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By Deborah Juarez

Chrissy's Ultimate Banana Bread

Name: Chrissy's Ultimate Banana Bread
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 cups mashed very ripe bananas; 4 eggs; 2/3 cup canola oil (or melted butter), plus a little more to grease the pan; 2 cups all-purpose flour, plus a little more for dusting the pan; 2 cups sugar (or half brown sugar, half white sugar); 1 (3.5-ounce) box vanilla instant pudding mix; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1.5 teaspoons kosher salt; 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut; (3.5-ounce) bar dark chocolate, chopped into chunks (or anything you love—peanut butter chips, nuts, etc.); Salted butter, for serving

5 steps

Prep:15minCook:1h

*Get six brown bananas. Not four. Not five. Six. You will think you only need five because it looks like enough, but it will not be enough. You will get five, you will mash them, you will be about half an inch short and that makes a difference and you cannot get around it. Trust me. **I won’t tell you what brand to use, but the right brand rhymes with smello. Don’t use banana-flavored pudding mix. I tried it. It is gross. To substitute the pudding mix, you can also try equal parts powdered milk and half powdered sugar with a teaspoon of vanilla extract.

Updated at: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:09:05 GMT

Nutrition balance score

Unbalanced

Glycemic Index

Moderate

Glycemic Load

High

Nutrition per serving

Calories500.6 kcal (25%)

Total Fat23.7 g (34%)

Carbs69.7 g (27%)

Sugars47.8 g (53%)

Protein5.4 g (11%)

Sodium444.3 mg (22%)

Fiber3.2 g (11%)

% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Ingredients

12 servings

2 cupsbananas

mashed, very ripe

4eggs

⅔ cupcanola oil

or melted butter, plus a little more to grease the pan

2 cupsall-purpose flour

plus a little more for dusting the pan

2 cupssugar

or half brown sugar, half white sugar

1 x 3.5 ouncevanilla instant pudding mix

box

1 teaspoonbaking soda

1 ½ teaspoonskosher salt

1 cupunsweetened shredded coconut

3.5 ouncedark chocolate

chopped into chunks, or anything you love—peanut butter chips, nuts, etc

Salted butter

for serving

Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 325°F.

OvenPreheat

Step 2

In a large bowl, combine the mashed bananas, eggs, and oil. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, sugar, pudding mix, baking soda, and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and combine well BUT GENTLY. I swear this came out differently when I used an aggressive electric mixer. Fold in the coconut and chocolate chunks.

Step 3

Grease and flour a Bundt pan (that means wipe a little grease all over the inside of the pan, dust it with flour, and tip it upside down to shake out any extra flour). Pour the batter into the pan. (This can also make two 8 × 4-inch loaves, but it’s so much more moist in one Bundt pan!)

Step 4

Bake until the cake springs back when lightly pressed and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 55–60 minutes. (Test it with a toothpick at around 50 minutes.) Let it cool slightly in the pan, then use a butter knife to gently release the cake from the sides of the pan and around the inner circle, then flip it onto a plate.

Step 5

Let it cool, and cut it into slices. Rewarm them and serve them with salty butter!!!