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Banana Nut Bread

An easy banana nut bread recipe made with sour cream, cinnamon, and walnuts!
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time1 hour 5 minutes
Total Time1 hour 20 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 12 slices (1 9x5 loaf)
Calories: 377kcal

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 cups (300 g) all purpose flour *spooned and leveled
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 1/4 cups (250 g) granulated white sugar
  • 1/2 cup (120 mL) vegetable oil
  • 2 large eggs room temperature
  • 1 ½ cups (340 g) very ripe bananas (about 4 medium)
  • ½ cup (113 g) sour cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup (128 g) walnuts toasted, chopped

Instructions

  • Preheat and prepare pan. Preheat oven to 350oF (177°C). Spray a 9x5” loaf pan with non-stick cooking spray or grease with butter and set aside.
  • Mash bananas. In a small mixing bowl, mash bananas with a fork. Set aside.
  • Combine dry ingredients. In a mixing bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
  • Combine wet ingredients. In the same mixing bowl with the bananas, whisk in the sugar, oil, eggs, vanilla extract and sour cream. Whisk to combine.
  • Combine wet and dry ingredients. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix together with a spatula until just combined. Fold in walnuts.
  • Bake. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and bake for 60-65 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean. Remove from the oven and allow the bread to cool completely in the pan set on a wire cooling rack. Store the bread, and any leftovers, covered at room temperature for 2 days, or in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.

Notes

  • Storage: Keep wrapped at room temperature and store for up to 2 days, or in the fridge for up to 1 week.
  • Freezing: Banana bread will freeze great for up to 3 months. Just wrap it well. Then when ready to enjoy, thaw at room temperature and enjoy.
  • Sour Cream - This adds fat and richness. You could try swapping out for greek yogurt, which I did in my healthy banana bread recipe.
  • Oil - I used vegetable oil, but canola oil or other neutral-tasting oil also would work. You could try substituting with melted butter or coconut oil as well, but it might change the moistness and texture slightly.
  • Use Ripe Bananas. You want to make sure you use very ripe bananas. Bananas that have lots of black specks. The blacker the banana is the sweeter it will be. I actually like to freeze my bananas when they have gotten too ripe to use later for banana bread. If you use frozen bananas, then let the bananas thaw before using them.
  • Mash first. Mash your bananas before adding them to the mixing bowl. I do this by hand with a fork since I have used frozen bananas they are very easily mashed. You could also use a pastry blender, potato masher, or a hand mixer.
  • Measure your flour accurately. I use the spoon and level method. You can learn how to measure your flour in this post.
  • Careful to not over mix. I like to use a spatula and fold in the dry ingredients by hand. You want to stop mixing once they have been incorporated. Too much mixing = too much gluten forming. Gluten is what will give a bread its chew, but for a banana bread you want less gluten to form. So we can accomplish that by making sure we don’t overmix!
  • Use The Right Pan. I used a 9x5 loaf pan. Be sure it's the right size. And make sure you aren't using a dark loaf pan, which can bake too quickly and burn. If you are baking in a glass loaf pan, then your baking time might be longer (about 5 minutes depending on the oven).

Nutrition

Calories: 377kcal | Carbohydrates: 49g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 8g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Trans Fat: 0.04g | Cholesterol: 33mg | Sodium: 300mg | Potassium: 195mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 25g | Vitamin A: 119IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 29mg | Iron: 2mg