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
- 490 g all-purpose flour
- 5½+⅛ tsp baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 8 oz butter, softened
- 320 g turbinado sugar
- 4 ea. (200 g) eggs
- 950 g mashed banana
- 2 ½ cups walnuts, coarsely chopped
- Turbinado sugar for sprinkling
Ingredients for 28 servings (3 kg) · the original recipe
Method
- 1
Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt.
- 2
Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
- 3
Whisk the eggs, and gradually beat them into the butter mixture.
- 4
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.
- 5
Stir in the walnuts.
- 6
Grease and line 2 loaf pans. Divide batter evenly between pans. Sprinkle the tops with additional turbinado sugar.
- 7
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.
Oven - 8
Let cool to room temperature in the pans. Unmold.
Recipe from Wikibooks Cookbook, written by Wikibooks contributors. Used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; the ingredient list and method on this page are taken from that page and edited (its notes, tips and variations are not reproduced), and are available under the same licence. The macros, equipment tags and scaling are Ma Kitchen’s own and are not the source’s figures. Ma Kitchen is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wikibooks Cookbook. Copied on 2026-11-12.
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