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Bread, Banana

Banana bread is a type of bread made from mashed bananas. It is often a moist, sweet, cake-like quick bread; however there are some banana bread recipes that are traditional-style raised breads
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Resting time 30 minutes
Total Time 2 hours
Servings: 8
Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: Canadian
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1½ cups Unbleached all-purpose flour (375 ml)
  • 1 tsp Baking powder (5 ml)
  • 1 tsp Baking soda (5 ml)
  • 1¼ cups Mashed ripe bananas (310 ml, 3-4 bananas)
  • ½ cup Coconut milk (125 ml)
  • 1 tbsp Lime juice (15 ml)
  • ½ cup Unsalted butter (125 ml), softened
  • 1 cup Sugar (250 ml)
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract (5 ml)

Equipment

  • 1 Loaf pan or capacity pan 23 x 13-cm (9 x 5-inch) loaf pan (a 1.5-litre (6-cup) capacity pan)

Method
 

  1. With the rack in the middle position, preheat the oven to 180 °C (350 °F). Butter a 23 x 13-cm (9 x 5-inch) loaf pan (a 1.5-litre (6-cup) capacity pan) and line with a strip of parchment paper, letting it hang over both sides.
  2. In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder and baking soda. Set aside.
  3. In another bowl, combine bananas, coconut milk and lime juice. Set aside.
  4. In a third bowl, cream butter and sugar with an electric mixer. Add egg and vanilla and beat until smooth. At low speed, add dry ingredients alternately with banana mixture
  5. Pour into the loaf pan. Bake for about 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.
  6. Let cool on a wire rack before removing from the pan and slicing.

Notes