My Best Browned Butter Banana Bread Recipe
Joy the Baker · joythebaker.com · 2025 · 1 9x5-inch loaf pan that serves 8
Against 708 banana bread recipes
More fat than 91% of recipes and less banana than 80%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 708 banana bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More fat than 91% of recipes: 68% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 45%.
- Less banana than 80% of recipes: 113% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 148%.
- Less leavening than 76% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.5%.
Ingredients (12)
- 6 ounces (170 grams) unsalted butter, melted and browned to just over ½ cup170 g
- 2 cups (250 grams) all-purpose flour250 g
- ¾ cup (150 grams) lightly packed light brown sugar150 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt≈ 2 g
- ¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon≈ 2 g
- ½ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg≈ 1.3 g
- 2 large eggs≈ 100 g
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- ¼ cup (65 grams) sour cream65 g
- 1¼ cups (about 3 medium) very ripe bananas, mashed≈ 281 g
- 1 heaping cup milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips≈ 170 g
flour 250 gbatter 1202 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.
- Banana113% · 19th percentile · median 148%
- Sugar60% · 31st percentile · median 78%
- Fat68% · 91st percentile · median 45%
- Egg40% · 42nd percentile · median 40%
- Dairy26% · 60th percentile · median 15%
- Leavening2.4% · 19th percentile · median 3.5%
- Salt0.8% · 44th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 50 to 60 minutes
- median 55 minutes
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