Best Banana Bread Recipe
Modern Honey® - www.modernhoney.com · modernhoney.com · 2025 · 8
Against 708 banana bread recipes
More sugar than 95% of recipes and more dairy than 95%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 708 banana bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 95% of recipes: 125% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 78%.
- More dairy than 95% of recipes: 82% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 15%, about 5.5 times as much.
- Banana in the middle half of recipes: 124% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 148%.
Ingredients (14)
- 4 Tablespoons Butter ((softened))≈ 57 g
- 1/4 cup Oil ((canola or neutral oil))≈ 55 g
- 1 cup Sugar≈ 200 g
- 1/3 cup Brown Sugar≈ 73 g
- 2 large Eggs≈ 100 g
- 2 large Ripe Bananas ((mashed))≈ 272 g
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract≈ 8 g
- 1/2 cup Buttermilk≈ 122 g
- 1/4 cup Sour Cream≈ 58 g
- 1 3/4 cups Flour≈ 219 g
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda≈ 3 g
- 3/4 teaspoon Baking Powder≈ 3.5 g
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt≈ 3 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 3 Tablespoons Brown Sugar≈ 41 g
flour 219 gbatter 1173 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.
- Banana124% · 28th percentile · median 148%
- Sugar125% · 95th percentile · median 78%
- Fat51% · 70th percentile · median 45%
- Egg46% · 66th percentile · median 40%
- Dairy82% · 96th percentile · median 15%
- Leavening3% · 37th percentile · median 3.5%
- Salt1.4% · 74th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 50 to 60 minutes
- median 55 minutes
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