Simple, moist bread made with over ripe bananas and toasted walnuts.It is a very humble recipe, just made with everyday pantry ingredients, not even a mixer is needed just a simple fork or whisk will do! It makes a good after school snack for kids or enjoy for breakfast with a cup of coffee or simply gift friends and family as a holiday gift!
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| Ingredients | |
|---|---|
| 1 cup | Walnuts |
| 1 & ¾ cup | All purpose flour |
| 1 cup | Sugar (brown or white) |
| 1 teaspoon | Baking powder |
| ¼ teaspoon | Baking soda |
| ¼ teaspoon | Salt |
| 1 teaspoon | Vanilla extract |
| 2 medium | Eggs |
| 3 | Banana (ripe) |
| ½ cup | Butter (or 1 stick) |
This recipe is quite simple and involves less work and don’t even need an electric beater. All you need is the basic ingredients, wide bowl, spatula..of course an oven.
Step 1 : Preheat oven to 350F and keep it ready. Spread the walnuts in an oven proof tray and toast for 7 minutes. Keep an eye on them while toasting to avoid them getting too brown. Remove and cool. (Dry toast in a frying pan over stove top also works ) Reserve half of the walnuts for topping and chop the rest roughly. Melt the butter and cool. Keep a loaf pan ready all buttered or lined with parchment paper for baking. Mash the bananas using your hand removing all lumps.
Step 2 : Take a bowl, combine all purpose flour, salt, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and finely chopped toasted walnuts.
Step 3 : Take a bowl, lightly beat the eggs with a whisk, add butter, vanilla and mashed bananas. Combine all these to make a thick batter.
Step 4 : Now slowly add the dry ingredients combined in step 2 to this wet batter. gently fold with a spatula until all well combined to make a chunky batter.
Step 5 : Pour this over the greased pan and top them with the remaining toasted walnuts and bake for about 55 to 60 minutes in the middle rack or until a toothpick or knife inserted comes out clean.
Step 6 : Once baked, cool it completely, slice and serve.
Notes
Yield: 1 loaf or 8 to 9 slices.
This bread will be good only for 3 to 4 days. Use of blight brown or dark sugar gives good flavor. Its also OK to use regular white sugar. Always use ripe medium sized bananas for this bread. 3 bananas should yield about 1 to 1 1/3 cup of mashed banana puree.
You can also use half wheat flour and half all purpose for this recipe. Cake will be slightly dense.
Recipe source: allrecipes.com
23 Comments
Hai, can we use oil instead of butter??
Hello DDD, yes you can… just that you will miss the rich butter flavor but will work for the recipe. Try using vegetable oil instead of butter. Thanks, pls send a click when you make it!
Sure Mullai, thank you for the reply ?
Hi Mullai mam,
Will u please post some sugarless cake recipes. thanks.
hi mullai.. i have a doubt, which variety of banana we can use to make this cake so it wil be very tasty. varieties like poombalam, rastali, karpooravali,moris etc(tamil words)
Hi Mullai,
i fond of starbucks banana walnut bread. i tried this cake. it came very well like starbucks cake.. 🙂 . i am looking this site for long time..
Can I use Self Raising Flour instead of All Purpose Flour with baking soda and baking powder?
Hi Mullai Akka, Tried this recipe. Asusual amazing :):) Esplly wth walnuts (my fav.) it jst disappeared like anythng. Actually , I have a question for ask you akka.. After knowing that yeast would give us a good soft and fluffy rotis, I got into a habit of adding a tsp of yeast while preparing the dough for rotis. We make rotis every alternatve days. So my doubt is.. Is yeast good for health if consumed at regular basis??
Ron, I don't know whether yeast is good or bad but too much of anything is not that good for your health. Soft chappatis can be made using warm water really dont need the help of yeast. Your goal is to take healthy food so avoid taking too much of yeast. Thanks.
Very tasty recipe. Thanks.
Dear Mullai,
Thanks for your reply. I have a microwave at home…Can you pls post some recipes which can be done using a microwave… ? I have bought one few months back, and am longing to do something special using it….(especially cake and chicken recipes) : )
Thanks,
Gowri
Hi Mullai
Very good receipe. Plz tell me how to do this receipe using microwave & the difference between baking soda & baking powder.
Viji
This recipe will not suit for microwave, you will need a conventional oven. BTW, pls do a search for the other question, it has been discussed many times.
Hi Mullai,
Can you pls tell me how to do this recipe using a microwave oven…? Looks very good and I feel like trying this at home for my hubby’s birthday next week and surprise him….pls help…
Thanks,
Gowri
Hi Mullai,
What is the difference between Baking Soda and Baking Powder.
i wont use egg in my cooking..is that ok to ignore egg..
You can find egg replacer which you can use everyplace egg is used…it is available in mother's food market….or you might find it any natural food store, it is the best alternative I found to egg! hope this helps…
Mullai,
I thought usually bread is made with yeast and if we add baking powder and baking soda, then its called cake..but its not so here in this recipe…any idea, why? Just wondering how this recipe will turn out if I add yeast instead of baking powder and soda…
so tempting can’t wait to try thanks mullai for the wonderful recipe.
Hi Mullai, Looks so tempting and very easy recipe to put together. Will try it soon!
i have seen only the white sugar what about that dark colour sugar , where we can find.
Hi Mullai,
Very tasty recipe.
Whats the difference between Baking soda & Baking Powder.