loaf pan and spray it with cooking spray. You can also use parchment paper to line the pan if you don’t trust your cooking spray to remove your bread. You will also need to preheat the oven to 325 degrees.

Now using a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon and whisk together until its well combined.

In another bowl, add the egg, sugar and oil. Mix it until its combined and thick. In a separate bowl or plate, mash the bananas until it no longer resembles a banana. Now you can start adding the dry ingredients to the wet ones. Once its all combined your mixture will be very dry and crumbly.

You can now add the mashed bananas, vanilla and buttermilk to the crumbly mixture. Once it’s all combined, fold in about 3/4 of the pecans into the mixture. You can then pour the mixture into your prepared loaf pan and sprinkle the remaining pecans on top.

Depending on your oven the baking time will vary. Around the hour mark start checking up on the banana bread every 5-10 minutes. It’ll be ready once a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

And that’s how you make the most delicious banana bread ever. Get familiar with this recipe because you’ll be makin git often once you realize just how good it is!

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