You read the title right. Sour. Cream. Banana. Bread.
To die!
Confession: I’m not a banana lover. If you see me eating one; I’m desperate or under duress. I pretty much only eat them during training season for long runs, and only if they’re a bit on the green side and not covered with spots. I have serious issues with those spots. TOO SOFT!
But, mash them, mix them with sugar, flour and sour cream to make banana bread and I’ll pretty much wrestle you for the last slice.
I’ve made so many different kinds of banana bread throughout my baking career. High calorie recipes, low calorie recipes, using oil, using applesauce, with nuts, omit nuts, but until I made Sour Cream Banana Bread, I had truly never had banana bread.
Anyone else hear angels singing?
On first bite I was a blinded convert; I was a holy rolling, sour cream thumpin’, trying to get you to see the error of your bland banana bread makin’ ways, convert.
Today, I continue my mission. Today, I offer the recipe to bring you to new life, baby.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter - room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 cup mashed, very ripe, bananas
- 1/2 cup full-fat sour cream
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat over to 350°.
- Cream butter and sugar until well combined.(1)
- Add vanilla. Blend well.
- Add eggs, one at a time, combining well after each.
- Sift dry ingredients and combine with butter mixture, adding 1/2 cup at a time until mixed thoroughly. (2)
- Add bananas and sour cream. Stir well. (3)
- Stir in nuts.
- Pour into generously buttered 9x5x3 loaf pan. (4)
- Bake 1 hour.
- Test for doneness by inserting toothpick into the middle of pan. If it comes out clean, the bread is done! If not, bake a few minutes more and check again. (5)
- Turn out on rack to cool.
Notes
For New Bakers
(1) I typically cream the butter first and once it is light and fluffy, I add the sugar in 1/4 increments, so the sugar and butter combine with a less grainy texture.
(2) If you don't own a sifter, you can substitute whisking the flour mixture. Pour the measured amount into a bowl and whisk until light. The point is to incorporate air for a lighter cake.
(3) This recipe calls for 1 cup of mashed bananas, but I have been known to add 1 1/2 cups. I hate to not use all my ripe bananas. It's just sad for that one lone survivor.
(4) I have used smaller loaf pans and the texture is fine. If using smaller pans, adjust the time down by 10 or so minutes and then check doneness before taking them out of oven.
(5) The bread is done when it's done and you bake it until it's done. Just because a recipe calls for 30 minutes doesn't necessarily mean yours will be done in that amount of time. Use the time given as a guideline, not a given.
Nope, this is not a light recipe. Yes, it’s the best you’ll probably ever make.
We try to eat as healthily as we can for the majority of the time, so Sour Cream Banana Bread gets made only once or twice a year when we’re either having guests or, Boy, Girl and Sweet E are visiting. That way we can enjoy the decadence without over-indulging.
See? Winning all the way around!
I got your back, my babies.
Now get to baking.
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Okay wow. That looks amazing!
Even my BIL who SWEARS he won’t eat ANYTHING with sour cream, loves this bread.
Looks yummy!!
I can vouch for its yumminess.
Oh wow! That banana bread looks amazing. Perfect for a post long-run snack, too! I’ll have to see if I can make this.
YES! Perfect for that. I would also chase with chocolate milk, but that’s just me. 😉
Yum! I love a good banana bread! Great photos!
Thanks, Diana.
That looks great! Great photos of it, too!!!
Thanks on both counts, Chrissy.
I am with you w not being a banana lover.. I normally buy them to watch them turn black so I can bake a very unhealthy bread 😉
Ha! Banana haters unite!
this looks delicious! yummy 🙂
Get to bakin’, momma!
love bread for breakfast, snack or even dessert this sounds amazing
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Thanks, Angie.
Yum!! I love banana bread…this looks delicious to me!
Once made, I can’t keep it in the house (I always make more than one loaf). So delicious.