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BEST BANANA BREAD

INGREDIENTS

For pan

  • 1/2 tablespoon
    butter
  • 1 tablespoon
    evaporated cane sugar

Dry ingredients

  • 325 grams
    all-purpose flour (~ 2 1/2 cups)
  • 100 grams
    granulated sugar (~ 1/2 cup)
  • 1 teaspoon
    baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon
    table salt
  • 160 grams
    chocolate chunks

Wet Ingredients

  • 85 grams
    cultured unsalted butter (6 tablespoons)
  • 350 grams
    very ripe bananas (3-4 large bananas)
  • 1/2 cup
    plain yogurt
  • 2
    large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon
    vanilla extract

STEPS

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 C).
  2. Grease the inside of your loaf pan(with 2 teaspoons of butter or vegetable oil. Be sure to get into the corners. Add a tablespoon of sugar and shake it around to coat the bottom and sides of the pan evenly.
    Buttered and sugared loaf pan for making banana bread.
  3. Sift the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt together into a bowl and whisk the ingredients together.
    Sifting dry ingredients for banana bread together.
  4. Microwave the butter on low power until it’s barely melted. Make sure you don’t boil the butter.
    Melting butter in the microwave to make banana bread.
  5. Add the peeled bananas, yogurt, eggs and vanilla to a blender (or you can use a bowl and stick blendeand blend until smooth. You can also mash the bananas in a bowl and use a whisk to incorporate the other ingredients.
    Blending eggs, yogurt and bananas together for banana bread batter.
  6. With the blender running, pour the melted butter into the other wet ingredients and blend until smooth.
    Blending melted butter into banana bread batter.
  7. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and fold the mixture together until it’s mostly wet.
    Folding banana bread batter together with a spatula.
  8. Add the chocolate and continue folding until there are no large clumps of flour. Be careful not to overmix the batter, or your banana bread will end up tough.
    Mixing chocolate chunks into banana bread batter.
  9. Dump the batter into the prepared loaf pan(and flatten off the top.
    Banana bread batter in a loaf pan.
  10. Bake for 50-60 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out more or less clean.
    A clean skewer is the best way to test banana bread for doneness.
  11. Transfer the banana bread to a wire rack and cool until you can handle it without mits. Remove the bread from the pan and let it cool to room temperature on the rack.
    Loaf of banana bread cooling on a wire rack.

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