Hey everyone, it's Natasha of Natashaskitchen.com. Today we're making our
all-time favorite banana bread. It's so soft, moist and loaded with ripe bananas,
tiny raisins and toasted walnuts. This is the best way to use overripe bananas.
You'll start with 1/2 a cup of unsalted softened butter. Place that in a large
mixing bowl and add 3/4 cup of sugar. Cream those together on medium-high
speed. In a second medium mixing bowl mash together 3 ripe bananas. Coarsely
mash them up until you reach the consistency of baby food and there's no
need for perfection here. Add the mashed bananas to the rest of your batter, along
with two large room-temperature eggs and mix those together until combined. In a
small mixing bowl whisk together one and a half cups of flour, a tsp of
baking soda and half a tsp of salt. Add those to the creamed mixture and
stir to combine. Stir in 1/2 a tsp of real vanilla extract and last but not
least, add half a cup of raisins and one cup of coarsely chopped, toasted walnuts.
Using a spatula, fold those together just until combined. This batter looks and
smells amazing. Use a little pat of butter to grease the sides and bottom of
a loaf pan then dust with flour.This will help keep the banana bread from
sticking to the pan. Shake out any excess flour then transfer all of your banana
bread batter into your prepared pan,
lightly smooth out the top and bake in a preheated oven at 350˚F
for 55 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick, inserted into the center of
the loaf, comes out clean. Once it's out of the oven, let it rest in the pan for
about 10 minutes before transferring it to a wire rack to cool to room
temperature. All right, it's cooled down to the point where it's just warm and
we're gonna do the taste test. Okay, so I'm gonna slice this up and that rose
beautifully. Okay, here we go...
Oh my goodness, you guys, my kitchen smells like a bakery right now! Mm-hmm!
And I want you to look at what's inside of this luscious loaf. All right, I cannot
wait to bite into this thing, look at that. It's so soft and moist and loaded
with everything good... so many walnuts and raisins. And if you got somebody that's
allergic or doesn't like walnuts or raisins, you could totally leave them out.
The banana bread will still be amazing. Okay, let's do this taste test. Mm-hmm...
Okay, Wow! This is loaded with flavor. You can really taste the sweet pop of
raisins and then the crunchy walnuts, oh my goodness! YUM! And a lot of bananas. It has
really good banana flavor. This is my absolute favorite banana bread. If you guys
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