How To Make Banana Bread

This American banana bread impresses both children and adults. The most delicious way to use up overripe bananas imaginable!

Really juicy, soft, fruity, and with a slight taste of caramel: I could literally lie in this banana bread! As is typical of Banana Bread, it is more of a cake than a 'bread'. Nevertheless, it is something completely different from my normal sponge cake, which I can also highly recommend to you.

While German cake tends to be fluffy or has a similar texture to marble cake, Original Banana Bread from the US is much more "soggy" and moist. Both variants are quick and easy. And a delicious home for leftover, overripe bananas sadly rotting away in the fruit bowl as well 😉 . Murphy's Law: If you're making banana bread and you need black-speckled bananas, they stay firm and light yellow. I sometimes solved the problem by putting the bananas in the car when it was 30 degrees. It worked, but the interior also smelled like a banana plantation. The effort was worth it for this juicy banana bread. I love it! And all the test eaters (thanks to the children's birthday party) as well. The best banana bread was the unanimous opinion. But try it yourself!

Instead of white sugar, brown sugar, coconut sugar, or whole cane sugar belongs in the dough. This gives the banana bread a wonderful caramel aroma. You are wrong with this recipe if you want to bake particularly healthy. Be sure to check out my no-egg, no-sugar banana cake recipe, also known as “baby’s first birthday cake ” 😉 . Or the banana blondies and the vegan chocolate banana bread .

The best banana bread variants

If you get bored with the simple version, you can quickly modify the recipe. How about walnuts or cashews in the dough, for example? Or a banana bread with chocolate chunks? A little cinnamon or tonka bean in the batter doesn't hurt either. My mouth is watering again. So: Let's get started baking banana bread! Oh yes, the muffins, the chocolate banana cake from the tin, and the bowl cake with bananas are of course also delicious 🙂

banana bread

This delicious Banana Bread is incredibly moist and tastes slightly like caramel. The perfect use of leftovers for overripe bananas!

Ingredients/ for 8 people

• 3 very ripe bananas
• 225g flour
• 150g sugar
• 40 g crushed walnuts
• 2 eggs
• 1 handful of raisins
• 2 tablespoons of rum
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt

preparation

Preheat the oven to 175 degrees top and bottom heat. Grease a small loaf tin and dust with flour. Cut the very ripe bananas into small pieces and puree them. The pure pulp should be about 300g.

Cream the softened butter with the sugar. Mix in the eggs well one at a time. Mix flour with baking powder, salt and vanilla. Add alternately with the sour cream. Finally stir in the banana puree.

Pour the batter into the prepared form. Bake banana bread for about 55-60 minutes.