So you have been after a Banana Bread recipe? Well, this is the one you need. It’s not cake, it’s real banana bread, just like you get at your favourite cafe. It has great banana taste but just the perfect texture you want for a Banana Bread
Many people have asked me for a recipe and I realized I’d never published one. I have this one. It’s the perfect banana “bread “recipe.
I love it because it’s not cake. It’s the kind of banana loaf you can toast. The kind I can smother in caramel sauce microwave and eat with ice cream while watching TV at night (Who said that?). REAL Banana bread. This is the kind of bread you cut into thick slices and wrap well to put into the freezer so that you can have banana bread any time you want.
I am not kidding, I thought no one would be interested in making Banana Bread that daggy old cafe favourite, and then along comes isolation and everyone wants to make it.
There are so many Banana Bread recipes. What’s the difference?
There are plenty of stir together banana bread recipes out there. This isn’t one of them. You start this cake with creamed butter and sugar. This builds the structure for a bread you can slice and toast. Stir together cakes are easy but they always end up cakey and crumbly.
If you don’t have a mixer, bring the butter to room temperature before whisking it in a bowl with the sugar and golden syrup. Cream it till it’s light then add the eggs one at a time. Stir in the crushed banana and then the dry mix until just mixed together. It’s best not to overmix a cake mixture like this it gets tough.
Make this Banana Bread recipe your own.
Why not make this Banana Loaf your signature loaf? You can add all kinds of things to it. Start with simple things like spices or chocolate chips, dried fruit and nuts. Try cardamom or mixed spice, nutmeg, walnuts, almonds, currants or pistachios. I like to add Pepita seeds to the top of my loaf. But you could add flaked almonds, banana chips or coconut. You could also lightly stir through some chopped pear, dried apricots or raspberries once it is in the tin and ready. Just bury them gently just under the top using a teaspoon.
I know it seems like there might be a lot of sugar in this banana bread but it doesn’t taste sweet at all. the golden syrup and the small amount of butter helps the bread brown nicely when in the toaster
Give this recipe a try and give these ones a try too!
Date and Walnut Roll
Blood Orange Loaf cake
Caramel Sauce, salted.
Banana bread recipe. The toasting kind
Ingredients
- 125 gm butter softened
- 180 gm brown sugar 1 cup
- 80 gm golden syrup or honey | 1/4 cup
- 420 gm bananas 4 large or 6 small | 2 cups
- 2 eggs extra large, beaten
- 260 gm flour plain, 1 3/4 cups
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon optional
- 2 tablespoons pepita seeds
Instructions
- Set the oven to 160C. Line a loaf tine approx. 10 x 21 cm (4 x 9 in)
- Mash the banana and measure out 420gm (2 cups). Set aside
- Sift together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and baking soda.
- Cream the butter brown sugar and golden syrup till light and creamy. Add the eggs one at a time and mix. The mixture may look curdled between additions if so add a Tablespoon of the flour mixture.
- Add the bananas to the egg mixture and add the flour and mix till only just combined.
- Spoon into the loaf tin and bake for up to 60 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean
Notes
Hi Tania, I am excited to try this, I have been looking for a banana bread I can toast.
Do you think I could substitute the plain flour for almond flour? If so would the quantities be the same?
Thanks so much in advance, Margi
Hi Margi
You cannot make this bread with almond flour/ meal.
This recipe is for yeasted bread. The recipe depends on the gluten in the flour to prove and rise
Tania
Amazing recipe Tanya. Merci !Miam miam. I did put less sugar and went half half butter / vegetable oil and also added walnuts haha
delicious! some days i crave my banana bread cold, but most of the time i like it toasted with butter. your recipe looks awesome!
This was such a lovely recipe to try out and the funny part is that I am not even a good cook / baker, I am just trying this for my wife during lockdown, and really enjoyed the process and the step by step recipe really helped me go through it :). Much appreciation from India, and thank you for posting such awesome blogs with beautiful images (drool dripping down :P).
Hope to try out more in the near future.
Stay Safe !!!
Thank you for your really lovely response. I am so happy you got to make banana cake for your wife! Hope you are staying safe yourself in India!!
Wow, never thought about a toasted Banana Bread. This looks so good. Bookmarking it:). You have a lovely blog!
Hi Nithya. Toasted banana bread was a big thing here a few years ago. It is very delicious with lots of butter!
We love banana bread and this one definitely looks like a winner with 6 bananas in it! I usually baked mine with 4 huge bananas. Must give this one a try soon. Love that one with dates and walnuts too. Thank you for sharing, Tania, and have a most wonderful weekend!