Having banana bread is good idea, and there is good banana nut bread recipe to try. It will give good combination of taste between banana and nut. The bread is so soft and you will surely like it. Even, your family will love to have the bread for breakfast and snacks. In case you are interested to have the bread, it is easy to make. There is complete recipe and ingredients. What you need to do is to follow the instruction, and you will get your handmade banana bread.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup banana, peeled and mashed
- 1 large egg
- 2/3 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
- 1/3 cup butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Cooking Instructions:
- Prepare your oven and set the heat to the 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Prepare the loaf pan and grease it. Set it aside
- Get a large bowl. Add the mashed banana and butter. Whisk and mix them until they are perfectly blended.
- Add the sugar and whisk them together.
- Get the egg and vanilla. Add these two ingredients to the mixture. Whisk them together.
- Add the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt to the bowl and stir them together.
- Add also the nuts and keep mixing the mixture.
- After you get the batter, it is time to pour it to the pan.
- Once the batter is fully poured, use the remaining nuts to sprinkle the batter.
- Bake it for around 60 minutes.
- Take the pan and let the bread cooling down.
- Remove the bread from pan and you can slice it once the bread cool perfectly.
- Slice and serve it.
As what you see in the recipe, you have no difficulties in making banana nut bread. It is easy to make. The challenge will be in the process of whisking and stirring the ingredients. It needs your consistency in order to get the good quality of batter. Once you get the fully-mixed batter, it will give good texture of bread.
In baking process, the duration may not be 60 minutes. Even, it can finish in less than the predicted duration. In this case, the easy indicator is by using the toothpick. You can try to use toothpick after baking the batter for 40 minutes. When it comes out without any batter, it means the banana nut bread is ready to remove from the oven.
If you want to store it, it is easy to do. You only need to keep it in the room temperature. In case you want to refrigerate it, it is also fine to do. Even, it is recommended to refrigerate the bread before slicing it. This process will give stronger taste of banana and nuts. You do not need to worry about the texture since all of the ingredients and measurement are made in order to get the best flavor and texture of banana nut bread.