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Banana Bread Machine
Ingredients
- 3 – Bananas (ripe & MEDIUM-sized bananas) – 230 grams – For the best results, you should use exactly 1 cup of mashed bananas.
- 8 Tablespoons – Unsalted Butter (softened) – 115 grams
- 2 – Eggs (lightly beaten) – 114 grams – Use large eggs (not extra large or jumbo eggs)
- 1 Tsp – Vanilla Extract – 5 milliliters
- 1 Cup – Light Brown Sugar (packed cup) – 215 grams
- 2 Cups – Flour (all-purpose) – 280 grams
- 1 Tsp – Baking Soda – 5 grams
- 1 Tsp – Baking Powder – 4 grams
- 1/2 Tsp – Salt – 3 grams
- Optional – 1/2 Cup – Chopped Walnuts or Mini Chocolate Chips
- Optional – 1 Teaspoon – Ground Cinnamon – Some people like to add cinnamon if their bananas are not super ripe.
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Directions
- Prep Time – 10 minutes
- Total Machine Time – approximately 1:40 hours. FYI – The machine will spend roughly 20 minutes mixing and 1:20 hours baking.
- Bread Machine Settings – Quick Bread/Cake, Light Color, 2 lb
- Beat the eggs.
- Mash bananas with a fork.
- Soften the butter in a microwave. FYI – I like to partially melt my butter for better “mixability”.
- Add the mashed bananas, butter, eggs & vanilla extract into the bread pan and then add the other ingredients. Try to follow the order of the ingredients listed above so that liquid ingredients are placed in the bread pan first and the dry ingredients second. Be aware that the bread pan should be removed from the bread machine before you start to add any ingredients. This helps to avoid spilling any material inside the bread machine. The bread machine should always be unplugged when removing the bread pan.
- Put the bread pan (with all of the ingredients) back into the bread machine, close the bread machine lid and then plug in the bread machine.
- Enter the bread machine settings (Quick Bread/Cake, Light Color) and press the start button. FYI – Before making this recipe, please READ the tips section below for more information regarding the sweet quick bread setting used to make banana breads. On your machine, this setting might be called “quick bread”, “quick bread/cake”, “cake”, etc. However, some manufacturers use the “quick bread” setting for rapid sandwich-type breads that use yeast (and not for quick breads such as banana bread that use baking powder/soda). Therefore, this setting can be very confusing… but the tips section below will help you to find the right setting to use on your machine. You need to enter the correct banana bread setting used by your SPECIFIC bread machine model or the banana bread could be under or overcooked.
- Optional – If you want to add chopped walnuts or mini chocolate chips to enhance this basic banana bread recipe, please add them after the first bread machine mixing cycle and before the second mixing (final mixing).
- When the bread machine has finished baking the bread, unplug the bread machine, remove the bread pan and place it on a wooden cutting board. Use oven mitts when removing the bread pan because it will be very hot!
- After removing the bread pan from the bread machine, you should let the banana bread stay within the warm bread pan on a wooden cutting board for 10 minutes (as this finishes the baking process) before you remove the banana bread from the bread pan. Wear oven mitts.
- After the 10 minute “cooldown”, you should remove the banana bread from the bread pan and place the banana bread on a wire cooling rack to finish cooling. Use oven mitts when removing the bread.
- You should allow the banana bread to completely cool before cutting. This can take up to 2 hours. Otherwise, the banana bread will break (crumble) more easily when cut.
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