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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!

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Banana Bread Recipe

Banana Bread

  • Author: Louise
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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

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C
  2. Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs one at a time and beat well.
  3. Add bananas and vanilla and fold in dry ingredients.
  4. Bake in a greased loaf tin for 45 minutes.
  5. Variation:
  6. 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.

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  3. Elena

    I made this yesterday, its a great recipe, the kids and the adults loved it! Thank you for sharing.
    PS. I added chocolate chips….

  5. Genevieve

    This is the best recipe I have ever made. I have made this at work almost everyday and it never fails! I’ve started making it in the muffin pans and it comes out fantastic. Thank you!!

  6. thobeka

    i love banana bread, i found yours easy and Fantastic. my boyfriend and i have the whole loaf for dinner. thank you

  7. Cara

    I make this everytime there is a family event or just a couple of banana’s laying arounds. Its absolutately devine and always get good feed back.

  9. Gabrielle

    I am a very opportunistic and unconventional cook. Looked in my cupboards and didn’t have the baking powder, the bicarb or the butter. I did have half a pineapple, a whole apple and 4 over ripe bananas, which is why I looked up a recipe in the first place. I used rice oil for butter and half self rising and half wholewheat flour and it rose so beautifully and tasted world class, oh and I also found half a cup of almond flakes.

  11. NikNak

    Delicious and so easy to make. Big hit with the whole family. Had never made banana bread before, but this recipe came out perfect, first time – looking exactly like the picture.

    Highly recommended!

  13. Tracy

    I’m going to make this tonight, I will let you know how it turns out! Love this one because the ingredients are simple and I already have them all at home! So, fingers crossed it works out well!

  15. Ella

    I absolutley love banana bread!!!! i made it the other day it was divine!!! thank you so much for the recipe and it is quick and easy and most of all dilishes!

  17. Esther C

    This is the best and easy banana bread I freeze slices for the kids lunch boxes very convenient Tx for a great recipe

  18. Antoinette

    i am not a lover of banana bread as when you buy it in the sphops it very dry. i made this banana bread and all my friend and working friend where so impressed with it as it is moist, that i have to make 1 ever friday for the ladies at work. it is so good. full marks for this recipe

  19. Oreen

    Thanks we had this cake and we enjoy it so easy to make. Over ripe bannanas and nothing went to waste.

  21. Nicole

    it turned out fantastic!Everybody was raving about it.It was the best banana bread that I have ever tasted!Thanks for the excellent recipe!

  26. Charl

    This is so easy to bake and it tastes better than any banana bread I’ve ever tried. Really nice thanks!

  27. Diane

    wow am put to loss at work after finding this website can’t wait to get trying, the reviews are great!! just one question a few off them just state flour, does that mean plain, self raisin, brown etc?? If I just went for plain flour everytime it wouldn’t affect the rising of bread/scones etc?! Sorry if I sound thick I’m a total beginner at this!!

    Thanks 🙂

    • Louise

      the recipe has baking powder in it so you can use plain flour…however if you used self-raising flour that would be fine too! 🙂

  29. Phelela

    I’m good @ baking bt this recipe is easy tt it makes me feel like a pro in baking.My Hubby can’t get enough of it!!
    Thanks a lot!

  32. yvonne

    I made this awesome banana bread today and added a grated apple and some cinnamon and we could not stop eating it. I have been asked to make more soon.

  34. Blue whitney

    Great Saturday morning little project, added raisins and finished it off with almond flakes. Wonderfully simple recipe. Family loved it. Thank you.

    • Louise

      Hi Malin, you can use any sugar – I probably wouldnt use icing /powdered sugar though but Im sure brown sugar, white sugar or treacle sugar would be fine. I’m sure you caould substitute butter for oil although I have never tried it.

  36. angela

    Was given bananas yesterday even tho i dont eat them so looked up a recipe for a banana loaf and chose yrs bcos it seemed straight forward. Used wholemeal flour and soft brown sugar and now just waiting for it to cool down. Looks good, smells good just got to eat it now!

  37. Diane

    This is soooooo easy and sooooooo lovely I’m no baker but my friends think I’m a pro after producing this :-))

  38. Garima Gupta

    Hi,

    I have question on oven, My over is 32 ltrs Delonghi
    When i tried your vanial cak recipe, at 180 degrees, the top burned but inside was still uncooked.

    Then for second one i tried baking at 170, and it was ok but not to perfection.
    Can you pls give me some tips on this on how to improvise,

    • Louise

      Hi Garima, thanks for the question. I’m not an expert on ovens but sometimes the tops of my cakes get brown too quickly too! What I have done in the past is, covered the top with tinfoil or put a baking tray on a level above the one on which the cake is – in this way the cake is not directly exposed to the element and the top stays soft whilst the cake cooks through. Another thing is to perhaps check that your oven is calibrated correctly to degrees celsius.

  39. Popo

    I’m not much of a cook or baker but I stay at home now raising my lil infant and I want to up my cooking and baking skills. I’m about to try this recipe as it looks simple but I don’t have a loaf baking tray. What else can I use to put my mixture in?

  40. Stefania

    Absolutely delicious….added a grated apple and a dash of cinnamon….and it was a hit!! Thanks for the great recipe….definately going to become a regular in my home

  42. Jamila

    Hi Louise. Thank you for a great website with wonderful recipes. I have tried a few and they all turned out perfectly. I have so much bananas left over at school today,thought I could treat the kids tomorrow with banana cupcakes. Do you have a recipe for this, or could I use your banana loaf recipe and just put them into cupcake cups? I need to make enough for 300 kids?

  43. Noni

    I can proudly say I make the best banana bread more than the ones we get at supermakerts. My fiance, my family and colleagues have stopped buying from the shops they prefer mine. . . Thank you sooooooo much!!!

  45. mpho

    HMmm yummy i made this recipe for several times, even my mother in law loved it n asked me to write it down 4 her woow!! thank you Louise, my husband can’t wait to eat it again n my kids always ask me to make again and again, the simplest recipe ever thanks again!

  47. jeannine

    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 😉

    ★★★★★

  48. CARA ROSE

    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

    ★★★★★

  49. Tracey

    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

  50. Denise

    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.

    ★★★★★

    • Zimy

      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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