Servings: 10
Start to finish: 1 hour 15 minutes, plus cooling time
Prepare Ingredients:
Vegetable oil spray
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 very ripe bananas (skins should be speckled black)
3/4 cup sugar
2 large eggs
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1/4 cup plain yogurt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Gather Cooking Equipment
8 1/2-by-4 1/2-inch metal loaf pan
2 bowls (1 medium, 1 large)
Whisk
Large fork or potato masher
Rubber spatula
Toothpick
Oven mitts
Cooling rack
Cutting board
Chef’s knife
Start Cooking!
Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 F. Spray bottom and sides of 8 1/2-by-4 1/2-inch metal loaf pan with vegetable oil spray.
In medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt.
Peel bananas and place in large bowl. Use large fork or potato masher to mash bananas until broken down but still chunky.
Add sugar, eggs, melted butter, yogurt, and vanilla to bowl with bananas and whisk until combined.
Add flour mixture and use rubber spatula to gently stir until just combined and no dry flour is visible. Do not overmix_batter should look thick and chunky. Use rubber spatula to scrape batter into greased loaf pan and smooth top.
Place loaf pan in oven. Bake until banana bread is golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 55 minutes.
Use oven mitts to remove banana bread from oven (ask an adult for help). Place loaf pan on cooling rack and let banana bread cool in pan for 15 minutes.
Use oven mitts to carefully turn loaf pan on its side and remove banana bread from pan. Let banana bread cool on cooling rack for at least 1 hour. Transfer to cutting board, slice, and serve.
Make It Your Way
Dress up banana bread with nuts, spices, citrus zest, or chocolate.
— Nutty Banana Bread
Stir 1/2 cup walnuts, toasted and chopped, into batter along with flour mixture.
— Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
Stir 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips into batter along with flour mixture.
Nutrition information per serving: 260 calories; 74 calories from fat; 8 g fat (5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 62 mg cholesterol; 228 mg sodium; 43 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 20 g sugar; 4 g protein.
For more recipes, cooking tips and ingredient and product reviews, visit https://www.americastestkitchen.com. Find more recipes like Banana Bread in “Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs .”
America’s Test Kitchen provided this article to The Associated Press.
