Kids Banana Bread
By America's Test Kitchen KidsPublished on January 13, 2023
Time
1½ hours, plus cooling time
Yield
Serves 10
What Kids Are Saying
“Perfect crustiness at the top, and the sides were a nice mix of crusty and soft.” —Ami, recipe tester, age 10
Ingredients
Vegetable oil spray 2 cups all-purpose flour ¾ teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon table salt 3 very ripe bananas (skins should be speckled black)¾ cup sugar 2 large eggs 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled¼ cup plain yogurt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray bottom and sides of 8½-by-4½-inch metal loaf pan with vegetable oil spray.
- In medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt.
- Peel bananas and place in large bowl. Use large fork or potato masher to mash bananas until broken down but still chunky.
- Add sugar, eggs, melted butter, yogurt, and vanilla to bowl with bananas and whisk until combined.
- Add flour mixture and use rubber spatula to gently stir until just combined and no dry flour is visible. Do not overmix—batter should look thick and chunky. Use rubber spatula to scrape batter into greased loaf pan and smooth top.
- Place loaf pan in oven. Bake until banana bread is golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 55 minutes.
- Use oven mitts to remove banana bread from oven and place on cooling rack (ask an adult for help). Let banana bread cool in pan for 15 minutes.
- Use oven mitts to carefully turn loaf pan on its side and remove banana bread from pan. Let banana bread cool on cooling rack for at least 1 hour. Transfer to cutting board, slice, and serve.
Time
1½ hours, plus cooling timeYield
Serves 10What Kids Are Saying
“Perfect crustiness at the top, and the sides were a nice mix of crusty and soft.” —Ami, recipe tester, age 10Ingredients
Vegetable oil spray
2 cups all-purpose flour
¾ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon table salt
3 very ripe bananas (skins should be speckled black)
¾ cup sugar
2 large eggs
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
¼ cup plain yogurt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Test Kitchen Techniques
Ingredients
Vegetable oil spray
2 cups all-purpose flour
¾ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon table salt
3 very ripe bananas (skins should be speckled black)
¾ cup sugar
2 large eggs
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
¼ cup plain yogurt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Test Kitchen Techniques
Ingredients
Vegetable oil spray
2 cups all-purpose flour
¾ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon table salt
3 very ripe bananas (skins should be speckled black)
¾ cup sugar
2 large eggs
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
¼ cup plain yogurt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Test Kitchen Techniques
Why This Recipe Works
Put your overripe bananas to good (and delicious) use with this kid-tested, kid-approved banana bread. While kids make the simple stir-together batter, impress them with this fun fact: Bananas are technically berries (really!). Botanists define a berry as a fruit that grows from one flower and usually contains several seeds. That means bananas, which grow from individual flowers and contain tiny seeds, are berries. After peeling their bananas in step 3, have kids slice through one banana crosswise (the short way)—see if they can spot the tiny brown-black seeds inside before they start mashing the bananas for their banana bread.
Instructions
- Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray bottom and sides of 8½-by-4½-inch metal loaf pan with vegetable oil spray.
- In medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt.
- Peel bananas and place in large bowl. Use large fork or potato masher to mash bananas until broken down but still chunky.
- Add sugar, eggs, melted butter, yogurt, and vanilla to bowl with bananas and whisk until combined.
- Add flour mixture and use rubber spatula to gently stir until just combined and no dry flour is visible. Do not overmix—batter should look thick and chunky. Use rubber spatula to scrape batter into greased loaf pan and smooth top.
- Place loaf pan in oven. Bake until banana bread is golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 55 minutes.
- Use oven mitts to remove banana bread from oven and place on cooling rack (ask an adult for help). Let banana bread cool in pan for 15 minutes.
- Use oven mitts to carefully turn loaf pan on its side and remove banana bread from pan. Let banana bread cool on cooling rack for at least 1 hour. Transfer to cutting board, slice, and serve.
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