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Best Banana Bread and Muffins

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This is the Best Banana Bread EVER!!! It’s moist, delicious, and SO easy to make! With only a handful of ingredients needed, this whips up in no time!This is the Best Banana Bread EVER!!! It's moist, delicious, and SO easy to make! With only a handful of ingredients needed, this whips up in no time!

Making the Best Banana Bread EVER is a cinch when you have this easy recipe! It’s only 6 ingredients and can be whipped up in minutes. Feel free to add whatever you like to the bread as well…nuts, blueberries, chocolate chips..they are all great additions.

This is the Best Banana Bread EVER!!! It's moist, delicious, and SO easy to make! With only a handful of ingredients needed, this whips up in no time!

When I was in college there came a day when I felt like I needed to start baking things.  I was a nanny for 2 boys who were in elementary school, and they loved eating sweets and baked goods.  My go-to was a  zucchini bread.  Delicious? Yes.  Healthy?  Um, this could be debated, but I always had an excuse to make it because the vegetable garden yielded tons of zucchini’s every spring…..HUGE zucchinis.  I’d make bread for my family, friends, families from the boy’s school…the zucchini was never ending.  Eventually I decided to attempt some other breads…how hard could it be?  I tried cranberry lemon bread, chocolate walnut bread, pumpkin bread (with chocolate chips, YUM!), and then finally the simplest of all, banana bread.  I tried several recipes until I finally found The Best Banana Bread recipe from Simply Recipes.  Moist, banana-y, sometimes with nuts or sometimes without…it was perfect.  Hundred’s of loafs and muffins later, I am still using the same recipe.  It is so easy and simple, yet so perfect.  It can be made in a loaf, a cake, or banana bread muffins…the options are endless.

This is the Best Banana Bread EVER!!! It's moist, delicious, and SO easy to make! With only a handful of ingredients needed, this whips up in no time!

Don’t have ripe bananas? No problem! Try this awesome technique on how to ripen bananas quickly for the Best Banana Bread EVER!


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The Best Banana Bread or Muffins
Ingredients
  • 3 or 4 ripe bananas mashed
  • 1/3 cup butter melted
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 egg beaten
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1/2 cup nuts chopped (optional)
Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Mix butter and bananas in a large mixing bowl until combined. Add sugar, egg, vanilla; mix well. Add baking soda and salt and mix. Add the flour last, and mix until just combined. You don't want to over mix. Add nuts if desired.

  2. Pour mixture into a buttered 4x8 inch loaf pan or muffin tin. Bake for 50-55 minutes for the loaf, or 22-25 minutes for the muffins. Test with toothpick for doneness.

  3. Cool on a rack. Remove from pan and slice to serve. Top with butter or cream cheese and enjoy!

Recipe Notes

For a bit of a healthier take, divide flour and use 3/4 cup white flour and 3/4 cup whole wheat flour. Still comes out delicious!

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Recipe adapted from Simply Recipes.

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This is the Best Banana Bread EVER!!! It's moist, delicious, and SO easy to make! With only a handful of ingredients needed, this whips up in no time!

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  3. Lauren David says

    I have a lot of old bananas in the freezer and have been meaning to make some banana bread. I always just google the recipe. This time I’m trying yours!

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  7. Amanda says

    Yum! Thanks! Made both muffins and loaf tonight. We used 3/4 cup of sugar and added both 1/2-1/3 cup of nuts and 1/2 cup+ of chocolate chips. With a little less sugar, they are perfectly sweet. Thanks! This is a good simple recipe.

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  8. Tari Bramlett says

    Thank you for this….I am from snow covered Michigan, but for two weeks i am in heaven!! Out in LA spending some cherished time with my oldest daughter and her hubby and 10 month beautiful grandson. We had a little pile of bananas and I popped onto my Pinterest and searched ‘banana bread’ and yours came up top & center. i hit print and could not believe how simple you made it….I had all of my things lined up and put the mixer away…hahaha So simple and their home is smelling WONDERFUL…..24 min to go! Yummm Thank you again!!

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  9. sam says

    i made this recipe with a couple modifications and it was DELICIOUS! Thanks for a great base for me to experiment with! 🙂

    instead of 1 1/2 cups of AP flour, i used 3/4 cup AP flour, 1/4 cup oat flour, and 2/3 cup whole wheat flour. i also added about 1/2 cup of orange juice (my secret ingredient for banana bread!) and 1 tsp cinnamon. i meant to add flax seeds (i like the texture they add) but forgot them!

    anyway, the bread came out super moist and delicious, maybe a bit more dense because of the oat flour, but i like the added fiber.

    thanks for the inspiration!

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    • Allyson says

      Wow! Those sound like great modifications Sam! Nothing like making it a lot healthier! I am happy to hear it came out so well, too. I am going to have to try that!

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  10. Frannie Leonard says

    This has become my go to recipe for Banana Bread- so simple- and delicious! I do modify the sugar and add chocolate chips instead of nuts.

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    • Allyson says

      So happy you love it! We often leave out the nuts too (just because I don’t always have them on hand), and we add chocolate chips too! I actually posted this recipe with chocolate chips as well! So tasty! Thanks for stopping by!

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  11. Elizabeth Towns says

    Can I make this with my adjustments and still get the great flavor? I don’t use white sugar – I use agave mostly; and my son is a gluten free eater — so we’ll be using a gluten free flour. I sometimes use Bob’s Red Mill products, or I can just make oatmeal flour at home.

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    • Allyson says

      Elizabeth- I am not sure. The only subs I have made have been with whole wheat flour and less sugar. You can definitely try it out, I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. The flavor might not be exactly the same, but I am sure it would still be delicious. If you do try it, please let me know how it turns out. Also, thanks for sharing my Milky Way Caramel Cheesecake Brownies on Facebook 🙂

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  13. Jorie says

    Found your recipe via Pinterest. Trying this tomorrow. So excited! Slightly off topic but I see you, too, are a nanny. Do you have any go-to recipes for picky eaters? I am a mom of a 2-year old and nanny of two tweens and am always struggling. Thanks in advance!

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  14. bethfank says

    BEST BANANA BREAD EVER!!! I make it almost every week or so and I usually triple it and share with neighbors and friends. Everyone loves it.

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  15. Heather K says

    So I just made these today and they are SOOOOO good. I did muffins, and the tops are just lovely – all caramelized and delicious, and the rest of the muffin is super moist. I used a gf baking mix – just a generic one you find at most grocery stores, and had no issues following the recipe exactly. No need for alterations or expensive gf flours.

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  16. Stephanie says

    Thank you for this recipe. It is seriously the easiest and most delicious banana bread I have ever made. It is my go to recipe. I can’t wait for it to come out of the oven, 40 Minutes and counting!

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  17. Erin says

    I have some ripe bananas in the freezer, I’m going to make this tomorrow I think. I love banana bread.

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  18. Amy says

    This banana bread is the best! We use this recipe to make mini muffins to freeze for our daughter’s breakfast. Thank you so much for sharing! 🙂

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  19. Katie S says

    Just made these in a mini muffin tin. SO DELICIOUS! I’m never using another banana bread recipe again. Thanks for the post. I found it on Pinterest. I’m definitely going to follow your blog now.

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  21. Emily says

    This has been my go-to banana bread for over a year now. I use whole wheat flour, add chopped dark chocolate and cook it in a greased and floured pan, most often a bundt cake pan or recently muffin tin. I’ve tried variations like adding coconut, using olive oil instead of butter, and I am going to try a vegan versions for my vegan friends. It’s serious the best recipe. Love it.

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  23. Jen says

    This is one of our favorites! My boys actually get excited when our bananas start to turn because that means BANANA BREAD TIME!!

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