My Simply Delicious Buttermilk Banana Bread is just that, simple and delicious. Sometimes, it is just the simple pure ingredients that are the best in life.
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Simply Delicious Buttermilk Banana Bread
Buttermilk Banana Bread
This Buttermilk Banana Bread recipe is my favorite of all my Banana Bread recipes. I love the simplicity of it and I love the light and clear color. I’ve been making this Simply Delicious Buttermilk Banana Bread for many years and have no idea where this recipe originates.
It probably was out of a cookbook, where so many and probably most modern day recipes originate. (I still have my little index card box of recipes from 1970 that I filled for years with yummy recipes.)
I tried to find the recipe online and found almost the exact recipe at Mel’s Kitchen Café. Mel says she got her recipe from her Aunt. So, where did her Aunt get this recipe? I’m giving credit to Mel for this recipe since she got it online first. 🙂 Thank you, Mel!
Cast of Ingredients for Simply Delicious Buttermilk Banana Bread
I used both white and brown sugar in these photos for this bread. If you want a whiter Banana Bread, try using all white sugar.
For a milder sweet and equally delicious taste, I sometimes use Demerara Sugar in place of the white/brown sugar. I’ve switched to Demerara Sugar for most recipes that call for White Sugar. We use Demerara Sugar in our Cuban Coffee every morning.
Not only is this Simply Delicious Buttermilk Banana Bread wonderful baked in the oven, it is equally as delicious “baked” in the Pressure Cooker. Measurements and Directions for baking in the Pressure Cooker are down below, after the Oven method.
Make Your Own Buttermilk Substitution
If you don’t have Buttermilk on hand, don’t worry, don’t panic. You can make your own Buttermilk using this Make Your Own Buttermilk Substitution recipe.
Besides Cast Iron stovetop cooking, I love baking and cooking using my Cast Iron too. I’m pretty exclusive with the stuff.
Combine your sugar and butter
Take your butter out of the refrigerator about 30 minutes before you are ready to start mixing up the ingredients. Don’t melt the butter, room temperature is good. Add the sugar and butter to a Medium Mixing Bowl.
Beat the Sugar and Butter Together
Using an Electric Hand Mixer, beat the sugar and butter until it is nice and smooth.
Add in the rest of the wet ingredients
Add in the eggs, Homemade Buttermilk and vanilla. Break up the bananas, so that you can beat them in at the same time you beat the wet ingredients.
Beat until well combined
Start out on low speed and graduate to high speed and incorporate all the wet ingredients together. The batter should be nice and smooth.
Don’t Scoop from the Container or Bag of Flour
I don’t want you to end up with a rubbery or a brick Simply Delicious Banana Bread and then blame the recipe.
Proper measurement of Flour is essential!
Fold in the Flour by hand
Add in the dry ingredients and fold them into the batter a bit, so that the flour doesn’t fly out of the bowl.
Beat with Mixer until Smooth
Using your Electric Hand Mixer, beat in the flour until fully incorporated.
Grease and Flour Loaf Pan
Using Homemade Ghee or Coconut Oil, grease and lightly flour your Loaf Pan. I made a mess of this one for some reason. Your Loaf Pan should not look this messy. Hehehe, Oy!
Pour Batter into Loaf Pans
Please note: Because I made half the recipe in the oven and half the recipe in the Pressure Cooker, the above photo is of half the batter. This is why the bread pictured above is short and not the full tall size. I decided to do this AFTER I poured the batter into this Loaf Pan, so that is why it is also messy. 🙂
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The Bundt Pans come in two colors and it is the luck of the draw as to which color you get. I was lucky to have gotten both colors!
I have provided this link to Amazon, so you can get your own.
The Banana Bread seems to cook more evenly and puffs up lighter and fluffier.
Photo courtesy of Jean Butcher Morrow
Here is a gorgeous Pressure Cooker Simply Delicious Banana Bread from one of my group members, Jean Butcher Morrow. Jean used a cute little Bundt Pan for this recipe. Directions for the Pressure Cooker are in the Recipe Card at the bottom of this page. 🙂
Perfectly Baked Simply Delicious Buttermilk Banana Bread
Pop in the oven and bake until done. If you have a cake tester, it should come out clean after inserting it into the middle of the Simply Delicious Buttermilk Banana Bread.
Light and Fluffy Banana Bread
Yummy! This Banana Bread is very light and fluffy. If you want a denser Banana Bread, try my very popular Grandma Mill’s Banana Nut Bread recipe, which you can cook in your Pressure Cooker. It gets rave reviews!
Buttermilk Banana BreadAllow the Banana Bread to cool before slicing. Enjoy.
Kitchen Equipment and Essentials
- Instant Pot DUO 6 Quart
- Amco Advanced Performance 18/10 Stainless Steel Measuring Spoons
- Simply Gourmet (Dry) Stainless Steel Measuring Cups
- Anchor Hocking Glass (Liquid) Measuring Cups
- Rösle Stainless Steel Flat Whisk – a MUST have, probably my most used utensil
- Cilio Olivewood Spatula
- Porcelain & Bamboo Salt Box with Spoon
- Baker’s Math Digital Scale
- Bellemain Porcelain Ramekins
- Lock N Lock Small Container
- Lock N Lock Storage Container
- Cuisinart Electric Hand Mixer
- 3.5 Quart Stainless Steel Mixing Bowl
- Lodge Loaf Pan
- Nordic Ware Bundt Pan
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Here is the handy printable recipe:
Ingredients
Oven Version
- 1/2 cup Butter room temperature
- 1 cup Demerara Sugar or White Sugar
- 1/4 cup Light Brown Sugar packed or 1/4 cup Demerara Sugar or White Sugar
- 2 large Eggs
- 3 large Bananas nicely ripe and cut into chunks
- 1/4 cup Buttermilk or use my Make Your Own Buttermilk recipe
- 1/2 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
- 1 3/4 cups All Purpose Flour properly measured
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1/8 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/4 teaspoon Sea Salt
- 1 Large or 2 smaller Loaf Pans
Pressure Cooker Version
- 1/2 cup Butter room temperature
- 1 cup Demerara Sugar or White Sugar
- 1/4 cup Light Brown Sugar packed or 1/4 cup Demerara Sugar or White Sugar
- 2 Eggs + 1 Egg White
- 3 large Bananas nicely ripe and cut into chunks
- 1/4 cup Buttermilk or use my Make Your Own Buttermilk recipe
- 1/2 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
- 1 3/4 cups All Purpose Flour properly measured
- 1.5 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1/8 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/4 teaspoon Sea Salt
- 6 cup Bundt Pan
Instructions
- Add sugar and butter to a large bowl and beat until well combined.
- Add eggs, bananas, buttermilk, and vanilla and beat until smooth.
- To the wet batter, add in flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix until completely combine.
- Grease and lightly flour your Loaf Pan(s).
- Pour in batter and jiggle the pan to even out the batter.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean.
Pressure Cooker
- Add 1.5 cups of water into Pressure Cooker cooking pot and place a trivet.
- Grease and lightly flour a 6 cup Bundt Pan and pour batter into the pan.
- Cover with a paper towel and foil and poke steam holes for steam to release.
- Cook at High Pressure for 55 minutes, with a Natural Pressure Release.
Notes
PIN this Simply Delicious Buttermilk Banana Bread!
Instant Pot Banana Bread
OMG, I made this buttermilk banana bread for my husband and we ate the WHOLE LOAF in one evening. Moist, flavorful and absolutely the most delicious banana bread either of us have EVER had. THANK YOU THANK YOU!
Hi Jennifer. I am so thrilled you enjoyed the bread. It is addictive and I understand eating the whole loaf at once. 🙂 Jill
Can you add chopped pecans?
If I substitute coconut sugar will I use the same amount as the white and brown sugars? Can I substitute the coconut sugar for just the white and still use brown sugar in it too?
I have this recipe in the Instant Pot now so I haven’t seen the result. The only confusing thing about the recipe is it reads to cream butter and SUGAR not SUGARS, so I wasn’t really sure about when to add the brown sugar.
If you make Greek yogurt and are drowning in whey it’s a great substitute for the buttermilk in this recipe.
When making your own buttermilk from whey, do you mix lemon juice or cream of tartar with the whey ?
This looks great! I have never made banana bread before, so this may have to be my first!
Is there any benefit to using the pressure cooker for this? Have you made it in the air fryer?
Hi Mark~
My personal preference is in the oven or the air fryer. I love the edges that you can only get using dry heat.
Jill
I just made this in the pressure cooker and it’s delicious, but the texture is definitely different than normal banana bread… it’s almost more like a bread pudding, but like Jill mentioned – no crusty edges. Not turning on my oven though is worth it!