Banana Nut Bread

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Moist, dense, and delicious banana nut bread to brighten your day! This simple banana bread is filled with chopped walnuts and is the perfect non-yeast bread recipe to make all year long.

Best Banana Nut Bread

Baking banana bread makes me happy. I can’t be in a bad mood when I know banana bread is cooking in the oven. The aroma’s of the nut bread fill up my entire house and everyone knows something yummy is coming. It’s moist, and perfectly flavored, with a little crunch from the toasted walnuts. I could eat an entire loaf if I’m not careful. 😉

We love having delicious quick bread (no-yeast) recipes on hand (like our Snickerdoodle Bread and Glazed Lemon Zucchini Bread), and will be adding this recipe to that list.

I love having a slice with my breakfast or as a little pick-me-up in the afternoon. Sometimes my family even eats it for dessert – just heat it up for 10 seconds in the microwave and serve it with vanilla ice cream. SO yummy!

How to Make Banana Nut Bread

This recipe makes approximately two loaf pans of banana nut bread – because one is just not enough!

Grease the two loaf pans and preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

In a mixer, cream the sugar, oil, and eggs together. Add the vanilla, sour cream, and bananas. If you don’t have sour cream, you can substitute with greek yogurt. Sometimes I will mash my bananas separately and add them into the mixture. Very ripe bananas work best – they need to be soft with at least some black because they make the bread moist and more flavorful.

Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, nuts, salt, and powdered whipped topping. Then add the dry mixture to the wet mixture and mix well. Feel free to add chocolate chips to the batter! You could even add it to half the batter so you have one plain loaf and one with chocolate chips.

After you’ve poured the batter into the pans, cook the bread in the oven for 40-50 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

How to store and freeze Banana Nut bread?

Store your banana bread in an airtight container, a zip plastic bag, or wrap it in tinfoil. You can keep it in the fridge, on the counter at room temperature, or freeze it for up to 4 months.

what nuts can you put in banana bread?

Walnuts are our nut of choice to add to banana bread. We like to toast them before adding them, but they’re great not toasted as well. Chopped pecans are our second choice.

Can you use this recipe for Banana Nut Muffins?

Of course, you can! Just follow our Banana Muffins Recipe for cooking times and temps to turn this recipe into banana nut muffins – that are perfect for school lunches and morning snacks.

I know you’re going to love this banana nut bread with sour cream. It is so moist and delicious. 🙂

For more banana bread recipes, check out:

• Pumpkin Banana Bread
• Chocolate Banana Bread
• Best Banana Bread
• Peanut Butter Banana Bread
• Cream Cheese Banana Bread

Banana Nut Bread Recipe

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Moist, dense, and delicious banana nut bread to brighten your day! This simple banana bread is filled with chopped walnuts and is the perfect non-yeast bread recipe to make all year long.

Course Bread

Cuisine American

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 50 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes

Servings 16 slices

Calories 363 kcal

Author Kristyn Merkley

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup oil
• 3 eggs
• 3 tsp vanilla
• 12 oz sour cream
• 4 bananas ripe
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 envelope whipped topping
• 1 cup toasted walnuts chopped
• pinch of salt

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350. Spray two large loaf pans with spray or grease and flour.

2. Cream sugars, oil and eggs. Add vanilla, sour cream, and bananas. Mix well.

3. In a separate bowl combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, nuts and powdered whipped topping. Add dry mixture to wet mixture and mix well. (You can add chocolate chips as well - optional)

4. Pour into prepared pans. Bake 40-50 minutes.

Nutrition Facts

Banana Nut Bread Recipe

Amount Per Serving

Calories 363 Calories from Fat 153

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 17g 26%

Saturated Fat 3g 15%

Cholesterol 41mg 14%

Sodium 112mg 5%

Potassium 249mg 7%

Total Carbohydrates 49g 16%

Dietary Fiber 1g 4%

Sugars 30g

Protein 4g 8%

Vitamin A 3.9%

Vitamin C 3.5%

Calcium 6.5%

Iron 8.3%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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