Dominique Ansel's Banana Bread (Sort Of)
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The best damn banana bread you will ever eat.
Ingredients
  • 1½ cups all purpose flour
  • ½ cup whole wheat flour
  • 2 cups sugar
  • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ¾ teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons wheat germ (optional)
  • 3 eggs at room temperature
  • 4 overripe bananas, mashed
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 7 ounces (1¾ sticks) unsalted butter, melted
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 and grease a loaf pan.
  2. Whisk together flours, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, nutmeg, salt, and wheat germ, if using, in a medium-sized bowl.
  3. Crack the eggs into a small bowl and beat lightly. Add the mashed banana and vanilla extract and stir to combine.
  4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir just until combined. Make sure that all the flour is incorporated but do not overmix.
  5. Add the melted butter to the batter and stir to combine.
  6. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan.
  7. Bake for 70 minutes, rotating halfway through baking.
  8. Cool on a wire rack for several minutes before removing from the pan.
  9. Well-wrapped, banana bread will keep for several days but it will be long gone before then, I promise.
Recipe by West of the Loop at https://www.westoftheloop.com/2015/02/25/dominique-ansels-banana-bread-sort-of/