Simple Banana Bread: An Easy Everyday Loaf
Updated November 2026. This recipe is general cooking information, not professional, medical, or nutrition advice. A quick answer: Banana bread is a soft, sweet loaf made with mashed ripe bananas, flour, sugar, eggs, and oil. Mash the bananas, mix the wet and dry ingredients, pour the batter into a loaf tin, and bake at 180°C for 50–55 minutes. It is one of the easiest bakes there is — a good first recipe, and the best use for bananas that have gone too soft to eat. A soft loaf made from bananas that were too ripe to eat — nothing wasted, and better than the fruit on its own. Why banana bread? Banana bread exists because ripe bananas are too good to waste. A banana with brown spots is too soft to eat on its own, but it is perfect for baking: it is sweeter and softer, and it mashes easily. Mixed into a batter, it makes a loaf that stays moist for days. It needs no special skill and no special equipment — one bowl, one tin, and an oven. What you need Ripe bananas, two eggs, and a lo...