Simple Banana Bread Recipe

Oftentimes we all have good intentions of trying to eat more fruit.  If you find yourself with too many leftover bananas that have ripened, make a simple Banana Bread.

This family recipe for a quick banana bread is an easy grab and go out the door to head to school, work, or sit down and enjoy at home.

If you buy bananas to specifically make banana bread, they will ripen faster if you place them in a brown paper bag, such as a brown lunch bag.

If chocolate is your thing, be sure to check out my recipe for Chocolate Banana Bread

Looking for a quick snack the kids can help with?  Check out my Cake Mix Banana Muffins with Chocolate chips! 

There's also a Quick Bread Cream Cheese filled Nibble Bread you can make with Banana Bread mix

Easy clean up with Handmade Cotton Dish Cloths from Moomettes Crochet Shop

Banana Bread Recipe

Ingredients

2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp.  vanilla
1 tsp. cinnamon or nutmeg
1-1/4 c. sugar or substitute honey equivalent in proportion 
1/2 c. vegetable or Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO)

2 eggs
2 tb. milk
3 bananas, mashed with a little milk
Chopped nuts (optional)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees
Add  flour, baking soda and salt and cinnamon to a mixing bowl to set aside
Mix egg, sugar and oil.  Stir until well blended.  Mixture will be a little thick
Add milk, vanilla and bananas and sir, mixing well
Add nuts to batter if desired
Sprinkle with a sugar/cinnamon mixture on top if desired.
Bake 50-70 minutes, checking until  a toothpick comes out clean.
Cool on wire rack 

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Double Chocolate Chip Banana Bread | Banana Chocolate Bread Recipe

This easy recipe for Double Chocolate Chip Banana Bread does double-duty for breakfast, brunch or dessert.

BANANA BREAD

Homemade bread is always a treat. My daughters are always asking me to make banana bread. Both think this is the best banana bread because it's double chocolate, made with cocoa chocolate and chocolate chips. My charming son-in-law likes plain banana bread. Sweet bread is really pure comfort food and goes well with a glass of milk or your morning coffee.

I like to double the recipe and freeze several. Mini loaf pans are the perfect size if you're bringing a hostess gift.

We prefer the mini semi sweet chocolate morsels in this dessert bread.  The addition of cocoa powder gives this chocolate banana bread a nice, rich chocolate flavor.  You can add nuts if your family likes them.

If chocolate's not your thing, I have a terrific recipe for a quick, plain, simple banana bread.

This banana bread can be sliced and then freeze and seal using my Food Saver Vacuum Sealing machine for quick breakfast or impromptu snack.  They're easy to defrost in the microwave in a pinch.

Another family breakfast bread favorite is this easy Simple Banana Bread or Monkey Bread made with Maple Syrup! 

If Cream Cheese is your thing I also have Cream Cheese Nibble Bread and Sourdough Cinnamon Buns

Easy clean-up with my crochet handmade Dish Cloths from my Moomettes Crochet shop!

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe

1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 1/4 cups ripe, mashed bananas (about 2-3)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups King Arthur flour
1/2 cup Hershey's cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup Nestle mini morsel semi sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup crushed walnuts (optional)

Heat oven to 350.
Spray bottom of 8x4 inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
Beat sugar, eggs, and oil in large bowl at medium speed until combined.
Beat in banana and vanilla at low speed.
Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl; beat into banana mixture at low speed just until combined. Stir in chocolate chips.
Spoon batter into pan.
Bake 60-70 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool 10 minutes.
Remove from pan; cool completely on wire rack.

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