{"id":27861,"date":"2026-02-23T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=27861"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:04:00","slug":"trills-recipes-banana-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2026\/02\/23\/trills-recipes-banana-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"Trill\u2019s Recipes<\/em>: Banana bread"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Banana bread is an easy, and delicious, way to use those old, browning bananas (photo by Trillium McNabb\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ingredients:
\n<\/span>3-4 ripe bananas
\n1\/4 cup melted butter
\n1 cup sugar
\n1 beaten egg
\n1 tbs vanilla extract
\n<\/span>1 tsp baking soda
\n1 1\/2 cups flour
\nPinch of salt
\nCooking oil spray
\nOptional: 1 1\/2 cups chocolate chips or chopped nuts<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t throw away your browning bananas\u2014save them in the freezer to have a tasty treat for later.<\/p>\n

I made this recipe with my mom as a kid all the time. Even though bananas are not my favourite fruit, I couldn\u2019t resist this delicious snack. Banana bread is very straightforward but also customizable with what fillings you can add. I personally recommend nuts or chocolate chips\u2014if you\u2019re feeling fancy, use both.<\/p>\n

Pre heat your oven to 350 F. In a large bowl mash up your ripe bananas, then mix in with the butter, vanilla, and beaten egg. Then add in the baking soda and salt, and mix thoroughly. Add the flour in parts, mixing between each addition. Put in the chocolate chips and give the batter one final mix. The batter should look loose, but not runny.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Grease a loaf pan with a small nob of butter or with oil spray. Pour the batter into the loaf pan; it should fill about two-thirds of the pan. Bake for one hour, checking with a toothpick or wooden chopstick to see if it comes out clean; when it does, take the pan out of the oven to let it cool for a while. Take the loaf out of the pan and let cool the rest of the way on a rack. Once cooled, it\u2019s ready to enjoy.<\/p>\n

If you are using frozen bananas let them thaw completely in a ceramic or glass bowl. Do not use a stainless steel bowl, as they hold on to the cold, making the bananas thaw slower. When the bananas are thawed, don\u2019t peel them\u2014cut the stem off with scissors. Then squeeze the fruit out like a yogurt tube. This process is the most unpleasant part of making banana bread; I recommend using gloves. Or you can use yellow bananas, but they don\u2019t have as much flavour power compared to the brown ones.<\/p>\n

This recipe takes a long time to bake. The batter has a high moisture content, so to prevent burned sides with a liquid middle, it\u2019s cooked at a lower temperature. This type of bread is closer to cake texture than it is to normal bread. It can be cut into when it\u2019s still warm, and it won\u2019t affect the texture of the whole loaf. I like to put a small amount of butter on my slice and heat it up in the microwave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ingredients: 3-4 ripe bananas 1\/4 cup melted butter 1 cup sugar 1 beaten egg 1 tbs vanilla extract 1 tsp baking soda 1 1\/2 cups flour Pinch of salt Cooking oil spray Optional: 1 1\/2 cups chocolate chips or chopped nuts Don\u2019t throw away your browning bananas\u2014save them in the freezer to have a tasty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[348,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-february-18-2026","category-columns"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27863,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27861\/revisions\/27863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}