My kiddos love it when I make them banana bread. In fact, even the kids who don’t love bananas, love my banana bread recipe. They were big fans of this simple twist on that recipe where we throw in a little bit of Nutella. It’s an easy recipe, but makes a great after school snack or addition to a brunch table.
Other Banana Bread Variations
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If you make this Nutella Banana Bread or any of my other recipes, leave me a comment and let me know what you think! Bread pans can make or break a recipe. I’ve had bread pans that produced absolutely beautiful loaves of bread and pans that were and utter disappointment. I recently purchased this pan, and I can verify that it is fantastic. All of my pans from USA Baking have been fantastic.
Measure your flour correctly. Whisk your flour in the container your store it in to aerate it (this new tip comes from Julianne at Beyond Frosting). Then scoop the flour from the container into a dry measuring cup and level it off. Measuring this way will prevent your flour from packing, adding too much flour to the recipe, and leaving you with dry bread.Grab baking soda, not baking powder. These two are both used in baking recipes, but they behave very differently, so it’s important you use the correct one. Because we are using sour cream (which is acidic) we can use baking soda in this recipe.Make sure your baking soda is still active. Baking soda needs to be replaced regularly to ensure that it will still react with the other ingredients in your baked goods. To test your baking soda, toss a little in some vinegar. It should bubble immediately. If it doesn’t, it’s time to replace it.Cool the butter. After melting the butter, you need to let it cool for a minute or two. If you don’t, when you combine it with the eggs, it will start to cook them. We don’t want our eggs to cook until they hit the oven.Use sour cream or yogurt. If your family doesn’t love sour cream, you can also use yogurt in this recipe and it will still work perfectly. Any flavor yogurt will work.Let your bananas ripen naturally. Read more on this below.
Yes, tossing bananas in the oven will brown them and get them to be the right consistency for this bread. But, part of what happens when bananas ripen naturally is that they release more sugar. Over ripe bananas are sweeter than just barely ripe bananas. So the over ripe banana brings more sweetness to your bread. If you use your oven to ripen them, you are missing out on that sweetness. When you are ready to eat, the slice of banana bread can be left at room temperature and will thaw in 30 to 60 minutes.
