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Best Banana Bread Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Bestcooker / All my dishes 1 year, 4 months ago I had never liked banana bread, finding most extremely dry in texture and bland in taste, until a friend shared her recipe. It must be the sour cream that makes this particular banana bread so rich and moist, and the topping adds a nice touch of cin... More Prep:15m Cook:60m Servings:16	Bestcooker
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Ingredients

2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1-1/2 cups granulated sugar

1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)

3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) butter, melted and cooled

3 large eggs

6 Tablespoons sour cream, heaping

4 overripe bananas

2 tsps. vanilla

Topping:

3 Tablespoons granulated sugar

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Hot water

Topping Variation:

1/2 C. flour

1/2 C. packed brown sugar

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

1/4 C. butter, softened

Directions

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease and flour two 8X4 OR three 7X3 loaf pans. Line bottoms with parchment paper; set aside.

In large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and chopped nuts, if using; set aside.

In medium bowl, mix together butter, eggs, sour cream, bananas, and vanilla with a wooden spoon. Using a rubber spatula, lightly fold banana mixture into flour mixture until just combined and batter looks thick and chunky. Pour batter into prepared pans.

In small bowl, mix together 3 Tablespoons sugar and cinnamon for topping. Add JUST ENOUGH hot water to make of “drizzly” consistency. Drizzle over tops of batter. If making topping variation, mix all of the ingredients together with a fork until crumbly and sprinkle over tops of batter.

Bake 1 hr. (about 45-50 mins. for smaller loaves) or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from pans and carefully remove parchment paper from bottoms of the loaves. Place loaves on wire rack and cool completely.

Note: Bread freezes well made with either topping. Recipe can also be made with frozen mashed bananas. Thaw overnight in refrigerator. Bring to room temperature and bake as directed above. The original recipe from my friend called for orange juice instead of hot water in the cinnamon/sugar topping, but I found it made the corners of the loaves stick in the pans when trying to remove them. You can try it with orange juice and see which you like better.

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elle55 1 year, 4 months ago said:
Sounds yummy, bestcooker! Thank you.

sanzoe 1 year ago said:
I just made this and it so wonderful!!!! I love the cinnamon drizzle topping. I had a pile up of frozen bananas and was looking for something to do with them than make my same old recipe. Thanks Bestcooker your recipes have yet to let me down!

slj6lori 11 months ago said:
My daughter said this was the BEST banana bread ever!!! 10 forks!! Thank you so much for sharing this one Bestcooker....I used the cinnamon drizzle and they came out beautiful....I am trying to post a picture for you. I am bringing my second loaf to a friends house tonight for her family for breakfast tomorrow....thanks again! Scrumptious! :)

babskitchen 8 months, 1 week ago said:
This is sooo good. Very moist the nice little crunchy sugar topping makes it different than most banana bread recipes. We loved it!

jmatthews00 8 months ago said:
Lets try this again... This was great BC I made tonight. I do not usually like banana bread at all but had a few ripe bananas that I needed to use up. Thanks for another wonderful recipe!

dutchie326 3 months, 1 week ago said:
Great. 5 forks.

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jmatthews00 8 months ago said:
This was great BC I made tonight. I do not usually like banana bread at all but had a few ripe bananas that I needed to use up. Thanks for another wonderful recipe!

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