Easy Banana Bread Recipe
spendwithpennies.com · 2026 · 12 servings
Against 708 banana bread recipes
No fat, unlike 92% of recipes and less egg than 84%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 708 banana bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No fat at all, where 92% of recipes use some (most of those 34 to 55% of the flour weight).
- Less egg than 84% of recipes: 27% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- Banana in the middle half of recipes: 189% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 148%.
- More salt than 76% of recipes: 1.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%.
Ingredients (8)
- 3 medium bananas (about 1 cup mashed)≈ 354 g
- ½ cup mayonnaise (or dressing)≈ 119 g
- 1 egg (room temperature)≈ 50 g
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour≈ 188 g
- ¾ cup granulated sugar≈ 150 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- ½ cup chopped pecans (optional)≈ 55 g
flour 188 gbatter 924 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.
- Banana189% · 76th percentile · median 148%
- Sugar80% · 57th percentile · median 78%
- Fat0% · 4th percentile · median 45%
- Egg27% · 14th percentile · median 40%
- Dairy0% · 23rd percentile · median 15%
- Leavening3.2% · 45th percentile · median 3.5%
- Salt1.6% · 81st percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 to 70 minutes
- median 55 minutes
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