American · baked goods

Brown Sugar Banana Bread

Name: Brown Sugar Banana Bread
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 2 h 5 min
Total time: 2 h 20 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 300 g Overripe Bananas (mashed); 200 g All-Purpose Flour; 80 g Unsalted Butter (melted); 130 g Brown Sugar (packed); 2 large Eggs (room temperature); 1 tsp Baking Soda; 0.5 tsp Salt; 0.5 tsp Cinnamon (ground); 1 tsp Vanilla Extract

Overripe bananas, melted butter and brown sugar baked into a cinnamon loaf. The darker the banana skins, the sweeter and moister the bread.

Baking soda is the only leavener here, and it needs the acid in the bananas and brown sugar to lift the loaf, so do not swap in baking powder. Stop folding as soon as the flour disappears; the batter should still look lumpy, and overmixing gives a tough crumb with tunnels. If the top browns before the center is set, tent the pan loosely with foil for the last 15 minutes of baking. Bananas that have gone black can be frozen whole in their skins and thawed before mashing.

VegetarianNut-Free

2 hr 20 minstart to table

15 min prep · 55 min cook · 1 hr 10 min hands-offServes10× slice221 kcal a serving

Cook · 2 hr 20 min

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Storage

Fridge: Up to 4 days
Freezer: Up to 2 months
Room temperature: Up to 2 days

Wrap the fully cooled loaf tightly in plastic wrap or keep it in an airtight container at room temperature. To freeze, wrap slices individually; thaw at room temperature or warm a slice in a toaster.

Per serving

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221

Calories

4 g

Protein

34 g

Carbs

8 g

Fat

1 g

Fiber

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