Buttermilk Banana Bread. This easy Buttermilk Banana Bread Recipe always gets rave reviews! Some say it is the BEST banana bread recipe out there. If you have brown bananas and buttermilk to use up.
This is the best banana bread I've ever tasted.
I got the recipe from the Vanderbilt Medical Student Mates.
Moist and tender sweet bread full of ripe bananas and covered in chopped walnuts.
You can have Buttermilk Banana Bread using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Buttermilk Banana Bread
- Prepare 1/2 cup of unsalted butter, softened to room temperature.
- It's 1 cup of sugar (I used half granulated, half brown).
- It's 2 of large eggs, at room temperature.
- You need 1 cup of mashed banana (about 3 medium or 2 large).
- It's 1/4 cup of buttermilk, at room temperature.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp. of vanilla extract.
- It's 1 3/4 cup of all purpose flour.
- It's 1 tsp. of baking powder.
- Prepare 1/4 tsp. of salt.
- Prepare 1/8 tsp. of baking soda.
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Buttermilk Banana Bread step by step
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 9x5" loaf pan and set it aside..
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda. Set it aside..
- In a large bowl, using a hand mixer, beat the butter until it is creamy, about 1 minute. Then beat in the sugar until it's nice and fluffy..
- Add the eggs, mashed banana, buttermilk and vanilla extract. Beat until combined..
- Next, add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix until just combined..
- Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Bake for 50-55 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean from the center..
- Place the pan on a cooling rack. After about 15 minutes, gently run a knife around the edges to loosen the bread. Carefully remove it from the pan..
- Let it cool out of the pan on the wire rack. Once it's cool, slice and serve. Store any leftovers in an airtight container..
- For buttermilk banana muffins, fill greased muffin tins about 2/3 of the way full and bake @ 350°F for 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the muffins comes out clean..
Truly the best, with an extraordinary moist texture. It completely changed the way I look at that simple staple of any home cook's baking repertoire—namely now it's something I would go out of my way to make as opposed to a way. Forget all the banana bread recipes you have tried before, the only one you need is this one. Truly the best, with an extraordinary moist texture. For me, the perfect banana bread is very moist, with a dense, tender crumb that actually tastes like Together with the lemon juice mashed with the bananas, the buttermilk not only helps the bread rise.