Nutella Banana Bread with a Steady Rise
Prep 20 minutes · Cook 50 minutes · Total 1 hour · Yield 12 people
Nutella Banana Bread with a Steady Rise is filed under Quick breads and built around all-purpose flour spooned and leveled, baking soda, and kosher salt. Plan on 12 people.
Count on 20 minutes of prep, 50 minutes of cooking, about 1 hour from the first measurement to the plate.
What goes in the bowl
- 2 cups all-purpose flour spooned and leveled
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 medium ripe bananas brown spots but not black
- 2 large eggs
- 7 tablespoons buttermilk
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup unsalted butter room temperature
- ½ cup Nutella or chocolate hazelnut spread be sure to mix up the jar
How the cooking goes
- Warm the oven to 375°. Butter a 9x5x3 inch loaf pan (mine was longer and skinnier with the same volume, so that works too!) and then pour a little sugar into the bottom of the pan, tap the sugar around until it creates an even sugar layer. Tap out any excess.
- In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Keep it to one side.
- Put bananas, eggs and buttermilk into a blender and blend until the texture looks smooth. [you used an immersion blender for this task because you hate the blender.] Keep it to one side.
- Cream butter and sugar together in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
- Tip half the banana mixture and half the flour mixture into the butter mixture, and mix with a hand mixer just until the texture looks smooth. Repeat with the remaining banana and flour mixture. Pour into prepared pan.
- Set dollops of Nutella on top of the batter. You used 5. Using a bamboo skewer or knife, gently poke the Nutella and spread in swirls on top of the batter.
- Bake in preheated oven 50-60 minutes or until a cake tester comes out with a few clinging crumbs attached.
- Cool completely before removing from loaf pan.
After it comes off the heat
Wait until the loaf is cool before slicing. Wrap it at room temperature, and freeze slices you will not eat in a couple of days.
If you want another plate from Quick breads, open Traditional Irish Soda Bread with Raisins with a Steady Rise and Banana Crumb Bread with a Steady Rise.
