Easy 4-Ingredient Banana Bread Recipe (With No Cake Mix)

Bananas - You must use very ripe bananas. If they are not ripe enough, the fruit will be too firm to mash and create a very heavy batter that is hard to rise in the oven. Choose bananas with plenty of brown spots or one that’s already gone completely black. You can force the ripening process in an oven if necessary. Add one extra banana for decorating the top if you want.

Sweetener - brown sugar sweetens the banana bread batter while adding a delicious depth of flavor. You can substitute it with regular white sugar.

Eggs - 2 whole eggs at room temperature for best results

Flour - Self-raising flour contains added baking powder and salt. This saves you from needing to consider two additional ingredients in the recipes. Baking powder is an important leavening agent and shouldn’t be omitted. Therefore, if you don’t have self-rising flour, you can substitute with 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour, 2 ¼ tsp baking powder, and ½ tsp salt.

That’s all you need to make delicious banana bread recipe, and it’s just right as it is!

But if you’re the kind of person who likes expanding on a single recipe and trying all the variations, think about these optional add-ins. Pick one, mix and match, or add all of these yummy (completely optional!) ingredients to your cake batter for a fun twist on flavor.

¾ cup semisweet chocolate chips

½ cup chopped walnuts

½ cup shredded coconut

1 tsp ground cinnamon

In addition to these, Taste of Home has even more ways to upgrade your banana bread with some pretty drool-worthy ideas.

This recipe is naturally dairy-free and vegetarian.

Directions at easyhomemadelife.com

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