I want your best banana bread recipe! I have a good one but it just doesn't give that good crown on the top of the loaf...it's a very dense moist bread- which is good..but doesn't look as nice as it could!

ya know my banana bread always sucks. I make awesome zucchini bread though!

This doesn't help you one bit. I am a lousy baker. But I'll bump it in the hope somebody else will see it.

I make this one and like it a lot.

Shortening 1/3 cup
Sugar 3/4 cup
1 egg well beaten
1-1/2 cup sifted flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (I usually add a few more)
1-1/2 cup mashed banana (2 really ripe bananas)
2 Tablespoons water
1 tsp vanilla

Mix ingredients together really well. Bake in a moderate oven 350 degrees for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Makes 1 loaf.

My mom always said that if you sub half the sugar for brown sugar it comes out very moist. I always do this

BANANA BREAD

1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
6 or 7 ripe bananas
4 eggs, well beaten
3 ½ cups flour
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda

Cream together butter and sugar until light. Add bananas & eggs and mix well. Sift together flour, salt and baking soda. Blend dry ingredients into creamed mixture, being sure not to over mix. Pour batter equally into 2”x4”x8” loaf pans which have been lightly oiled and floured. Bake at 350º for 45 to 60 minutes till toothpick inserted well into middle of center of loaf comes out clean.

Makes 2 loaf's.

Banana Bread
3 1/3 cups of sugar
4 eggs, beaten
1 1/3 cup oil
3 cups mashed bananas
2 tsp vanilla
2 tsp baking soda
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
4 1/2 cup flour
1 1/3 cup buttermilk
2 cups chopped nuts (optional)

Beat sugar and oil together until well blended. Add beaten eggs, bananas, and vanilla. Blend well. In large bowl add nuts, flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda. Blend well and add banana mixture to it. Stir with wooden spoon only until flour disappears. Don't beat. Blend in buttermilk. Pour into greased and flour pans. Bake about 40-45 minutes at 350^. Turn out on racks ... turning over on bottoms to cool completely.

Make 2 big loaves! or about a dozen little one!

This recipe is soooo yummy. Dense and very moist!