Banana bread by the beach
I am strange. I love fruit smoothies but I only eat 3 fruits (apples, strawberries and grapes). I go crazy for fruity desserts and I can’t get enough of banana bread despite really disliking eating bananas. In fact banana bread is one of my favourite breakfast foods. Since I started Claire K Creations last year I’ve been on the hunt for the perfect banana bread. I’ve tried four different recipes:
The fifth and most recent, recipe is the best so far. The crust crunches up beautifully when toasted and it’s dense and sweet and delicious.
The ingredients
There are quite a few ingredients in this recipe but the method is pretty simple.
Eggs and sugar
Start by beating together the sugar and eggs until they are light and fluffy. I think this helps make the crunchy crust. It makes meringue-like substance.
Oil
Pour the oil into the bow and stir it through.
Banana, sour cream and vanilla
Whisk in the sour cream and mashed banana.
Flour and spice and all things nice
Sift in the dry ingredients into the bowl and gently fold them through the rest of the batter.
Ready for baking
Pour the batter into the prepared tin. Bake the banana bread at 160C fan-forced for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Baked banana bread
Let the baked bread sit for 5 minutes.
Banana bread cooling
Turn it out on to a wire rack to cool. Although I serve it toasted, it’s best to let it cool completely before you eat it.
Banana bread
Serve sliced banana bread toasted and spread with butter. Enjoy!
Banana bread
The best banana bread yet - set in Sunshine Beach
Ingredients
- 1 2/3 cups plain AP flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup caster (superfine) sugar
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup oil (I used vegetable oil)
- 3 1/2 bananas, very ripe, mashed
- 2 tablespoons creme fraiche or sour cream (I used light sour cream)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Pre--heat the oven to 160C(320F) fan-forced.
- Grease and line a loaf tin with baking paper.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the eggs and sugars together until light and fluffy.
- Stir in the oil then the mashed bananas, sour cream and vanilla.
- Sift in the dry ingredients and fold them through.
- Transfer the batter to the prepared tin.
- Bake the bread for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until golden on top and a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Cool the bread on a wire rack.
- Serve toasted and spread with butter.
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Thanks Claire
Came home today to find Mr Somebody had taken one bite out of a banana and left it on the bench – it was starting to go that lovely brown colour that they do when left peeled and uneaten! So combined that banana with another from the fruitbowl that looked past its best and whipped up this recipe. Ta-da ! instant banana bread muffins :) Came out so perfect that I just had to write a reply to your post. So folks, this is the best recipe to date !
PS: I made mine into muffins (cook for 20 mins) because I had family dropping in and didn’t have time to bake it as a full loaf. Delicious!
Hi Karen. Thanks so much for sharing. I bet your family were rather happy to get a freshly-baked banana bread muffin!
That looks fabulous…In need of a good Banana Bread recipe for my bunch of very ripe bananas. This should shut my Hubby up!
I hope he likes it!
I smiled when you said you don’t like bananas but you like banana bread :) I’m always craving good and moist banana bread hehe yummy!
It’s a little bit pathetic isn’t it. I think it’s the texture of bananas that I don’t like cause I also like banana in my smoothies.
Oh, I love banana bread too and it’s so good sliced then toasted with melting butter for breakfast. Your loaf looks perfect!
I’ve still got more recipes to sample. It’s a tough life blogging isn’t it?
I love banana bread. I remember one of the very first events I held I have a banana bread bake off and there were so many delicious entries! This was of course not during the banana shortage :P
Banana bread bake off?!?! Why have I never done this before? What a brilliant idea.