Banana bread

Ingredients

  • 250g all purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter (softened)
  • 150g brown sugar

  • 2 large eggs (room temperature)

  • 80g sour cream or greek yogurt
  • 345g bananas (usually 3 bananas)
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

  • 90g mix-ins (chopped nuts and/or dark chocolate chips)

Directions

  1. Combine flour, baking soda, salt, and ground cinnamon in a bowl
  2. Cream together butter and brown sugar in a separte bowl
  3. Beat in 2 large eggs, one at a time
  4. Mash bananas in a third bowl, mix in sour cream and vanilla
  5. Thoroughly combine banana mixture with butter, sugar, egg mixuture
  6. Fold in flour mixture until just combined
  7. Add mix-ins until just combined, do not overmix
  8. Spray loaf pan with non-stick cooking spray and dump batter in
  9. Bake at 350ºF for 60-65 minutes on oven rack in the lower 3rd position

Notes

  • I make this almost every Sunday
  • I use light and dark brown sugar interchangeably in this recipe, can’t really feel the difference
  • Life hack: soften butter in the microwave, warm up eggs by putting in warm/hot water