Classic Banana Bread

Ingredients (16)

• 300 g overripe bananas (about 3 bananas, 1 ½ cups))300 g
• 90 g unsalted butter (softened, or melted and cooled 6 tbsp)90 g
• 150 g dark brown sugar (¾ cup)150 g
• ½ tsp salt≈ 3 g
• 60 g sour cream (¼ cup)60 g
• 2 large eggs (room temperature)≈ 100 g
• 2 tsp vanilla extract≈ 8 g
• 250 g AP flour (2 cups, measured by spoon and level method)250 g
• 1 tsp baking soda≈ 6 g
• ½ tsp baking powder≈ 2.3 g
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon≈ 2.6 g
• ½ tsp nutmeg≈ 1.3 g
• 115 g walnuts (roughly chopped, about 1 cup)115 g

Toppings and extras

Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.

• Extra chopped nutsn/a
• Granulated sugar or raw sugarn/a
• 1 banana ( sliced into ½ inch slices or sliced lengthwise)≈ 118 g

flour 250 gbatter 1089 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.

• Banana120% · 25th percentile · median 148%
• Sugar60% · 31st percentile · median 78%
• Fat36% · 33rd percentile · median 45%
• Egg40% · 42nd percentile · median 40%
• Dairy24% · 56th percentile · median 15%
• Leavening3.3% · 49th percentile · median 3.5%
• Salt1.2% · 62nd percentile · median 1%

Oven

Temperature

350°F / 175°C

median 350°F

Time

60 to 70 minutes

median 55 minutes