Grandma's Best Ever Banana Bread

5 from 6 votes

Grandma's Best Ever Banana Bread

Grandma's Best Ever Banana Bread is my mother-in-law's famous recipe that's everything you want in a banana bread: moist, tender, delicious and slathered with a luscious cream cheese frosting.

Course Bread

Cuisine American

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 55

Total Time 1 5

Servings servings

Calories 338kcal

Author Lise Sullivan Ode

Ingredients

For the banana bread

½ cup unsalted butter, softened 1 stick
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs room temperature
1 ½ cups all purpose flour or gluten free flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup mashed bananas about 3
½ cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chopped nuts optional

For the frosting

4 ounces cream cheese, softened
¼ cup unsalted butter, softened ½ stick
1 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

For the banana bread

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease 9"x5" loaf pan. Set aside.
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs. Stir to combine.
Whisk flour, baking soda and salt together. Add to butter mixture along with sour cream, bananas, and vanilla. Stir together until completely combined. Fold in nuts.
Note: If you want to make this a gluten free recipe, it works beautifully just by substituting the same amount of gluten free flour instead of the all purpose flour and adding ½ teaspoon xanthan gum. I used my homemade gluten free flour blend recipe from my blog.
Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 50-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean. Let cool.

For the frosting

Mix together cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar and vanilla until smooth and creamy. Frost cooled banana bread. Slice and serve.

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