My roommate and boyfriend absolutely love banana bread. If either of them see me pulling bananas out of the freezer, they excitedly start asking “Are you making it?!” Yes, yes I am.

My favorite banana bread recipe has an ingredient that I thought was very uncommon: sour cream. After reading a few more recipes, though, I found that it’s actually a popular addition. Makes it nice and moist. Don’t tell Boyfriend, this would sound super weird to him.

This recipe yields quite a bit of banana bread, as I usually end up freezing some, but if you simply want a sane person’s amount of banana bread I’d halve this.

Cream the butter and the sugar. Mix in the eggs, bananas, vanilla, and cinnamon. Add the salt, baking soda, and flour. Here’s where you could also add walnuts… but why would you?

In a small bowl, combine the extra brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon. Grease your loaf pans or muffin tins, and sprinkle a little bit of the mixture into them.

Pour the batter right on top, sprinkle more of the brown sugar mixture on, and bake it at 325. The muffins only take 20 minutes or so, but the loaf can take up to an hour to cook.

Yummm. Honestly… I didn’t end up needing to freeze much 🙂

 
 

Banana Bread
Adapted from AllRecipes

Ingredients
Topping:
1/4 cup brown sugar

  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tbsp flour
  • Batter:
  • 3/4 cup butter
  • 3 cups white sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 6 very ripe bananas, mashed
  • 1 (16 ounce) container sour cream
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 3 tsp baking soda
  • 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
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  • Directions
  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease four 7×3 inch loaf pans, or four muffin tins, or some combination. In a small bowl, stir together 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and 1 tablespoon flour. Dust pans lightly with cinnamon and sugar mixture. In a large bowl, cream butter and 3 cups sugar. Mix in eggs, mashed bananas, sour cream, vanilla and cinnamon. Mix in salt, baking soda and flour. Stir in nuts. Divide into prepared pans. Sprinkle on remaining brown sugar and cinnamon mixture. Bake for 1 hour if in loaf pans, or 15-20 minutes if in muffin tins, until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.