Best Banana Bread Recipe
Gemma Stafford · biggerbolderbaking.com · 2022 · 8 people
Against 708 banana bread recipes
More salt than 97% of recipes and less banana than 83%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 708 banana bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 97% of recipes: 2.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%, about 3 times as much.
- Less banana than 83% of recipes: 106% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 148%.
- Less fat than 83% of recipes: 26% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 45%.
- More leavening than 78% of recipes: 5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.5%.
Ingredients (12)
- 1½ cups (7 ½ oz/ 213 g) all-purpose flour213 g
- ¾ cup (2¼ oz/64 g) quick cooking oats64 g
- ⅔ cup (5 oz/142 g) granulated sugar142 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda≈ 1.5 g
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon≈ 5 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 1 cup (8 oz/225 g) mashed banana ((3 small bananas))225 g
- 2 large eggs, room temperature≈ 100 g
- ⅓ cup (2 ½ fl oz/71 ml) whole milk≈ 81 g
- ¼ cup (2 fl oz/57 ml) vegetable oil≈ 55 g
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 6 g
flour 213 gbatter 908 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.
- Banana106% · 16th percentile · median 148%
- Sugar67% · 41st percentile · median 78%
- Fat26% · 17th percentile · median 45%
- Egg47% · 68th percentile · median 40%
- Dairy38% · 72nd percentile · median 15%
- Leavening5% · 80th percentile · median 3.5%
- Salt2.8% · 98th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 55 minutes
- median 55 minutes
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