Tombstone banana bread
Juliet Sear · bbcgoodfood.com · 2025 · Cuts into 12 slices
Against 708 banana bread recipes
Less banana than 91% of recipes and more fat than 94%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 708 banana bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less banana than 91% of recipes: 91% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 148%.
- More fat than 94% of recipes: 73% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 45%.
- More egg than 90% of recipes: 64% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- More leavening than 93% of recipes: 6.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.5%, about twice as much.
Ingredients (16)
- 200g unsalted butter softened, plus extra for the tin200 g
- 160g light brown soft sugar160 g
- 1 tsp vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 4 medium eggs≈ 176 g
- 1 tsp baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon≈ 5 g
- 1 tsp ground ginger≈ 2.6 g
- 275g self-raising flour275 g
- 3-4 large overripe bananas peeled and mashed (about 225-250g prepared weight)250 g
- 125g dark chocolate125 g
- 6 plain rectangular biscuits broken in half (we used malted milk)n/a
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 100g butter softened100 g
- 175g icing sugar175 g
- 2 tbsp milk≈ 31 g
- 1 tsp cocoa powder≈ 1.8 g
- jelly worms or Halloween sweets and sprinkles, to decoraten/a
flour 275 gbatter 1203 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 708 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median. Leavening includes the baking powder in the self-rising flour, counted as 5% of its weight.
- Banana91% · 8th percentile · median 148%
- Sugar58% · 25th percentile · median 78%
- Fat73% · 94th percentile · median 45%
- Egg64% · 92nd percentile · median 40%
- Dairy0% · 23rd percentile · median 15%
- Leavening6.7% · 94th percentile · median 3.5%
- Salt0% · 10th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 45 minutes
- median 55 minutes
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