Easy Banana Bread

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Serves 8

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Ingredients

• 120 g butter (soft, for greasing; or nonstick spray; unsalted, melted and slightly cooled; Butter)
• 2 egg (large; Eier)
• 4 banana (very ripe, mashed, about 400 g; Bananen)
• 165 g brown sugar (packed; brauner Zucker)
• 5 ml vanilla extract (Vanilleextrakt)
• 60 g Schmand (or sour cream)
• 256 g flour (Weizenmehl Type 405)
• 5 g baking soda (Natron)
• 1 g salt (Salz)
• 1 g cinnamon (Zimt)
• 115 g walnuts (chopped; Walnüsse)

Steps

1. Preheat the oven to 175 °C (Ober-/Unterhitze; 160 °C fan). Grease a loaf pan with butter (5 g) and line the bottom with parchment paper.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together egg (2), banana (4), butter (115 g), brown sugar (165 g), and vanilla extract (5 ml) until smooth. A few lumps of banana are fine. Stir in Schmand (60 g).
3. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour (256 g), baking soda (5 g), salt (1 g), and cinnamon (1 g).
4. Tip the dry ingredients into the wet ones and stir just until no dry flour remains, scraping the bottom of the bowl. Fold in walnuts (115 g).
5. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top with a spatula. Bake ⏲ 55–65 minutes, until a toothpick pushed into the centre comes out clean.
6. Let cool in the pan for ⏲ 20 minutes. Run a paring knife around the edges, lift the loaf out onto a wire rack, and let it finish cooling. Peel off the parchment before slicing.