Name: Easiest Banana Bread Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 65 min
Ingredients: 4 cups flour; ½ tsp salt; 2 tsp baking powder; 2 tsp baking soda; 1 cup butter; 2 cup sugar; 4 eggs; 2 tsp vanilla; 2 cup mashed bananas; 1 cup 7-up; ½ cup chopped walnuts

This simple banana bread recipe is the easiest banana bread recipe you will make. It is so easy I can even make it.

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This 5 star banana bread is going to be the easiest and most amazing banana bread that you will ever make. Wherever you make this bread, it will be gone in just a few days. It is perfect and it has a secret ingredient that makes it better than anything you have ever tried.

You know what’s better than banana bread? Banana Bread French Toast.

It’s a great way to use your leftover banana bread, and it tastes amazing! This recipe is super easy and quick, so you can make it any time.

If you love banana bread as much as we do then grab my recipe for Leftover Banana Bread French Toast.

Choose ripe bananas for banana bread

One of my favorite things about this recipe is that you can make it anytime you have overripe bananas. I like to use them when the bananas are overripe and not from the freezer. I think the recipe takes on a much different flavor if you freeze your bananas.

Other banana bread recipes that I have tried have all been too complicated. You need a stand mixer, tons of ingredients and do not have a good banana flavor. But not this one, it is full of flavor.

I wanted to make something that was a comfort food, easy, shaped well in the pan, it’s good as a breakfast food or as a dessert. I was also looking for something that did not require a stand mixer or multiple bowls. The recipe needed to be quick and easy with amazing flavor.

two loaves of banana bread on a white marble background

After trying multiple recipes that I just did not love. I asked my mom and grandma for the recipe that they used when I was a kid. It took some convincing, but I got it!

I have had this recipe now for over 20 years and my kids and husband go crazy when I make it. I have made it for friends after they gave birth, bought a home, Sunday brunch and everything in between.

Normally, I would develop the recipe myself and tweak it until I got it just right. But this one was already great!

Ingredients

4 cups flour
½ tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
1 cup butter
2 cup sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 cup mashed bananas
1 cup 7-up
½ cup chopped walnuts

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How To Make Quick Banana Bread with Walnuts Recipe

Preheat oven to 350 F

Sift together the flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder.

Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl.

Add one egg at a time into the creamed butter and sugar bowl. Beat after each addition of egg

Add vanilla and bananas to the creamed butter and egg bowl

mashed bananas ready to be poured into mixing bowl

Add dry ingredients to the creamed butter bowl. ¼ of the dry bowl at a time

dough in a mixing bowl with flour at the side

Add ¼ of the 7-up and mix

Repeat number 6 and 7 until all ingredients combined

Fold in nuts

Grease two loaf pans. I prefer Crisco (But you can also just line with parchment paper like I did)

Fill each pan evenly

Place in oven for 50 minutes or until done. Fork in the middle comes out clean

EXPERT PRO TIPS

Be sure that you line your bread pans with parchment paper and not wax paper. If you would like to conserve the amount of parchment paper that you use, you can grease the pan and only line the bottom with parchment. Lining the bottom will ensure that the bread holds the shape of the bread pan. If you are not concerned about the shape you can line the entire pan in parchment. I prefer that method as it is a quicker process.