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Amy Grant’s Banana Bread

One special ingredient makes this banana bread better than the rest.

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Amy Grant’s Banana Bread

There is nothing like having a slice of warm banana bread fresh out the oven, smothered in lashings of butter or cream cheese and with a cup of tea or coffee to go with it. It’s perfect for breakfast, but also is a really wonderful snack throughout the day. Heck there’s nothing stopping you from having banana bread as an after dinner dessert, either!

Amy Grant’s Banana Bread

The magic of banana bread is not only the simplicity of the process, but also how moist and flavorful the bananas make the bread. Recipes differ on exactly how any bananas to add to the batter, but despite that we’ve never had a banana bread we didn’t like.

Amy Grant’s Banana Bread

According to Southern Living the recipe that singer and 6-time Grammy-winner, Amy Grant, uses (handed down from her grandma) is made extra special from the addition of toasted walnuts. You can toast walnuts at home very quickly by cooking them them in an un-greased pan over medium heat for about 3 minutes (stirring often) or just until they’ve turned one shade darker than what you started with.

Many recipes call for adding in raw nuts to the recipe, but toasting them beforehand just really deepens the flavor and adds more richness to the finished result. Once the walnuts have cooled off chop them up and add them to the rest of the batter.

Amy Grant’s Banana Bread

To make the batter first cream together the butter and sugar, then add in the eggs one at a time. Combine your dry ingredients in a separate bowl. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet, the fold in sliced (not mashed) bananas and the walnuts you toasted earlier.

making Amy Grant’s Banana Bread

Bake in a 9″x5″ loaf pan in a 350˚F oven for 1 hour or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.

making Amy Grant’s Banana Bread

This excellent banana bread recipe makes some of the best banana bread I’ve ever tried. If you are a fan of this bananas or walnuts then you have to try Amy Grant’s banana bread.

Makes 9 slices of bread

15m prep time

1h cook time

4.7
Rated 4.7 out of 5
Rated by 25 reviewers

Allergens: Gluten

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Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 4 bananas, sliced
  • 1/2 cup toasted pecans, chopped
Preparation
  1. Preheat oven to 350˚F. Grease a 9”x5” loaf pan.
  2. In a large bowl cream together butter and sugar using an electric mixer. Add eggs one at a time, mixing after each one.
  3. In a separate bowl combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Gradually add dry ingredients to wet ingredients. Stir in bananas and pecans.
  4. Pour batter into loaf pan and bake on center rack for 60 minutes or until knife inserted in the center comes out clean.

Recipe adapted from Southern Living.