This easy banana bread recipe contains ingredients that you will more than likely have in your cupboard already – perfect for those times when you’re expecting visitors to pop in but have got nothing in the house except from overripe bananas. What’s more, a piece of moist and delicious banana bread is irresistible to most!

Banana Bread
Description
A classic banana bread recipe that you will make over and over again!
Ingredients
- 125g butter or margarine
- 1 cup castor sugar (white or brown sugar is okay though)
- 2 cups flour
- 2 eggs
- 3 large bananas, mashed
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C
- Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs one at a time and beat well.
- Add bananas and vanilla and fold in dry ingredients.
- Bake in a greased loaf tin for 45 minutes.
- Variation:
- Grate an apple or pear or some carrot as well and put in the mixture.
Notes
Variation:Grate an apple or pear or some carrot as well and put in the mixture.
remember put in baking power put in abit of milk so dont get that bitter taste
Hi i read your. Comment how much milk fid u add in
Hi i read your Comment how much milk did u add in with the baking powder please let me know asap
Winner! i made it so many times, and it is always good, I add a bit more bananas, and get 2 small loafs, 1 for my husband and one for my daughter, they don’t like sharing this 😉
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Hi Louise,
I would just like to tell you that this recipe is a winner everytime. I have been using this recipe for Banana Bread for the last 4 years and everytime I make I get the best compliments. You are a superstar – love all of your recipes 🙂 Keep up the good work and looking forward to continue baking with you.
Cara Rose
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Clearly i must be doing something wrong ;-(
Made this last night and came out humongous! Perhaps the recipe should be more specific and say the size baking tin to be used…or the fact that it can make 2 loaves, as the bread is definitely too thick! Looks like I’ve made a GMO banana loaf! lol
Just love your recipes…all of it! I have also played around with varieties and replaced the 1 cup flour with coconut flour…it’s also really good and nutty…no bitterness ever happened to me when using real butter in recipe.
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This recipe does not cook in 45mins.
Hi Toni
From experience I know ovens may also differ in temperatures and also depends on the size of the oven.
I often time mine either 5-10 minutes earlier or later.
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Thanks. I can see this a being useful.