One-Handed Banana Bread

Name: One-Handed Banana Bread
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 8 slices
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 piece very ripe bananas black-spotted, the riper the better; 0.33 cup unsalted butter melted and cooled; 0.75 cup granulated sugar; 1 piece large egg beaten; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 0.25 teaspoon salt; 1.5 cup all-purpose flour

CN by Chef Nica 4.9 (412) 65 min total

The short version

One-handed banana bread is designed for new parents cooking with a baby on their hip. Everything mixes in one bowl, no stand mixer needed, and the loaf bakes unattended for 55 minutes. You need 10 minutes of active hands-on time, and the rest is oven time.

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10m
Prep: 55m
Cook: 8
Servings: Easy
Level

B One-Handed Banana Bread

Ingredients

Batch

3very ripe bananasblack-spotted, the riper the better
⅓ cupunsalted buttermelted and cooled
¾ cupgranulated sugar
1large eggbeaten
1 teaspoonvanilla extract
1 teaspoonbaking soda
¼ teaspoonsalt
1½ cupall-purpose flour

Method

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Preheat
Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Butter and flour a 9×5-inch loaf pan.
Mash bananas
In a large bowl, mash bananas with a fork until mostly smooth — some lumps are fine and add texture.
Mix wet
Stir in melted butter, sugar, egg and vanilla with a fork.
Add dry
Sprinkle baking soda and salt over the batter, stir. Add flour all at once and fold just until no dry flour is visible — do not overmix.
Bake
Pour into the loaf pan. Bake 55–65 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in the pan, then turn out.

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Tips

Freeze ripe bananas in their skins — thaw in a bowl, the liquid is flavour.
Make a double batch when you have help — the second loaf freezes for 3 months.

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