Light Buttermilk Banana Bread

This is a basic recipe of a banana bread; a Light Buttermilk Banana Bread and it does not disappoint. Everybody needs a good recipe of a banana bread; full of flavor, moist and not too dense are required qualifications. This recipe ticks all these boxes.

Key Ingredients in This Recipe

You’ll find the complete list of ingredients and exact quantities in the recipe below.

• Butter
• Sugar
• Eggs
• Bananas – make sure they are ripe. Don’t use bananas with a nice clean yellow peel, use the ones you would consider ‘over the top’. The ones that are brown. They have the flavor and they mash easily. Fresh bananas can sometimes stay a little clumpy.
• Vanilla extract
• All-purpose flour
• Baking powder
• Baking soda
• Buttermilk

Basic ingredients for a banana bread, except may be for the buttermilk. Many recipes call for normal milk. Buttermilk adds air to the dough as well as flavor, something normal milk cannot give.

How to Make Light Buttermilk Banana Bread

• Step 1 – Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. and grease a 9×5-inch cake pan with cooking spray or line a cake pan with parchment paper.
• Step 2 – Cream butter and sugar in a bowl until light. Don’t skip this step; it will bring air into the batter and will make the banana bread light. Add eggs, mashed bananas and vanilla extract.
• Step 3 – In another bowl, mix flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
• Step 4 – Now add the banana mix and the buttermilk to the dry mix, alternating. Mix until just combined.

• Step 6– Place the cake pan on a rack and cool the banana bread in the pan. After about 20 minutes remove the bread from the pan and cool completely on a wire rack.

Other Banana Breads to Try

• Cinnamon Sugar Banana Bread

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