Banana bread with walnuts or Banana and walnut bread is a simple yet delicious treat that pairs perfectly with your evening tea or coffee. It's so good that you can even enjoy it on its own, straight from the loaf! Whip up a delicious loaf of banana bread with just a few simple ingredients: overripe bananas, an egg, flour, and brown sugar. For an extra touch, throw in some walnuts for crunch!
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Why you'll love this recipe?
- This is a no-fail, foolproof recipe that promises perfect results every time. Whether you're a first-time baker or a seasoned pro, grab your mittens and get ready to bake a delicious banana-filled masterpiece! First-time bakers can be assured of great outcomes like the Vanilla sponge cake or blueberry muffins crumb topping.
- This banana bread is moist, tastes delicious, and has the perfect sweetness from the brown sugar. Brown sugar gives great results with baking, whether it is the easy delicious chocolate cake or the doubletree cookie copycat recipe.
- Gets done very quickly, just like the fresh cranberry muffins made from the cranberry muffins recipe or simple banana nut muffins, as you mix everything all at once in a big bowl and then bake it. The baking time is about an hour.
- Slice into big slices and store in an air-tight container for about 3 to 4 days and about a week or more in the refrigerator.
Ingredients needed
- Dry Ingredients - All-purpose flour, baking soda, and salt
- Sweet Bananas and overripe ones preferred
- Brown sugar - I used light brown sugar. Adjust sweetness to your liking
- Butter (organic, unsalted), melted and cooled
- Wet ingredients - Egg, Low-fat milk, Vanilla extract
- Reduced Fat Milk to mix in with the flour
- Walnuts - halved and toasted(optional).
How to make Banana Bread with walnuts?
Start by whisking the flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl and keep aside. Mash bananas, butter, brown sugar, vanilla, and egg in another bowl. Add half of the flour mixture into the bowl, along with half the milk.
Add the remaining flour, milk, and walnuts and stir until it forms a smooth paste. Pour the batter into the greased pan lined with parchment paper. Bake for about 50 minutes until the toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
You can also alternatively check every 5 minutes after 50 minutes to make sure it cooks well as it took 65 – 70 minutes at another time depending on many factors oven temperature, and liquid contents.
- Step 1: Whisk the dry ingredients AP flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
- Step 2: Take overripe bananas, brown sugar, egg, vanilla essence, and melted butter in a bowl.
- Step 3: Mash the bananas, egg, sugar, melted butter, and vanilla essence in the previous step to a fine paste. using a fork.
- Step 4: Add flour in two to three additions with milk and gently mix; do not over mix.
- Step 5: Add the chopped walnuts
- Step 6: Transfer to a baking tray and bake in a pre-heated oven at 350 deg F for 50 to 60 minutes.
- Step 7: Cool the banana bread on a cooling rack.
- Step 8: Cut into big slices and serve.
Tips to Make Banana and Walnut Bread
This bread has a great texture and is very moist. Make sure the butter, egg, and milk are at room temperature. You can increase the quantity of sugar if you like it sweeter. Do not overmix while adding the dry ingredients to the wet.
You can also use your hands to combine them well if you wish. Top some walnuts on the top for decoration. Walnuts add a nice crunch whether it is the chocolate chip and raisin oatmeal cookies, brownie with walnuts, best bakery style chocolate chip cookies, or best chocolate chip walnut cookies.
So, if you have some overripe bananas sitting on your counter, you may want to try baking this yummy bread. It is just about mixing all the ingredients and putting them in the oven. If you like the flavor of chocolate in your banana bread, do check out the recipe for the delicious Chocolate banana bread as well.
Recipe FAQs
This usually happens when there is a lot of moisture from the ingredients, too many bananas, milk or egg, and is most likely undercooked. You can fix this by baking for some more time until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
The bread should sit for about 15 minutes; the longer, the better. It should also be cooled on a cooling rack before being cut into slices. Use a bread knife to cut it with clean edges.
Using too many bananas or unripe ones, having incorrect measurements of flour, overmixing the batter, and not using fresh baking soda.
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Banana bread with walnuts
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cup all purpose flour
- 2 -3 bananas overripe preferred
- 1 cup brown sugar ½ cup more if you like it sweeter
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¼ cup butter melted and cooled
- 1 large egg
- ¾ cup low fat milk
- 1 cup walnuts halved
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350 deg F
- Grease the baking pan with butter
- Whisk the flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl and keep aside
- Sprinkle a little flour on the halved walnuts (optional)
- Mash bananas, butter, brown sugar, vanilla and egg in another bowl
- Add half of the flour mixture into the bowl along with half the milk
- Add the remaining flour ,milk , walnuts and stir until it forms a smooth paste
- Pour the batter into the greased pan
- Bake for about 50 minutes until the tooth pick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- You can also alternatively check every 5 minutes after 50 minutes to make sure it cooks well as it took 65 – 70 minutes at another time all depends on the oven!
- Let the bread sit in the pan for about 5 minutes
- Gently move it to cooling rack until it is completely cooled
- Cut into thick slices , banana bread is now ready ! Enjoy
Notes
- This bread has a great texture and is very moist. Make sure the butter, egg, and milk are at room temperature.
- Adding flour to the halved walnuts is optional as the batter is quite heavy the walnuts will not sink to the bottom.
- You can increase the quantity of sugar if you like it sweeter.
- Do not overmix while adding the dry ingredients to the wet.
- You can also use your hands to combine them well if you wish.
- Top some walnuts on the top for decoration.
Thank you for sharing this recipe This turned out amazing!
This banana bread with walnuts is so yummy and delicious I have tried it going to make it again.
This worked exactly as written, thanks!