I love an easy dump-and-go recipe and this Super Easy Bread Machine Banana Bread is just that. Just toss your ingredients in, press the button, and walk away.
The bread machine does all the work for you and in a matter of a few short hours, your home is filled with gorgeous bread baking! Try our Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins too for more banana lover recipes.
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So you are looking at three overripe bananas on the counter. Grab them, and mash them up. Then add a few other simple ingredients that you probably already have in the pantry and fridge. Within minutes, you have a loaf of bread started in the bread machine.
Nuts can be optional in this recipe, but I love them; either chopped walnuts or pecans will work.
Ingredients
Milk
Eggs
Butter
Vanilla extract
Ripe or frozen and thawed bananas
Sour cream
Sugar
All purpose flour
Salt
Baking powder
Baking soda
Pecans
How To Make Banana Bread in a Bread Machine
Once the bananas are mashed, beat up a few eggs. Then pour the ingredients into the bread pan in the sequence listed, leaving the dry ingredients to the last.
Put your machine on the quick bread setting and medium crust setting and start the machine.
In a few short hours, you have a gorgeous loaf like this coming out of your bread machine. Remove the pan from the bread machine and let the loaf rest for 10 minutes and then remove the loaf from the pan to a rack to fully cool. Nothing can be easier.
Can You Use All-purpose Flour in a Bread Machine Instead of Bread Flour?
You can absolutely use all-purpose flour instead of bread machine flour and that is what I usually use.
Our banana bread recipe was adapted from a traditional loaf recipe to one that will work well in the bread machine. I didn’t want you to have to buy different ingredients for that.
Why is My Bread so Dense in My Bread Machine?
I don’t have that problem of the bread being too dense with using this recipe. One of culprits can be not putting the ingredients in order or it maybe that you have too much moisture.
Try this recipe and it should remedy that situation of your bread being too dense.
How do You Know if Banana Bread is Undercooked or Cooked?
The traditional way of doing it is with a cake tester or the touch method to see if it springs back but that is pretty hard in a bread machine.
One way you can tell is if the top still looks underdone. To fix that just leave the bread in the machine with the heat that is already there for an additional 10 to 15 minutes. This should finish the baking process for you.
Bread may have differing results if your bread pan is an upright or horizontal pan. Experimentation is your best bet, too, but this loaf has been tried in both.
Kids love having a fresh slice of banana bread from the oven. Make it easier on yourself and bake them a loaf in the bread machine.
Freshly sliced and waiting for you!! Grab your bread machine and make a loaf today. Or try our other lovely Bread Machine Pumpkin Pie Spice Loaf that has been a real hit for fall!
Do you like it with a slather of butter or all on its own? You can choose! Enjoy!!
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Super Easy Bread Machine Banana Bread
This Super Easy Bread Machine Banana Bread is a simple recipe to pull together in a matter of minutes. The bread machine does the rest! In a matter of under two hours, your home will be filled with the wonderful aroma of bread baking and you will have a lovely banana bread to share.
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup milk
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 3 medium-sized bananas very ripe (or frozen and thawed), mashed
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 cup pecans, chopped
Instructions
- Pour the ingredients into the bread pan in the sequence listed. Put the machine on the quick bread setting and medium crust setting and start the machine.
- If the top of the bread still doesn't look done leave the bread in the bread machine while it is still warm for 10 minutes or until baked.
- Let the pan cool for 10 minutes and remove the loaf with oven mitts as it will still be hot. Don't forget to remove the mixing paddle also from the bottom of the loaf.
- Let the bread cool completely on a wire cooling rack. Slice and serve.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 10 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving:Calories: 349Total Fat: 16gSaturated Fat: 7gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 66mgSodium: 410mgCarbohydrates: 49gFiber: 2gSugar: 25gProtein: 5g
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Comments & Reviews
Mama to 6 Blessings says
I make a lot of homemade banana bread in our home because I hate throwing away over ripe bananas. I have never made it in a bread machine though, definitely sounds much easier. I like the dump and go method!
TARA PITTMAN says
What a great idea for the bread machine. I will have to make this recipe
Jen Miyagishima says
I love banana bread! I’d love to modify this recipe & make it one day. My daughter is allergic to nuts, so I’d make it without the pecans.
Tara Noland says
That is easy to do and just omit them, enjoy!
Monica Simpson says
I really want to add pecans to banana bread next time I make it. I normally think of walnuts first but I prefer pecans. Your bread looks beautiful and tasty!
Lisa Joy Thompson says
Banana bread is one of my all-time favorite treats! I can’t wait to try your recipe! I keep saying I need to make some banana bread, but my kids have been eating all our bananas and we haven’t had any get overly ripe!
Faith says
I put bananas in the freezer especially when I want them to ripen quickly. Freeze overnight thaw the next day and they are ready and mushy.
Tara Noland says
Great idea, thanks for sharing!
Natalie says
This banana bread looks delicious. Texture is so amazing and I bet it taste yummy. I will definitely give this a try. I have bread machine but I never used it for making sweet breads like this one. Great idea!
Karen says
May I ask you what size loaf this is or will that be needed on the Quick Bread Setting?
Really does look amazing can’t wait to try it this weekend.
Tara Noland says
I don’t believe my bread machine asks that on the quick bread setting but I would say 1.5 lb. would work great.
Heidi says
2 or 3 cups of flour is a 1.5 pound loaf of bread I’m just making it now and I will let you know how it comes out
Keith says
Wow Great Recipe…Awesome!!
Tara Noland says
So glad you liked it!! Happy Holidays!!
DJ says
Can you swap out regular sugar for honey in this recipe?
Tara Noland says
I am sorry but I have not tried that so I can’t tell you if it would work on not.
Georgette says
Yes I have done it is fine
Yes you can l have done it no problems
Jen says
This is my go to banana bread recipe. Didn’t have nuts to add but I did add a little bit of cinnamon. It had great consistency and wasn’t super dense. I make a pumpkin bread in the bread machine that’s delicious but it’s like a soft brick! If that makes sense. Thanks for the recipe!
Tara Noland says
So glad you liked it, banana bread and pumpkin are our favorites. Here is our pumpkin bread if you would like to try it. https://noshingwiththenolands.com/bread-machine-pumpkin-pie-spice-loaf/
Erika says
I followed this recipe EXACTLY but my bread turned out a total mess😥 the sides had tall dark crusts then a sunken ring and a rounded underdone center almost like 2 different loaves. What happened? What did I do wrong?
Tara Noland says
Hmmm, doesn’t sound good. Could your baking soda or baking powder be old? Are you sure you added the exact amounts. Have you made a quick bread in your machine before? Were your setting correct?
Becky says
Mine did the same, but it wasn’t the ingredients it’s the older model bread machine I have. The quick/express bread and sweet bread settings are for breads that contain yeast. Trying to find a conversion factor to yeast but so far no luck
Lillie says
My machine doesn’t have a quick bread setting so I looked in my book and it said to use the cake setting…making it now! I hope it turns out🤔
Sandi says
We have 10 minutes to wait to taste this bread…our home smells amazing from the bread baking…wow…my mouth is watering!!!…thanks for the recipe!
Sandi says
OMGosh!!!!…this bread is amazing!!!…it tastes to goooood!!!…if you like banana nut bread, this will become the go to recipe for it…I will be making it often!
Tara Noland says
So glad you liked it Sandi! We love how easy it is too!! Happy banana bread baking!!
Gen says
can I use plain greek yogurt 0% instead of sour cream?
Tara Noland says
I haven’t tried it but I would say yes.
Danielle says
My older bread machine doesn’t have the quick bread setting. So it keeps coming out kind of raw in the middle even after staying in the machine longer. I’ve had to finish it off in the oven twice now on two separate setting. Still turned out fine though. Do you have an oven version of this same recipe? Mostly, I just need to know what temperature to bake it at and I’ll just mix it all up and make it in the oven. This is the best recipe I’ve ever tasted, thank you so much.
Tara Noland says
I am sorry that is happening to you Danielle. You can bake it in the oven at 350F for about 1 hour.
Lillie says
Danielle,my machine doesn’t have that setting either so I looked in my book and it said to set it on the cake setting.
I just made it and it looks good so far still waiting for it to cool which is hard because it smells amazing.
Tara Noland says
That should work just fine! Same thing really.
Michael says
do I use the 1.5 pound or 2 pound setting on the bread machine.
thanks for posting this recipe, cant wait to try
Tara Noland says
I don’t have that setting on this machine I have now but if I remember correctly it would be 1.5 as a 2 lb. is quite big.
Susan says
I am looking forward to making this Banana Bread. I have no teeth so Iwill be making it without nuts. Or if I find nuts in my pantry I will Grind them fine, just for the flavour.. I will let you know how that turns out.
Tara Noland says
Please tell me how it turns out for you! Enjoy!
Debbie says
Do you have any bread recipe to make a Gingerbread in the bread machine?
Tara Noland says
I have this recipe Debbie but I have not tried it in the bread machine. https://noshingwiththenolands.com/copycat-starbucks-gingerbread-loaf/ I do have this pumpkin bread that is in the bread machine too. https://noshingwiththenolands.com/bread-machine-pumpkin-pie-spice-loaf/
Danilynn says
Thanks for the recipe. I had several overripe bananas that I had to freeze and your recipe absolutely fit the bill of what I was looking for. Funny story: I decided to make the bread this morning. I just got everything going in the bread maker and our power went out. (Please note: I don’t start cooking anything if it’s storming. It was a calm morning, no storm in sight.) When the power came on I turned the bread maker on again. The bread turned out pretty darned good!
Tara Noland says
Good to know that it can even survive an outage!! I have got to make myself a loaf again, love banana bread!
Trisha says
K I just started this in the bread machine.
It’s fine with the mixing… But it looks sooo wet still. Is that normal?
Tara Noland says
Hi Trisha, hard to know what you see when you say sooo wet. Hopefully it bakes up fine.
Georgette olivier says
Mine too, I added a bit more flour but didn’t help, waiting the whole circle is done & hope for the best
Rhonda says
Can I use dry sugar substitute?
Tara Noland says
I haven’t tried but you might be able to.
Nicole says
my bread maker (breadman ) does not have the quick bread setting. or the cake setting as mentioned above. It does have fruit&nut and alsorxtreme rapid, do you think it will work?
Tara Noland says
I am not sure as it might be a setting for when you add nuts and fruit. You can always give it a try!!
Kim says
Is this recipe for a 2lb loaf?
Tara Noland says
I would think it is closer to a 1.5 lb. but my bread machine is different.
Heather says
Made this last night on a delayed timer. I used the 2lb loaf setting (that’s the smallest mine goes) and had to customize the times since my “cake” setting doesn’t allow for the delayed timer.
Used 2 fresh bananas, and 1 frozen. I mashed the fresh ones and mixed with the sugar, eggs, vanilla and sour cream (I actually subbed for Greek yogurt). And then plopped a cold frozen banana in with it to try and keep things cold over night. Added like 1/4 tsp nutmeg and 1 tsp cinnamon to the dry ingredients when layering. Reduced butter to 1/3 cup, cubed it into 1 TBSP(ish) portions and lined them up on the top of the dry ingredients. It turned out amazing other than a little burnt on the bottom (left it on the warm setting a little too long).
Thanks for the base recipe and idea to try this! Will absolutely do it again!
Tara Noland says
Glad you made it your own and it worked out!! Enjoy!!
Lindsey says
Can I omit the sour cream?
Tara Noland says
You can just add a 1/4 cup more banana instead.
Kristen Liam says
Awesome recipe. Thanks for sharing.
Can I use yogurt in place of ice cream?
Tara Noland says
I am sure you mean sour cream and yes, use a good Greek yogurt.
Candie says
I have this running in my machine now I’ll let you know how it turns out.
Tara Noland says
I hope it turns out for you, I just made it again for my girlfriends over the weekend and they all loved it.
Kara Pitcher says
I just made this banana bread today. It came out delicious! Will definitely make it again!
Tara Noland says
Awesome, I just finished another loaf yesterday!!
M says
What if I only have two bananas and I REALLY wanna make it???? Should I add more sour cream??? More sugar???
Tara Noland says
Go ahead and make it, just add a bit more sour cream and you should be fine.
Shelley says
I have made this twice now. First time the top wasnt baked, but I doscovered that my lid was not closed all the way. Second time, top looked cooked, felt done, took it out and top fell apart and the whole middle wasnt cooked. Any suggestions?
Tara Noland says
Sounds like it is a setting issue on your bread machine, are you able to up it at all with a larger loaf size?
Maria says
Made this, this weekend! Great Recipe! Moist! Baked up nicely in my bread machine! This recipe is a keeper!
Tara Noland says
Awesome, so glad you loved it. We make this all the time.
Robin Mosher says
I made this today with my machine and the bread was sooo good. I will say that after I didn’t the quick setting, it still wasn’t done so I left it in for another 10mins but that did cook it. I decided to try the bake option for another 20-30mins and it was perfect. Just had to play around with it to make it right for my machine! Thanks so much for a wonderful recipe.
Tara Noland says
Perfect, all bread machines are different so there is some play needed. Once you have it figured out you are good to go!!