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Banana Bread with Walnuts
Banana bread is a type of quick-bread or cake. This recipe yields a dense and moist banana bread, studded with walnuts.
Ingredients
- all-purpose flour490 g
- baking powder5 1/2 + 1/8 tsp
- salt1 pinch
- butter, softened8 oz
- turbinado sugar320 g
- eggs, 200 g4 ea.
- mashed banana950 g
- walnuts, coarsely chopped2 1/2 cup
- turbinado sugar, for sprinkling
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 8 steps
Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt.
Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
Whisk the eggs, and gradually beat them into the butter mixture.
Mix in one third of the flour mixture, followed by half the banana. Continue alternating in this way until all the dry mixture and mashed banana is incorporated.
Stir in the walnuts.
Grease and line 2 loaf pans. Divide batter evenly between pans. Sprinkle the tops with additional turbinado sugar.
Bake at 350°F for at least 1 hour. After this point, check the banana bread every 10 minutes or so until it is done. It will be browned, and a skewer inserted into the center of the loaf should come out clean with no more than moist crumbs attached.
Let cool to room temperature in the pans. Unmold.
Region evidence: no stated origin (basic dish)
