Our Best-Ever Banana Bread
Patty Catalano · thekitchn.com · 2024 · 10
Against 708 banana bread recipes
More sugar than 91% of recipes and more fat than 87%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 708 banana bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 91% of recipes: 117% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 78%.
- More fat than 87% of recipes: 61% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 45%.
- More egg than 78% of recipes: 53% 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%.
Ingredients (11)
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature≈ 114 g
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature≈ 100 g
- 1 cup granulated or packed light or dark brown sugar≈ 220 g
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon≈ 2.6 g
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg≈ 1.3 g
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt≈ 2 g
- 3 very ripe large bananas≈ 354 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 188 g
- 3/4 cup chopped, toasted walnuts (optional)≈ 90 g
flour 188 gbatter 1085 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%
- Sugar117% · 92nd percentile · median 78%
- Fat61% · 88th percentile · median 45%
- Egg53% · 81st percentile · median 40%
- Dairy0% · 23rd percentile · median 15%
- Leavening3.2% · 45th percentile · median 3.5%
- Salt1.1% · 54th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 minutes
- median 55 minutes
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