This is seriously the easiest banana bread recipe ever and with the few tweaks I’ve made, it’s become the tastiest (I’m modest, no?) You will need:
3 bananas
1 egg
1 Cup sugar (I use half white, half brown)
1/2 stick of melted butter
1 tsp. of vanilla
1 1/2 cup of flour (I use half AP, half wheat if I have it on hand)
1 tsp of baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup walnuts
First, mash up your bananas. I’ve found that the browner they are, the sweeter and moist the bread
Next, mix the mashed bananas with the sugar, the egg, the half stick melted butter and the tsp of vanilla in a mixer (or by hand, whichever you fancy)
Next, mix in the flour, baking soda and salt.
After the dry ingredients are mixed in, add in the 1 cup of chopped walnuts and mix. When that’s done, you can do one of two things:
1) preheat the oven to 325, pour the bread into a greased loaf tin and bake at 325 for an hour or until done (test by sticking a toothpick into the center of the bread
2) if you’re like me and like to make things as cake like as possible, preheat the oven to 325 anyways but let the dough sit and make the easiest strudel topping evar
You will need 3 tbls of brown sugar, 3 tbls of AP flour, 1/4 tsp cinnamon and 2 tbls of butter (slightly softened is usually easiest to work with but not too mushy). Put all the dry stuff in a bowl, and then cut in the two tablespoons of butter until it resembles coarse crumbs (I use a small red spatula)
Once the topping is done, take the dough, pour into a greased loaf pan (I usually use butter and then lightly flour the pan), and then pour the topping on. Spread the topping around so it covers the whole pan.
And then stick the pan into the oven at 325 for an hour (In my oven, it takes roughly an hour and 15). After the bread is done (test by inserting a toothpick into the center – it should come out clean, no goo), take it out to cool on a wire rack. Cook completely, remove from pan and enjoy!
