Banana Nut Bread for the Bread Machine

From: MissChiChi

On Jul 1, 2009

This was so wonderful with cream cheese! I only modified slightly--the point of me having a bread machine is for it to be simple, so I didn't beat the eggs or measure/mash the bananas first. My bananas had been frozen, though, so they were already soft when they thawed. I used two, and I think one more would have been perfect. I put in all the wet ingredients (banana too), then all the dry (I added nuts here). I used the "sweet" cycle on my machine (3h40m). I was worried when I peeked a couple times and it looked like soup, but by the end we had an awesome loaf of bread! My bread only came out half as big as I'd hoped, it was square instead of oblong, lol. But it was really dense and had great texture. Maybe I'll double it this time to get that whole loaf. Thanks, Amber!

From: Singin Praises

On Jun 19, 2009

I love this recipe! I have made a few changes to make it lower fat as well as more convenient for me. I don't usually have sour cream, so I just add in an extra banana to make up for it (so somewhere around a cup of mashed bananas). I use brown sugar instead of white, and apple sauce instead of oil. Yum!

From: NancyLeeIL

On Dec 2, 2005

Yum, yum, yum, yum! On my bread machine (William-Sonoma) I used the "quick bread" cycle. I also have to set what size bread (1-2pounds) so I did 1 1/2 lb and it came out fine. I've made this twice, once I had sour cream the other I didn't and used vanilla yogurt and it came out great both times. Figure 2-3 bananas if you don't want to "measure". The only "tweaking" I might try the next time would be to add a smidge of cinnamon (but thats' me). This is one of those STAPLES in your cookbook. Somehow there always seems to be leftover bananas. If you don't have two or three bananas at one time. Mash and freeze in a ziplock what you have and when you get another leftover banana or two, just defrost what's in the freezer and add the ones you now have. Another hint is when you measure the dry ingredients (flour sugar, baking soda, powder) measure an extra "set" and keep in a ziplock labelled "banana bread" and when you get those leftover bananas, just put the wet ingredients in your pan (I add the bananas at the start with the wet), then just grab your little baggie with the already measured ingredients and you'll have "time saved". Thanks again. I love when I know I've found "MY RECIPE" for something and the search is OVER!

From: KITTENCAL

On Jul 29, 2004

This banana loaf was just so wonderful! I am so pleased with the taste and texture that this recipe produced. I made as directed. on my Zojurushi Home Baker bread machine (on the cake cycle of coarse!) only I omitted the chocolate chips, since this was the first time making this recipe, as I wanted to see how this turned out I did however add in the bananas along with all of the other ingredients, I didn't wait the 5 minutes as stated, I used 2 medium-size bananas, and this worked out just fine. Thanks so much for posting, I will make this again in my bread machine...great recipe!...Kittencal