Hi Bold Bakers!
In a recent video I made my best ever brownie recipe, now these are the fudgiest, gooey-est
brownies you have ever seen.
In the video I asked what other best ever recipes you'd like to see me make and I got
loads of requests for banana bread.
I was really, really happy because I do have a best ever banana bread recipe to share with
you right now, so let's get baking!
So warm banana bread, straight from the oven is serious comfort food to me.
I have had this recipe for 10+ years and every time I make it people ask me for it so that's
why, of course, I have to share it with you.
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Okay, let’s get stuck into our banana bread.
Into a large bowl, add in flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and ground cinnamon.
Okay, so now here is my secret: the next ingredient we're going to add in is what makes this cake
so unbelievably moist, and that is rolled oats.
The rolled oats soak up all the moisture and they make the bread really, really soft.
If you've ever made meatballs before and you add in breadcrumbs, these do the exact same
thing, they soak up all the liquid and just keep it incredibly nice and moist.
So we're gonna add those in there.
Now I know it's not a common ingredient that you would often see in a banana bread, but
believe me, it works.
And then with a spatula just mix all of your dry ingredients together so they're well combined.
When the oats bake in the banana bread they totally disappear so you're just left with
a lovely soft center.
So good.
Okay that's our dry ingredients, now we're gonna mix together our wet ingredients.
So now you can't have banana bread without bananas.
Now the bananas that I like to use are over-ripe bananas so they're dark in color, they might
not look like the best to eat, but they are perfect for banana bread.
Also if you ever have loads of bananas in the house and you have nothing to do with
them, pop them into the freezer and then when you want to make banana bread or a recipe
like a smoothie or something, at another time, you have bananas ready to go.
So it's a really handy thing to have.
So just pop them into your bowl, they're lovely and soft, and then I'm just gonna take a fork
and I'm gonna mash it really, really well.
Until there's no more lumps.
So working as a pastry chef for over 10 years I have brought this recipe all around the
world with me and probably made it hundreds of times, for breakfast buffets, for afternoon
tea, oh my gosh.
Okay so that's our mashed banana, now we're gonna add in the rest of our wet ingredients.
So into the mashed banana we're going to add in some eggs, milk, vanilla extract, and oil.
So now the oil in this recipe is another important factor to keep it lovely and moist.
So it’s kind of like my secret ingredient.
Now you can use any type of flavorless oil and you can even use coconut oil, just don't
recommend you use olive oil because it has too strong of a flavor.
Okay, that's in there, now we're gonna take our whisk and then whisk it all together.
So now if you don't eat eggs you can still make this banana bread.
On my website I put an alternative for eggs, so make sure you go check that out on the
recipe.
Okay great, looking good, now we're gonna add our dry ingredients into here.
So now all you want to do is take a spatula, and fold these ingredients together.
Now you know my role about over-mixing.
Just mix it until it's combined, all the flour has disappeared and it's mixed well, but don't
over-mix it, because we want a nice, soft banana bread.
If you're the type of person that like blueberries, walnuts, maybe chocolate chips in their banana
bread this is the time to add it.
You can go really crazy with this and add whatever you like.
Okay, perfect, it has just come together, I'm gonna stop mixing, and pour it into my
prepared tin.
So lined a loaf tin with parchment paper, and I'm just gonna go ahead and pour my banana
bread into it.
Look at that.
As you can probably see by now, this is a huge banana bread.
But you can’t have a best ever banana bread and not have it be huge as well.
As you can see, this banana bread fills the tin all the way to the top.
So this guy is ready to go into the oven.
Bake your banana bread off at 350 degrees Fahrenheit, or 180 degrees Celsius, for 55
to 65 minutes.
So let me know in the comments below what other best ever recipes you'd love to see
me make, because I have got thousands to share with you, so just let me know which ones.
One of the best things about cooking banana bread is the smell when it's baked, it's absolutely
delicious.
So as you can see, it's a lovely golden brown on top, it does take quite a long time to
bake because it's a big, thick, heavy cake, but what you want to do is make sure that
it's firm, and a really good way to check if it's done, take a skewer, just a thin skewer,
and stick it down the middle f the cake, and if comes out clean, like this one, that means
it's perfectly baked.
So here's my last secret trick of the trade, not a lot of people do this, but it makes
all the difference to your cakes.
Here I have some aluminum foil, and what I'm going to do is while it's fresh out of the
oven and still warm, cover it in the foil.
Now you might think this is a bit crazy, but this is what's going to happen.
It’s going to steam the cake, it's going to soften it, it's going to just make it really
lovely and moist.
If you've ever had a gingerbread that has kind of like a sticky top and it's really
soft, that's by covering it.
So we're gonna do the same thing for our banana bread and it is gonna make all the difference.
So my banana bread has cooled down, I can't wait to try it.
So just peel away the paper, oh my gosh, this is like of my most favorite things in the
world.
And cut nice, thick slices.
No little weenie slices, thick slices.
Gorgeous, do you see this?
You can tell just by cutting it that it's really soft.
This is not a dense banana bread either, it's still kind of light and fluffy and just, aww--
incredible.
Hands down the best banana bread recipe I've ever found.
There is something about banana bread that kind of evokes food memories in you, you know
it's kind of nostalgic, it is homemade, it's made with love, it's warm, it's comforting,
one of my most favorite baked goods.
Mm, I know you're gonna absolutely to love this recipe, make sure you check out all of
my other best ever recipes, because they're just as good as this one, and I'll see you
back here really soon, for more Bigger Bolder Baking.