I know I’ve mentioned this before but even though I LOVE fruit, I don’t like it in my desserts or other dishes.
Weird, I know.
I guess you could say I was surprised then when my mom made my family some Banana Bread and I could NOT stop eating it.
It was DELISH!!!
I asked her what the secret was to The Best Banana Bread Recipe and she said “Whipped Topping and Sour Cream.”
YUP. Both of those ingredients are in this bread and make it so stinkin’ good and so (although I don’t really like this word) MOIST!!
I don’t think I’ll ever use another Banana Bread recipe again.
The Best Banana Bread
By August 17, 2012
- Yield: 2 loaves
A super moist and flavor-filled recipe for banana bread.
Ingredients
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- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup oil
- 3 eggs
- 3 tsp. vanilla
- 1 12 oz. carton of sour cream
- 4 bananas ripe
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 envelope whipped topping
- pinch of salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Spray two loaf pans with spray or grease and flour.
- Cream sugars, oil and eggs. Add vanilla, sour cream, and bananas. Mix well.
- In a separate bowl combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and powdered whipped topping. Add dry mixture to wet mixture and mix well. (You can add chocolate chips as well - optional)
- Pour into prepared pans. Bake 40-50 minutes.
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Since then I have made this recipe every other week for the last few months. It’s the perfect go-to recipe when the bananas start getting old and you don’t want to waste them and throw them away.
So, what’s your favorite Banana Bread recipe? Leave a link below so I can check it out.
ENJOY!
Ok so what is the recipe? It looks soooooo yummy!
Can you share the recipe?
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I use a banana bread recipe that includes a stick of butter & a brick of cream cheese (for two loaves)… super tasty, not super good for you! I bring it up another notch by adding a streusel topping – two parts flour to one part butter & one part brown sugar mixed together until it’s crumbly. For two loaves I use 4T flour, 2T butter & brown sugar. YUM!
I would love to try your recipe!!!!
Yum! It’s been so long since I made banana bread, my boys always eat all our bananas while they’re still a little green. I’ll have to hide some bananas to make this.
I love fruit in EVERYTHING!! 
And that is kinda strange you don’t like fruit in desserts and other dishes.
Your blog is super cute!
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Stephanie
Your bread sounds amazing! I converted a family favorite of ours to make it gluten free, here is the link for mine:
http://twelveoeight.blogspot.com/2012/05/banana-muffins-with-cinnamon-crumble.html
xoxo, Tanya
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he recipe is great.
Wow! The title of the recipe couldn’t be more fitting!
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My mom’s is better…
As an addition, try 3 TBSP’s of cinnamon.
what is an “envelope of whipped topping”? I cannot find a store around me that carries it.
ditto
At the stores by me it comes in a small box with 4 envelopes called whipped topping and it’s near the pudding section.
I found it in the baking aisle with the pudding and tapioca mixes.
Yum! We love Banana Bread in our house! Stopping by to let you know that I featured you and your amazing Pinterest Boards on my blog today…http://hoosierhomemade.com/inspiration-sunday-pinterest-love/
Thanks for the inspiration!
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I have eaten this one. This is really best banana bread.
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Perhaps, this banana bread tastes good. Well. I can find it after making this recipe.
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Wow! What an awesome recipe, will definitely try this one and I pinned it as well. Thanks so much.
what is an envelope of whipped topping?
You can find it over in the jello aisle. It comes with 4 packets usually in a box.
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The envelopes of dry whipped topping are Dream Whip.
The recipe calls for 1 carton of sour cream. I can only find 8 or 12 oz (or bigger) cartons and am wondering if there was maybe a typo in the recipe. Let me know! Don’t want to weigh it down too much!
Is there anything that can be used as a substitute for the dream whip? I can’t find it at my grocery store.
I agree, this IS the BEST Banana Bread recipe….ever! It is identical (except for the fact that she does not use the envelope of whipped topping) to the one my Mom has been making for 30+ years. Each and every time she makes it the bread disappears within a day! She has received countless compliments on her banana bread and it’s always the first to sell out at our church bake sales. The sour cream is the secret, hands down!
One other note: Mom usually adds chopped pecans, too, to give it that little “something special!” Of course, being from Georgia, USA we add pecans to almost everything and anything we can!
I just made this and it was awesome! Super moist and delicious and would be good with walnuts!
So glad to hear you like it!! And walnuts would definitely be good in it – will have to try that next time!
Can I leave out the whipped topping out or what can I replace it with? We are overseas therefore not available at the stores here, thanks.
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Hello, I’m gona make this banana bread recipe. Can you tell me please, did you use 2 regular size loaf pans? I’m guessing it makes two full size loaves. Thx U!
We LOVE banana bread in our house! It rarely lasts more than a couple of days. I have a favorite, but the recipe is lost in our storage unit at the moment. I’ve been making the one I linked below with less banana and sometimes adding some unsweetened applesauce when I’m short a couple of bananas.
http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/20144/banana-banana-bread