Banana Bread

Recipe courtesy Emeril Lagasse, 2003

Show: The Essence of EmerilEpisode: Quick Breads

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RECIPE
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Cook Time:
1 hr 10 min
Level:
Intermediate
Yield:
1 loaf

Times:

Prep: 20 min
Inactive Prep: 10 min
Cook: 1 hr 10 min
Total:: 1 hr 40 min

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Ingredients

10 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon butter
1 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 2 large bananas)
1/2 cup sour cream
2 large eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups cake flour
3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup toasted, chopped walnuts

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Lightly grease a 9 1/4 by 5 1/4 by 2 1/2-inch loaf pan with 1 teaspoon of the butter.

Puree the bananas, sour cream, eggs and vanilla in a food processor.

Sift the cake flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt into the bowl of an electric mixer fixed with a whisk attachment. Add the remaining 10 tablespoons butter and mix on medium-low speed until blended, about 30 seconds. Add the banana mixture in 3 batches, scraping the sides of the bowl and mixing on medium speed between each addition. Fold in the nuts.

Pour into the loaf pan. Bake until lightly browned and bread bounces back to the touch, about 1 hour 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool for 10 minutes before turning out onto wire rack to cool completely.

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Gem ashburn, VA 02-03-2010
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banana bread
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

the best!! but then again, i wont expect any less from the king of taste!! I'm a forever fan!! miss you in Foodnetwork... TV. please come back. GraceRead more
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null null, null 02-03-2010
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Very good and easy!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This banana bread recipe was great! I have a question...an hour and half seems too long because my bread became dark brown... on top not light brown. Can it be the oven or where I placed my racks? Its still good but the color is way off....Read more
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Sarah Carson City, NV 01-29-2010
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My Favorite Banana Bread!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I'm baking this bread for the second time right now...it's soo yummy! Last time I followed the directions except I used... whole wheat pastry flour and added some dark chocolate. Everyone loved it!! I don't even think it lasted a whole day. Today I made one other variation along with the wwpf I used 1/3 plus 1tbs local honey instead of the sugar and I did not add chocolate this time (to my pregnant tummy the plain bread just sounded better!). It hasn't finished baking, but I'm sure its going to be delicious! Read more
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Jules San Francisco, CA 01-27-2010
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I'm not a baker, but this was fantastic
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

The bread was SO moist! I think the sour cream is a big part of that. I also used three bananas because I had three that... needed to be used, and I think it could even use more than that. I only baked mine for 1 hour, and it was just a tad over done... but the results were fantastic! I just might bake something again some day :) Read more
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Kristen Mason, MI 01-26-2010
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Love This! Replaced Grandma's Recipe in My Box!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I happened to have sour cream in my fridge so I thought I'd venture from my Grandmother's recipe that everyone likes and this... one is even better (sorry, Grandma). The sour cream makes it absolutely delicious! I have limited kitchen accesories so I was not able to sift the dry ingredients or put the bananas in a food processor as he reccomends nor did I have cake flour (just used less flour) and it still turned out perfectly. Next time I'm gonna throw some chocolate chips in at the end. Soooo yummy. Read more
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s rockville, MD 01-26-2010
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Very Yummy!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

First time trying this recipe and a huge success! I made this with my almost 3 1/2 years old son who is interested in... cooking and baking. We don't have either a food processor nor an electric mixer. So my son helped me mixing while I was preparing the mixtures. Although it took us a long time before the actual baking time we had a great time! The recipe was very easy to follow! It was hard for my son to wait over an hour to take the bread out to taste it! The room smelled so good and most importantly the outcome was a blast!! Read more