Six-Banana Banana Bread

Six-Banana Banana Bread — 🍌 Not sure what to do with overripe bananas you have on hand? Make this Six-Banana Banana Bread! This is the best banana bread recipe EVER — it’s so moist and flavorful! 

There’s no chance of wimpy or lackluster banana flavor here. I baked six bananas into one loaf. Yes, six.

Don’t get me wrong, I love my gold standard banana bread recipe for banana bread. It’s everything I want and it never lets me down. But I also cheat on it from time to time. Say, with 35+ banana recipes, and about 15 of them are recipes for various Banana Breads. You can never have too many.

I wanted to pack more pure banana essence and intensity into the bread and so I used more bananas. A whole lot more.

Rather than using 1 to 1 1/2 cups of bananas, which is what most recipes call for, I used a solid 2 1/2 cups. To compensate for the extra banana volume and moisture, I cut back on the amount of Greek yogurt (or sour cream) I usually use.

The verdict is that this super moist banana bread is everything and more. It’s soft, tender and supremely moist. The pudding mix serves to add some lightness, fluffiness, and springiness.

You’ll never have to wonder again what to do with overripe bananas thanks to this freckled overripe banana recipe in your arsenal. Kill six with one loaf.

You may even find yourself wishing for some speckly and freckly ones.

How Does Six-Banana Banana Bread Taste?

Because of the 6 bananas, don’t expect a super light and airy loaf. It’s on the heavier and denser side, but I think all good banana bread should be. I don’t want light, airy, cakey, or dry. I want moist, heavy, and dense.

The real clincher is that all those bananas really make a difference in the overall banana flavor and intensity level.

If you’ve ever felt like your banana bread is a bit underwhelming in banana intensity level, this recipe will cure that. It’s bursting with banana flavor. I mean, duh.

Ingredients in Six-Banana Banana Bread 

To make this super moist banana bread recipe, you’ll need: 

• Unsalted butter
• Eggs
• Granulated sugar
• Light brown sugar
• Sour cream – or Greek yogurt
• Vanilla extract
• Bananas
• Vanilla instant pudding mix
• All-purpose flour
• Baking soda
• Ground cinnamon
• Salt

Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.

How to Make Banana Bread with 6 Bananas

This super moist banana bread made with six bananas comes together quickly and easily! Here are the basic steps:

1. Combine melted butter, eggs, two types of sugar, sour cream, and vanilla in a mixing bowl and whisk to combine. 
2. Add the six mashed bananas, followed by the dry ingredients (note that you add the pudding mix dry — you don’t need to make it into pudding first!). 
3. Bake the homemade banana bread in a greased 9×5-inch loaf pan for roughly 60 to 75 minutes.

Recipe Variations to Try

This extra moist banana bread made with vanilla pudding mix and six bananas is perfect as is, but you’re welcome to add mix-ins or tweak the recipe as desired!

• Add chocolate chips — 1/2 cup or so should do it.
• Add nuts — Raw, unsalted chopped nuts are best.
• Swap the sour cream for Greek yogurt — Make sure to use plain, full-fat Greek yogurt.
• Instant vanilla pudding mix — This bread doesn’t need any more banana flavor, but you could always add instant banana pudding mix instead!
• Spices — I used 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, but you can add more. Or, you can add additional spices such as nutmeg, ginger, cloves, etc.

The one mix-in I do NOT recommend adding is fresh fruit or berries. This bread is already quite dense and supremely moist, and if you add berries the batter will never bake through properly.

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Six-Banana Banana Bread

By Averie Sunshine

🍌 Not sure what to do with overripe bananas you have on hand? Make this Six-Banana Banana Bread! This is the best banana bread recipe EVER — it’s so moist and flavorful!

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour hour 8 minutes minutes

Total Time: 1 hour hour 18 minutes minutes

Servings: 10

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Ingredients  

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• ▢ ¼ cup unsalted butter, melted
• ▢ 2 large eggs
• ▢ ¾ cup granulated sugar
• ▢ ¼ cup light brown sugar, packed
• ▢ ¼ cup sour cream or thick Greek yogurt
• ▢ 1 tablespoon vanilla extract, or to taste
• ▢ 6 medium/large very ripe bananas, mashed (2 1/2 cups mashed bananas; if your bananas are huge you may only need 4 or 5; if they’re small, you may need more)
• ▢ one 3.4-ounce box vanilla instant pudding mix, not Cook ‘n Serve
• ▢ 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• ▢ 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
• ▢ 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• ▢ ½ teaspoon salt, or to taste

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Instructions 

• Preheat oven to 350F. Spray a 9×5 loaf pan with floured cooking spray, or grease and flour the pan; set aside. (If necessary, you may need to use a muffin pan or mini loaf for pan a small amount of batter.)*
• In a large microwave-safe bowl, melt the butter, about 1 minute on high power. Allow the butter to cool momentarily so you don’t scramble the eggs.
• Add the eggs, sugars, sour cream, vanilla, and whisk to combine.
• Add the bananas and stir to incorporate
• Add the pudding mix (just add it dry like a dry ingredient; don’t actually make pudding), flour, baking soda, cinnamon, optional salt, and fold in with spatula or stir gently with a spoon; don’t overmix or bread will be tougher.
• Bake 9×5 loaf for 60 to 75 minutes (I baked 68 minutes), or until the top is domed, golden, and the center is set, and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, or with a few moist crumbs, but no batter. Tip – In the final 10 to 15 minutes of cooking, or at any point if your bread is getting a bit dark before the center is setting, tent with foil. There are a lot of moist bananas to cook through in this loaf so if it takes longer than the estimated time to cook through, do so. Do not pull it from the oven, and decide later that it wasn't quite done!
• Allow bread to cool in pan for about 20 minutes before turning out on a wire rack to cool completely before slicing and serving. Serve plain, or with butter, jam, or your favorite spread. Makes excellent French toast.
• Storage – Bread will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 5 days, or in the freezer for up to 4 months.

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Notes

• If you can’t find pudding in your area (international readers write about this), I recommend adding one-quarter cup of additional flour, two teaspoons of cornstarch, and a dash of extra sugar.
• *If baking a mini loaf is necessary, bake for about 35 minutes, or until done; I estimate 2 or 3 muffins will take about 20 to 25 minutes.
• Baking times for loaves will vary based on moisture content of bananas, pan sizes, climate, and oven variances. Bake until done; watch your bread, not the clock.

Nutrition

Serving: 1slice, Calories: 305kcal, Carbohydrates: 59g, Protein: 5g, Fat: 6g, Saturated Fat: 3g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 2g, Trans Fat: 0.2g, Cholesterol: 45mg, Sodium: 298mg, Potassium: 315mg, Fiber: 3g, Sugar: 29g, Vitamin A: 235IU, Vitamin C: 6mg, Calcium: 27mg, Iron: 2mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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Originally published May 29, 2013 and republished January 14, 2022 with updated text.