How do you get really moist banana bread?

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Ideas on how to get really moist banana bread, I used this recipe yesterday and it turmed our ok but not as moist as I'd have liked. Bananas werent really mushy/ripe wonder if it was that???

My recipe is:
140g unsalted butter
140g SR flour
70g sugar (says 140g but too sweet)
2 ripe bananas
2 eggs
1tsp baking powder
100g choc chips

Find a recipe that uses oil instead of butter

Really disgustingly overripe bananas

Dont have oil

I just made some last night . And it called for oil. I used 4 very ripe bananas . It is really nice today if I do say so myself . Plus I added smashed up walnuts.

I agree with the oil, it’s the only way to get it lovely snd moist.

Not everyone's taste but tea soaked raisins.... Real moist-makers 🤣

Another tip of your bananas are not fully ripe is to freeze them first

I always make 2 and use 5 bananas. Really helps

Why freeze them???

Bananas Ive got today to do another go, arent mushy over ripe. Wonder if putting them out in the sun todsy will help

I don't know the science.... actually I might have been confused and you can ripen quickly in a warm oven!

Ignore me I have a lot of brain fog.

I made an almost identical recipe the other day and it was extremely moist. I did add a few tablespoons of buttermilk which wasn't in the recipe (made my own with milk and lemon juice), so you could try that or some natural yoghurt. Also make sure it's not overcooked.

I would say your bananas aren't ripe enough yet though.

Those bananas are nowhere near ripe enough.

Agree re oil, butter doesn't give the correct moistness. Bananas have to be soft and have brown marks on the outer skin. I also add a teaspoon of vanilla essence.

This is a fail safe recipe! I add a generous sprinkling of brown sugar to the top before I put it in the oven, and I don’t mush up the bananas too much (leave them lumpy).

Leave them until they're seriously soft, properly spotted on the outside. You need the sugars in the banana to be properly developed. Also don't mash them too much.

I use Mary Berry's loaf recipe.

Edited to say I think that's it pictured above!

The sugar will also help with moistness to some extent I think, as it will melt and the melting will create the smooth texture that feels like moistness on the tongue. So cutting the sugar down is likely to be negatively effecting the texture.

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/banana-bread

This one is decent.

I'd also definitely say your bananas need tonbenriper.n

Yes, very ripe bananas. I use butter in whichever recipe I use (I think its v similar to yours) but brown sugar as well to add to the flavour and the dampness.

Also to add, I follow the recipe above but I take the sugar down just a bit - I use 125-150g of sugar depending on how big the bananas are. Pp is right that if you take down the sugar content too much it will affect the moistness.

If the bananas are on the small side I use three.

I use this recipe. I use 3 over ripe bananas. Its always very moist.

Chocolate chip banana bread recipe | Good Food

I'm the opposite op, I like really light and fluffy banana cake. I made one once, and lost the recipe!!
I find moist and dense banana bread easier to achieve with oil, and very ripe bananas! I think I once had a recipe that has greek yoghurt in, which worked too! Sorry I'm no help.

You can keep them in a freezer. Once they are at the stage where if they don't go in a cake they will be binned, stick them in the freezer. Just take them out, let them defrost and use in cake.

I wait until banana skin is turning brown. Then use the MN recipe!

The Aussies sell banana bread in every café and it's perfection.

If you search for the Women's Weekly (AU) you'll find an excellent recipe that's widely considered as one of the best.

The main difference is see is that most European recipes require 1 or 2 bananas and this has a whopping 400g.

It's delicious

Freezing will make them mushier. Water expands when it freezes. The water in the banana turns to ice and bursts the cell walls, releasing the moisture and making the texture mushier. Think of balloons filled with water and what would happen if they popped.