Banana Walnut Bread
Delicious banana walnut bread recipe, very soft and moist texture with chopped walnut (for a 10 inch / 25 cm loaf cake - 10 servings)
Ingredients
- 3ripe bananas - about 350 g
- 115 gbutter - unsalted and softened
- 100 gsugar - granulated
- 50 gbrown sugar
- 2eggs - room temperature
- 1 teaspoonvanilla extract
- 120 mlbuttermilk - or plain yogurt
- 200 gflour - all-purpose
- 1 tsp.baking soda
- ½ tspsalt
- 1 teaspooncinnamon ground - optional
- 100 gchopped walnut - or pecan
Directions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 350°F / 180°C and line a 10 inch/ 25 cm long rectangular loaf pan with parchment paper.
- 2
Mash the chopped bananas in a bowl with a fork until you have a puree with a few pieces left.
- 3
Place the softened butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar in a large bowl and mix with an electric mixer for at least 2 minutes until creamy and smooth.
- 4
Add the eggs and vanilla and mix again for a good minute to incorporate.
- 5
Then add the buttermilk and mashed bananas and mix again with the mixer.
- 6
Finish with the dry ingredients, flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon ground and crushed nuts and gently fold in with a rubber spatula until you have a smooth cake batter.
- 7
Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake for 45 to 55 minutes until golden brown on top. (Check for baking with a knife blade or toothpick dipped in the center, it should come out clean with no liquid batter)
- 8
Let the banana nut cake cool in the pan before removing it from the pan and placing it in a large serving dish and cutting it into 10 pieces.