Quick Breads: Easy Banana Bread Recipe

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 Tbsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 2 med. mashed ripe bananas
  • 1/3 cup milk
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil (or applesauce as a substitution)
  • 1 egg

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350. Spray loaf pan with nonstick spray. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in med. bowl. Add remaining ingredients; stir just until dry ingredients are moistened. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 60 min. or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from oven to cooling rack.

Personally, I like to slather some cream cheese on a slice of this for breakfast or for a mid-morning snack. This is also a great addition to a brunch buffet. I've also wrapped up this bread and brought it along with a recipe and a greeting card when welcoming new neighbors to our street. And don't forget -- when making one loaf, why not make two and keep one in the freezer? That way you'll always have an extra loaf on-hand.

now this is just like my mom used to make. thank you. best yet mmmmmmmmmmmmm

i was a bit worried when i added in the wet ingredients (seemed too dry) but keep stirring, and this will turn out to be the best! thank you for posting this recipe!

Novice baker to say the LEAST! Had a few really super ripe naners hangin around and not a lot of ingredients to make a bread...I followed the recipe EXACTLY, except I used an 8 X 8 glass pyrex dish and reduced time to 45 min exactly.

I made this the other day. I added some chopped almonds too. Your recipe is great!! Thanks so much :-)

Great recipe for Banana Bread. I like to add blueberries to my Banana Bread!!!

This recipe is absolutely fantastic. I couldn't find any baking soda at the vacation rental house, so I gave this one a try. It was such a hit, I had to make it again! Very easy and it tastes great!

This recipe is fantastic! Like a previous poster mentioned, I make it in an 8 x 8 glass baking dish so I can control the serving size when I slice it up. I also stir in some chocolate chips. It gets rave reviews each and every time - and from some pretty picky eaters too!

Thanks, great recipe. Was out of baking soda so this was a great find. Was also out of oil, so substituted for a bit less margarine. I also added a tbsp. of vanilla extract, tbsp. of honey and about 3/4 cup sunflower seeds, it was insanely awesome. Thanks!

The best banana bread ever! So easy to make and so tasty. Thanks so much for this!

I just made this bread. added chopped hazelnuts & substituted butter for oil +1 tbls oil. I also used bron sugar instead of white and added a pich of cinnamon. Chez Magnifique' Delisioso!!! Thank you so much!!! Try it my way sometime.

Googled for a recipe w/o baking soda (since we were out) and found yours. Came out perfect! I added a 3rd ripened banana ...

awesome recipe thanks super yummy with berries added to ;)

Great easy recipe.. I added chopped walnuts. Instead, of making bread I made muffins and just baked until golden brown approximately 25 minutes at 350 degrees. My kids love them - Yum!!

This banana bread turned out awesome. It was easy to make and tastes great. I like to add different things each time i make it to spice it up and that makes it really fun.

I was out of baking soda and I came across your recipe. I made cupcakes using this recipe (only modification was adding one extra ripe banana)- they baked up in 20 min. I topped them with a peanut butter cream cheese frosting and they were AWESOME. Thanks!

came out great, going to add an extra banana next time.

Even came out good for me :-). DH refused to let me take it over to my parents house for a potluck dinner. Says he likes it too uh and afraid it won't be thesame the second time I make it

Excellent recipe!!!Have made it twice already. Also the 2nd time, I made it completely gluten free, substituted Rice and chick pea flour and added cinnamon and vanilla and pecan....Oh soooooo yummy!!!!!!!!!!

2nd review made with blueberries because I did not have nuts, and added whole weat flour!!! It was all gone the next morning

I loved making this. It was quick and easy. I added half tsp of ground cinnamon and tsp of vanilla. Turned out great!!

Great find, cooked also in a 8x8 pan and added white &chocolate chips,hubby loved them and asked me to bake more that next morning.

Great recipe! Substituted one cup all-purpose flour for whole wheat flour and it turned out great. You have to sift the whole wheat flour to keep it light and take 5 - 10 minutes off the baking time to keep it moist.

My bananas where getting waaaaaay ripe so I had to make something.

This was absolutely wonderful! I didn't have any baking soda! first recipe I saw and it turned out perfect! Thank you for sharing. I added some pecan pieces, a little vanilla extract, and a tad of vinegar.

This is Yummy!. I doubled to make 8 mini loaves. To the doubled batter I added 1 t. pumpkin pie spice, 1 t. vanilla, 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips & substituted ginger beer for milk. The loaves were short but not dense. Next time I'll make 6 loaves if I use the same pans.

IT WAS SOOOO GOOD!!!!!!! Thanks! Thank you soo much! We all loved it. And it was really easy to make! Thanks again!

Thanks alot came out lovely, added a tsp of vanilla essence and 2 Tsp of sour milk and 1 more banana... it came out so huge and tasty....

Really good and super easy! I added vanilla and walnuts. It was a little too much batter for my loaf pan. The texture was a little more like cake, but it tastes wonderful. Thanks!

I have been looking for an easy banana bread recipe and wasn't having any luck cause I was always out of something it called for, but I came across this recipe today and mixed everything together in 5 mins. its now baking and I cannot wait to try it. Just reading all the reviews I know its going to be delish. Thanks for your recipe!

Easy ingrediants, easy to make.....and tasted the best i ever had. Thanxs

loved the recipie!! I used it in a mini loaf pan that yields 6 loafs and baked for 32 min's.. Absolutely amazing. Family/co-workers loved them. also tried with chocolate chips and raisin mixed in what a hit.

This is the shit...make it for the roomies all the time

I used 1/2 tsp ginger, 1 tsp nutmeg and 1 tsp vanilla, and halved the sugar to make this and it came out excellent. 1/2 Cup sugar with two ripe bananas makes a sweet and nice bread.

This bread is amazing. My brother was cutting off HUGE slabs of breads. It tastes amazing. I added blueberries and raspberries and they dried out inside the bread making a raisiny type thing that tasted delicious. I'm going to try making grape bread with this recipie next.

First time with the recipe, it's in the oven now. I added a ton of walnuts. (What is banana bread without them!) It smells DELICIOUS!

I made this and added a brown sugar/cinnamon topping. YUMMY