Top Secret Banana Bread
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Next time you make banana bread, give this top secret banana bread recipe a try. There are two secrets to this bread that makes it amazing.
This first secret is to mix the baking soda into the sour cream. This step makes the moistest banana bread. When baking is used with acidic ingredients – such as buttermilk, yogurt or sour cream – it produces carbon dioxide gas bubbles. These bubbles cause the batter or dough to rise. The sour cream also is an ingredient that helps to add tenderness to the batter.
The second secret is it includes not only vanilla extract, but also some almond extract. It’s an ingredient that isn’t something you can notice in the bread. You just know there is something in there that makes it taste awesome and that almond extract is what does it.
Did you know that some food historians believe banana bread is a result of the Great Depression? It is thought that resourceful housewives did not want to throw away overripe bananas (as they were still a costly item to
purchase). However, there are others who believe that banana bread was a result of corporate kitchens wanting to promote flour and baking soda products. However, we got banana bread, I sure am glad we have it.
Here is what you need to make the
Top Secret Banana Bread
- BUTTER
- SUGAR
- EGGS
- FLOUR
- BAKING SODA
- SOUR CREAM
- SALT
- OVERRIPE BANANAS
- VANILLA
- ALMOND EXTRACT
- WALNUTS
Top Secret Banana Bread
Real Mom Kitchen
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 ½ cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ cup sour cream
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 ½ cup mashed bananas about 3
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ½ tsp almond extract
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour one 9-inch loaf pan (or 3 small ones).
- In a large bowl, cream the butter with sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and mix well.
- Add in the flour and salt. Blend to combine.
- In a separate bowl, mix baking soda with the sour cream; stir well. Mix in the bananas, vanilla and almond extracts, and walnuts with the sour cream and stir well.
- Add the sour cream mixture to the sugar mixture; mix well.
- Pour into prepared pan. It should be 2/3 full. Bake for at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- All to ool for 10 minutes and then turn the loaf out onto a rack and allow to cool completely. Makes 1 loaf.
Recipe is adapted from the Reluctant Entertainer.
