I really liked this recipe! It was easy, quick, and yummy, as advertised! Thanks for sharing it! :-D

Thank you so much for the wonderful receipe. Quick, easy, delicious! I am on our 2nd batch this week! :-D

Great recipe. I made one small change while playing around one afternoon and it turned out quite tasty

I changed
1 1/3 cup all-purpose unbleached flour

to
1 cup all-purpose unbleached flour
1/3 cup Soy flour

Turned out quite moist and was still quite fresh for teh 5 days it took to eat it all

That's funny -- the only banana bread I make is from "The Joy of Cooking". The JC one is a bit different than yours (I know it calls for grated lemon peel, but if I don't have that I use pure lemon extract), though I am sure it comes out just as good. I agree that the taste is much better with butter than oil. My family also likes the fact it stays lighter than traditional banana bread (maybe because of the lemon). All I know is that I love it the next day, toasted with butter and honey.

Hmmm not a fan of banana bread myself but bowed to requests to bake "different" cakes on my birthday (yes the wrong way round I know but a work tradition - bring in cake on your birthday).

So, one lemon and lime drizzle cake and box of chcoclate brownies later and worried about there being enough choice I found myself looking at the two bananas going brown in the heat (NICE WARM ENGLISH WEATHER!!!). A quick scan of the available options came up with Green and Black's white chocolate, banana and walnut loaf. Dead easy. Topped with white chocolate fondant icing. The picture is rubbish because it doesn't show how dark and moist the cake looks - it certainly smells of bananas.

I'll post my colleagues response tomorrow - as long as they say nice things :}

This is next on my list, But I warn you I put yogurt in 'bout everything I bake/cook. Place I work has a commercial kitchen, they throw out bananas that are too old. I'm there to catch um. Peel um, mash um, throw alittle lemon juice in, then vacuum seal them in pint jars for the freezer. I've never heard of such a thing as a bad banana. I usually acquire 5 to 6 bunches every couple weeks. That's way more bananas than I and wifey can eat so everybodies gonna get banana bread w/yogurt for gifts. Actually, I prefer WW Banana Blueberry Muffins myself. . .wifey says they're too heavy still, so not ready to share receipe yet. . .but, I'm eating my way to it soon.

Cheers,

OTRPU

Great recipe ! Easy, quick and delicious .

Good idea to bake it in small loaf pans !!

Thanks for that recipe

Thanks Floyd, great recipe! I used ww pastry flour, sucanat and sea salt. Delicious! I liked the idea for small loaf pans, too. Jen

What a simple recipe, Floyd - and it tastes very good.  Took me longer to do the dishes than to put it together.  Now I have a reason to buy the smaller pans.  I bet one could use muffin tins too.

I toasted the walnuts to about 80% a normal toasting.  Great Flavor.

SD Baker

Hi, thanks for sharing this recipe. I love how simple it is. I do have a question though. . I live in a tropical country (Indonesia to be exact) so the temperature is rather humid. I don't know if this is a factor but my bread came out rather moist. I looked at the picture you posted and it has a really nice dark brown crust with yellowish inside and mine is rather light all over.
I did it rather differently though, instead of putting it into smaller pans I put it into muffin pans. Again I'm not sure if that would make any difference.
I guess my question is, why does my banana bread came out looking a little unappetizing (in my opinion). How do I make it so it can come out with the darker shade of brown on the outside and yellowish on the inside.
Thank you.
ps. the taste is great though ;-)

Hi, my guess is that a slightly higher temperature will give you more color.  How does your oven do with other recipes?  Many home ovens tend to run a bit hotter or colder than the stated temperature. 

A high humidity environment definitely affects bread, as I'm sure you know. Since you can't cut back on the liquids very easily, you might try increasing the flour by a tablespoon or two.

I tend to use lemon juice in my recipe and I also use sour cream which seems to keep the bread very moist for a number of days afterward.  I'll have to work on the measure ments as I tend to make it so often that I now just do it by feel.  I haven't gotten any reduced bananas lately which is when I tend to make the bread.  But keep watching...

Mysticbunny 

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i have made many, many loaves of banana bread. i am quite pleased with how it turned out. i baked it in mini bundt cake pans and the baby shower was a hit.
gracias gracias
anyone have tips on posting pics? i have one for this recipe but can't figure it out.... much better with bread than html..
much love

mamaste, I'd love to see pics of your bread.  Do you see the FAQ at the top of the page?  There's something in there that explains how to upload your pictures.  I hear you on the HTML!

Floyd, I am making another batch of this bread now.  I love it.  It so happens that I had knee surgery yesterday and this recipe is about at the limits of my ability for the moment.  

I have a method for storing old bananas I'd like to share, and many of you probably already do this - as the bannana gets the point where I have to make bread or throw them out, I place  them in the freezer as-is, not peeled in a bag.  When you need 2 or 3 for this recipe (I use 3), simply place them in the refrigerator the evening before you will need it.  The next day it will be soft.  Simply cut off the tip like a cigar, and it will easily squeeze out, dicard the skin.

 SD Baker

Hi All,

I use 1 3/4 cup flour, 1/2 cup butter (1 stick softened), 1/4 tsp salt, 1/2 cup drk brown sugar and 1/4 cup white sugar and lastley...

1/4 cup natural peanut butter.

Otherwise, same recipe. GREAT FLAVOR! Reminds me of banana peanut-butter sandwiches I toast on a cold morning for breakfast. Moist, too.

pincupot

On a hunch, I added as extra about between 1/4 of a cup and 1/3 cup of good quality dutch cocoa to this and a half a cup of chopped pecans.

I didn't add any extra sugar, as I felt the recipe had enough, and let me tell you this was a devine combination.  

I was a little surprised at how smooth the cocoa was; it really didn't require any extra sugar at all. It makes me wonder now if, sans cocoa, the sugar could be reduced a little... 

I substituted oil for butter, increased egg and baking powder amounts and blitzed everything in a food processor.

20 second Banana Bread! 

Turned out with a finer texture than the banana bread I normally make but can't beat it for quick and easy!

I am looking forward to making this banana bread, but I had some comments on storing overripe 'naners.  I have also frozen bananas just as SKbaker does, and this work fine.  Since it's just my hubby and me now, bananas tend to go dark before we can get to them.  So we hardly buy them anymore.  Because of that, I now always have on hand 3-4 jars of "baby food bananas" which are, afterall, 100% bananas without preservatives. Doing this, I can always make banana bread whenever the urge strikes!

I subsituted the 2/3 cup of sugar with 1/4 cup brown sugar and 1/4 cup honey. I baked them in mini fluted silicon moulds for 15 min on 200 deg C, reduce to 180 deg C and bake for another 5-10 min . When cooled I iced them with cream cheese topping & toasted almond bits. Mixture of Philadelphia cream cheese, icing sugar, lemon juice & zest. This is great!

I tried the topping with melted dark chocolate mixed with sour cream. Not as good as the cream cheese topping.

Mini Banana Bread

My family loves this one. It is simple and we can have it after dinner at the last minute!

I am saving this one although I think my husband knows it by heart now! So I can just ask him for the recipe. 

Thank you,

Connie C 

Hmmm... Bananas ffrom baby food jars?  Never knew! Will have to try it! 

If you like spiced banana bread this is really really good. It's my absolute favorite recipe for banana bread (and I've tried quite a few)...

2 cups all purpose flour, 1/2 cup margarine, 1 cup white sugar, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 4 tablespoons milk, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1 teaspoon ground ginger, 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice, 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg, 1 cup mashed bananas, 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, 8 chopped dried figs 

http://www.banana-bread.biz/spiced-fig-walnut-banana-bread/

The 10 minute banana bread recipe was excellent.  I tried it again adding a couple of stocks of rhubarb that I had parboiled and at least in my opinion, I elevated the recipe a couple of notches north.  My grandchildren loved it anyway!  Bill Craig

My girlfriend made this recipe last night and we are thoroughly enjoying it this morning for breakfast!

regards

ben and meryl

This is a great recipe. Quick. Easy. Good results.

I made it for the second time this evening. Based on my first experience a couple weeks ago, I did make a few modifications:

1. I melted the butter. 1/2 stick from freezer. 2 minutes in the microwave.

2. I mixed in a KitchenAid using my new beater blade. No scraping down the bowl! Much time saved.

These are available from Sur la Table, KAF and, probably, other places. Highly recommended!

3. The first try, according to Floyd's recipe, tasted salty to us. I left out the salt entirely and preferred the result. I might sneak in a smidgen next time. 

4. I used 1 cup of AP flour (WFM 365 Organic) and 1/3 cup Giusto's Organic WW Pastry Flour.

I used a generous handful of toasted, broken up pecans.

I used 3 pretty big bananas and 2 extra large eggs. As a result, the batter was wetter than the original and required 65 minutes at 350F. It probably could have used another 5 minutes.

The result was much lighter than my first bake. I did cream the sugar and butter well, which contributed as well as the increased proportion of banana and egg.

Next time, I think I'll try it with at least some brown sugar. (I used unrefined sugar this time.)

Good eating.

Thanks Floyd!

David

I always make a new recipe to the exact instructions the first time and I have to say this was reallt great banana bread and really easy too. Then I read everyones comments and got excited.  I used brown sugar, melted butter and about a tablespoon of lemon zest. I also used large muffin pans instead of two small loaf pans. They came out perfectly moist and very flavorful!

As I just moved into a new apartment and have no kitchen equipment, I thought I'd try this really quick recipe.  I made it with a sauce pan for a mixing bowl, no cinnamon, and a 'make do' enamalled serving dish to bake in.  It still came out wonderfully!  Thanks for the great recipe.

Cheers to a great recipe.  Not only is this quick to make, but so delicious that I'm making it again today (I made it last night for the first time).  A few things to note.  I didn't have baking powder and it was not missed at all.  Secondly, today I am leaving out the salt, as the butter makes it taste salty enough ... just perfect.

Also, I am cooking this recipe today in a 13 x 9 pirex cake disk and calling it banana cake today.  The consistency is very cakelike.

I used this recipe to bake a double portion yesterday.  It's all gone!  Really good and easy.  Thank you for the recipe.  I blogged about it in my blog here.

Used the recipe for my friend's birthday.  I added walnut crumbs, flax seeds, raisins and quick oats.  Took almost 45 minutes to bake those mini loaves but they turned out great.  My friend got two loaves and she was very happy and said they were amazing!  I kept one small loaf for my husband.  He came home, had a bite and said "Wow, this is GOOD!". 

Definitely will make them again.  Thanks for the great recipe!

Al

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I cut a stock of bananas down last week and was giving bananas away to everybody. Kind of like trying to get rid of zucchini when you plant too much! The last were getting to that point and started freezing some for those in between stretches when the bananas aren't ready. This morning I came across Floyd's recipe and figured while the oven was hot already, I might as well give this recipe a go. Glad I did too! For a simple recipe the flavor is amazing. I did cut back the salt to just 1/2t.and added a heaping 1/4c of chopped walnuts. I used 3 dwarf apple bananas and will be interested in how the Williams will taste when they get ripe.

What?? You don't have bananas hanging on your lanai??

The top got a little flattened when it came out of the pan. Didn't have time to cool it down as there was a loaf waiting for the pan!!

Look at the nuts! Love nuts in my sweet breads!

Thanks for the recipe!  This is officially my favorite recipe for banana bread - ever!  It was so quick and easy to make and turned out super moist & flavorful!   The only thing that happened, which was mentioned could happen in the paragraphs above the recipe, is that in the 50 minutes it baked the outside edges were crispy but the middle was still slightly mushy.  I took the bread out of the oven anyway and it firmed up some more as it sat there.  Next time I will try making two mini-loaves as suggested.  Either way, it's still my favorite recipe and I would give it 5 stars if there was a star rating system!  :)

I made this recipe last night for my children. But due to severe food allergies I used soy flour, and oil and it is wonderfully moist. I do not own any loaf pans so made them into muffins and it was a big hit with my family. Out the door they went this morning with their banana bread/muffins in hand. Thank you for this great and fast recipe.