Whether as a sweet breakfast or for afternoon coffee – banana bread is quick to make and delicious, especially when it’s nice and moist. In order for this to succeed, you should observe the following tips when choosing your ingredients and during preparation.
The best thing you can conjure up from ripe and dark bananas? A delicious and moist banana bread! We are big fans of banana bread, which you can prepare in many different ways depending on the ingredients you choose. But it doesn’t matter whether your banana bread is low-carb , vegan or gluten-free – the main thing is that the banana bread is nice and moist. Unfortunately, this is not always possible and the disappointment is great when the freshly baked bread is too dry and crumbly. However, if you heed these 5 tips, your banana bread will be an all-round success.
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This is how you succeed in making the perfect banana bread
Tip 1: Use enough bananas
The bananas are crucial for a juicy texture. The more bananas you use, the more soggy the batter will be. In order for your banana bread to turn out perfectly, you should use about two to three medium-sized bananas . The riper the bananas, the softer the texture of the fruit and the sweeter your banana bread will taste.
Tip 2: Use fat
If you completely avoid fat in the form of butter, margarine or oil, you save calories, but unfortunately also in juiciness. The banana bread tastes dry and is more crumbly. Our tip: Reduce some of the fat with low-fat quark or applesauce. The following applies: replace the proportion of butter or oil with twice the amount of quark or apple sauce. An example: You can replace 100 grams of butter with 100 grams of applesauce and 50 grams of butter.
Tip 3: Fold in the beaten egg whites
If you are baking banana bread that includes eggs, separate them beforehand, beat the egg whites until stiff and carefully fold them into the batter. The beaten egg white ensures a particularly airy and juicy consistency. Ideally, you should use organic eggs, as they have a firmer consistency, making the whipped cream more stable.
Tip 4: Add berries to the batter
If you have an appetite for a juicy and banana bread, you should definitely add fresh berries such as blueberries , raspberries or currants. In addition, they give the bread a fruity note.
Tip 5: Don’t do without nuts
Hazelnuts, walnuts or pecans, which you can add chopped, ground or whole to the dough, provide a delicious nutty note and the necessary bite. The nuts also provide you with an extra portion of unsaturated fatty acids and healthy minerals such as potassium, sodium and magnesium.
Tip 6: Mix the ingredients together properly
When baking, all wet ingredients such as eggs, milk or butter are always mixed together separately from dry ingredients such as flour , sugar or baking powder. In order for your dough to be fluffy, the butter and eggs should be at room temperature.
Tip 7: Bake banana bread
When you have put the finished dough in the baking tin into the oven, you should bake the bread at 170 to 180 degrees for about 40 to 45 minutes with convection. To prevent the crust of your banana bread from becoming too dark and drying out, you should cover it with aluminum foil about halfway through the baking time. You can use a chopstick test to tell whether the banana bread is done or not. When no more dough sticks to the stick, your banana bread is ready.
This keeps your banana bread fresh for a long time
So that you can enjoy perfectly prepared banana bread for a long time, you should store your banana bread correctly. As this is a very moist cake, ideally you should wrap your Banana Bread in cling film or eco-friendly beeswax wrap and refrigerate. It stays there for about a week. Alternatively, you can also freeze your banana bread – so you can always fall back on fresh and delicious banana bread.
