- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Total Time: 1 hour 20 mins
- Yield: 1 large loaf 1x
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Total Time: 1 hour 20 mins
- Yield: 1 large loaf 1x
Scale:
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Total Time: 1 hour 20 mins
- Yield: 1 large loaf 1x
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 2 large ripe bananas, mashed
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 1/2 cup plain, whole-milk yogurt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup white whole wheat flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 banana, for topping (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a large loaf pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a small saucepan, heat the butter over low heat for roughly 5 minutes, swirling the pan every 20 seconds or so. Heat until the milk solids turn a light golden brown color. Remove from heat and allow to cool slightly.
- In a large bowl, mix together sugar, mashed bananas, and brown butter. After mixing, stir in eggs, yogurt, and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, whisk both flours, baking soda, and salt. Fold gently into batter until just combined.
- Pour into loaf pan and top with thinly sliced banana pieces. I used ½ a banana for this part. Bake for roughly 1 hour, until a knife inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack before serving!
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This is my go-to banana bread recipe! I’ve gifted this banana bread to a lot of people and have received a ton of compliments. Thank you so much Sarah!!
★★★★★
Love the idea of brown butter with banana bread. However, it wasn’t sweet enough, which is unusual for your recipes. Would’ve been a great recipe had the amount of sugar not been chopped off by the ad in the recipe. I only saw the 1/4 cup of sugar below the ad. In looking at the recipe the next day did I realize there was a 1 above the ad and the 1/4 cup below the ad! So it was 1 1/4 cup of sugar! Oh well… I’ll try again the next time I have ripe bananas.
This is my son’ favorite. The only banana bread he will eat.
I am a huge fan of your page and I love love the recipes I have tried out so far. I am trying to make this banana bread but I have a question. Seeing as I have never make one or eaten one before, I like to know if I have to grease and flour or line the loaf pan before pouring the batter in it.
And secondly what I have noticed is that most bakers in Europe or America use more B.S and B.P while making cakes than we do in Africa, I am a bit confused about it, is that because there is something different about the brands we use here?
What a pretty banana bread! Brown butter makes everything magical so I have no doubt this is absolutely delicious!!
Are there any substitutions I can use for the white sugar? Brown sugar, coconut sugar, honey..? Thanks!
Brown sugar would be amazing!