Banana Bread Recipe Martha

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Martha Stewart’s banana bread is packed with banana and walnut goodness. It’s a crowd favorite and will disappear as fast as you can make it!

There is something about steaming hot, fresh-out-of-the-oven quick breads. The aroma that fills your home as it bakes, the anticipation as you patiently (or impatiently) wait for it to cool just enough to swipe a delicious slice. What’s not to love?

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Today we’re taking a look at a quick bread classic: banana bread. This is one of the best banana bread recipes we’ve found, thanks to how perfectly it turns out, how easy it is to make, and how delicious it tastes. The two notable ingredients in this recipe are the walnuts that give it a rich, nutty flavor and sour cream gives the bread a perfectly moist texture. So who has offered up this easy, comforting loaf of goodness for our food blog? The one, the only, Martha Stewart!

A home-making icon, Martha Stewart shares her original recipe for banana bread and it’s sure to become your go-to as well. If you can throw ingredients into a bowl and bake the mixture in a loaf pan, you can make this banana bread. Trust us, you’ll be glad to have this recipe around anytime a banana bread craving hits, which for us is often. Enjoy!

Crowd Favorite: Everyone who has a slice says this banana bread recipe is the best they’ve had. If you need a quick bread to take to book club, Sunday school, back-to-school night, or any other get-together, make Martha Stewart’s recipe. You’ll be glad you did.

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Easy: The ease of making this recipe surprised us. You only need a couple bowls and a stand mixer. The stand mixer does all the hard work and you get all the credit.

Customizable: Banana bread is such an easy recipe to customize. Mix in walnuts, pecans, peanuts, chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, butterscotch chips… the sky is the limit. Play around and make it your own great recipe.

This might just become your favorite banana bread ever. Thankfully, the recipe is simple and, thanks to Martha, you can be confident it will turn out right.

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While the oven preheats, add room temperature butter and sugar to a mixing bowl. Mix on medium to high speed with a paddle attachment to cream butter and sugar together. When the butter mixture is light and fluffy, add the eggs and mix again just until combined.

Next, add the flour, baking soda, and salt to a medium-sized bowl. Whisk to mix it then add the flour mixture to the butter-sugar-egg mixture, and mix until it’s combined.

Add the sour cream, vanilla, and mashed bananas. Mix again. Finally, chop or smash the walnuts and stir them into the batter.

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At this point, test the bread for doneness by inserting a toothpick into the middle. If it comes out clean, the bread is done. If batter clings to the toothpick, then it needs another 5-10 minutes.

When finished baking, remove the loaf pan from the oven and let it cool for 10 minutes before removing it from the pan. Place it on a cooling rack to finish cooling.

This yummy banana bread is delicious as-is, but we love playing around with variations, too! Here are a few of our favorites:

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Double Chocolate Banana Bread: Add 3 tablespoons of cocoa powder to the dry ingredients and mix. Follow the rest of the recipe and mix in 1/4 to 1/2 cup of chocolate chips to the batter before baking.

Banana Bread with Cream Cheese Frosting: Beat 6 ounces of cream cheese in an electric mixer with the paddle attachment. Add 3 tablespoons of confectioners’ sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract, and 1/4 teaspoon of kosher salt. Mix until smooth and fluffy. Spread the frosting over the banana bread after it has cooled.

If you want to incorporate whole wheat, we’d recommend going with half white and half wheat flour to prevent the bread from getting too dense.

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We love adding spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg. You could also add chocolate chips to the batter! Use these measurements: 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, a 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, and 1/4 cup chocolate chips.

1:1 stevia powder can be used as a sugar substitute. Brands like Truvia offer a powder that can be used in a 1-to-1 (1:1) ratio.

Martha Stewart’s banana bread is packed with banana and walnut goodness. It’s a crowd favorite and will disappear as fast as you can make it! 

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Matt is passionate about finding the best recipes from the best chefs and using the best ingredients possible to create an amazing meal that blesses others. He has studied chefs including Jacques Pepin, Steven Raichlen, and Julia Child, and attends Rouxbe, a certififed online culinary school.Martha Stewart’s banana bread is outrageously moist, insanely tender, and oh-so-fluffy! The aroma alone is so heavenly it’ll make your mouth water.

This is the technical term for beating together softened butter and sugar to incorporate air pockets in the mixture. These air pockets then help give baked goods, such as banana bread, structure.

The flour, baking soda, and salt should be sifted to help them blend together. It also ensures no lumps of flour or baking soda get stuck in the batter.

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This time, use a rubber spatula to mix the ingredients. You want to be careful in mixing at this point, as an overmixed batter will yield a dry and rubbery bread.

If you choose to do this in the stand mixer, keep the paddle attachment and just set it to the lowest/slowest setting available.

Let it sit in the pan for 10 minutes to help cook it further. Then, transfer it onto a wire rack to cool completely.

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Let the banana bread cool completely on the wire rack before storing. Then, wrap it in plastic wrap or foil, or place it in an airtight container.

Wrap completely cooled banana bread in plastic wrap or foil and place it in a freezer-safe bag. Freeze for up to 3 months.

You can either wrap the whole bread or slice it up first and wrap individually. I like the latter method because it allows me to take out just a few slices at a time.

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Martha Stewart Banana Bread