Grammy's Kitchen · Banana Bread · Homemade Banana Bread
One of 35 banana bread recipes we measured
from www.budgetbytes.com
19 cooks on www.budgetbytes.com rate it 4.6★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 35.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 46% | 47% |
| total sugar | 86% | 77% |
| brown sugar share of total sugar | 52% | 0% |
| egg | 42% | 45% |
| leavener | 2% | 2% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| fruit | 141% | 169% |
| mix-ins | 24% | 25% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 57 g | 4 Tbsp salted butter, room-temperature* ($0.50) |
| 54 g | 1/4 cup cooking oil* ($0.16) |
| 100 g | 1/2 cup granulated sugar** ($0.48) |
| 106 g | 1/2 cup brown sugar** ($0.24) |
| 338 g | 1.5 cups mashed ripe bananas (about 3-4 bananas)*** ($0.78) |
| 100 g | 2 large eggs ($1.34) |
| 4 g | 1 tsp vanilla extract ($0.65) |
| 240 g | 2 cups all-purpose flour* ($0.36) |
| 5 g | 1 tsp baking soda ($0.01) |
| 3 g | 1/2 tsp salt ($0.02) |
| 1 g | 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg ($0.02) |
| 1 g | 1/4 tsp cinnamon ($0.02) |
| 58 g | 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional) ($1.68) |
Method: 10 steps, published by www.budgetbytes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I’ve made your yogurt banana bread before and that was my plan for this week until I saw I only had coffee yogurt in the fridge. Ew. So - I found your classic recipe and went with it. I was a bit skeptical as it seemed almost TOO basic. But it is a WINNER!” — a cook, 5.0★
“I made this banana bread today and it turned out perfectly! I misread the measurement for sugar so I used 1/3 cup of each (rather than 1/2 cup) and added a 1/2 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips but it was still great! Perfect with a glass of cold milk or a hot” — a cook, 4.0★