The Only Banana Bread Recipe You'll Ever Need

By ngaldi

I’ve got a bunch of them on my counter Right This Minute.  Spotted, slightly squishy, forlorn-looking bananas, just calling out to be cooked into something banana-wonderful.  And while I have a whole pile of banana-rific recipes, sometimes there is nothing like warm, tender, sweet-smelling, classic banana bread…the kind that bakes up with a nice long furrow in the middle, the kind with little flecks of banana in each slice, the kind your mama used to make.  So grab those weary bananas…here’s the that banana bread recipe you need!

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup butter at room temperature
• 2 eggs, slightly beaten
• 3 ripe bananas, mashed (about 1 1/2 cups)
• 1/3 cup vanilla yogurt
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from framedcooks.com

Preparation

Step 1

1. Preheat oven to 350 and grease a 8x4 inch loaf pan with butter or cooking spray. 2. Combine flour, salt and baking soda in a large mixing bowl, stirring gently with a whisk. 3. Combine sugar, butter, eggs, bananas and yogurt in another bowl, and stir vigorously until well combined. 4. Pour banana mixture into flour mixture and stir until no flour streaks remain. Scrape batter into loaf pan and bake for one hour or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. 5. Cool in the pan for about 15 minutes, and then remove from the pan and continue cooling on a rack. Make sure to eat a piece while it is still warm, and make sure you try a piece toasted before it's all gone!