Whole Wheat Banana Bread

Ingredients (20)

• 300 g overripe bananas (about 3 bananas, or 1 ½ cups)300 g
• 115 g brown butter (use avocado oil or olive oil if you prefer, see recipe notes)115 g
• 1 ½ tbsp dry milk powder (if making brown butter, optional)≈ 7 g
• 130 g dark brown sugar (⅔ cups)130 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
• 225 g whole wheat flour (1 ⅓ cup spooned and leveled, I like to use half whole wheat and half rye flour)225 g
• 1 tsp baking soda≈ 6 g
• 1 tsp baking powder≈ 4.6 g
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon≈ 2.6 g
• ½ tsp allspice≈ 1.3 g
• ½ tsp cardamom≈ 1.3 g
• ½ tsp nutmeg≈ 1.3 g
• 115 g pecans (roughly chopped, about 1 cup)115 g

Toppings and extras

Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.

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

flour 225 gbatter 1080 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.

• Banana133% · 34th percentile · median 148%
• Sugar58% · 25th percentile · median 78%
• Fat51% · 70th percentile · median 45%
• Egg44% · 61st percentile · median 40%
• Dairy30% · 64th percentile · median 15%
• Leavening4.7% · 75th percentile · median 3.5%
• Salt1.3% · 70th percentile · median 1%

Oven

Temperature

350°F / 175°C

median 350°F

Time

60 to 70 minutes

median 55 minutes