How to Cook Perfect Banana Bread

Banana Bread.

You can cook Banana Bread using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Banana Bread

1. Prepare 3 of ripe bananas.
2. You need 1/3 cup of melted butter or margarine.
3. Prepare 3/4 cup of sugar (half brown sugar, if desired).
4. You need 1 of eggs, beaten.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla.
6. It's 1 tsp of baking soda.
7. You need 1 pinch of salt.
8. You need 1 1/2 cup of flour.

Banana Bread step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Mash ripe bananas in a bowl.
3. Mix melted butter into bananas.
4. Add in sugar, eggs and vanilla. Mix well..
5. Sprinkle baking soda and salt over mixture. Stir thoroughly..
6. Add flour. Stir until just moistened..
7. Butter (or use cooking spray) loaf pan..
8. Pour mixture into prepared loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour at 350°F. Bread is done when a toothpick or table knife inserted into center comes out clean.
9. If using prepared muffin pan, bake at 350°F for approx. 25 min..
10. Cool in pans on cooling rack for 10 - 15 minutes. Loosen bread from sides with a knife, then remove from pan. Finish cooling on the rack. My family enjoys this sliced and served plain or with honey butter..