Ultimate banana bread from Smitten Kitchen by Deb Perelman

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    Can substitute turbinado sugar for raw sugar.

  • rosasharne on May 19, 2026

    half recipe as muffins

  • mabryp on February 23, 2026

    Loved this! Best banana bread recipe I’ve made in a while. Perfect in my large bread pan 9.25 x 5.25

  • imaluckyducky on September 14, 2023

    This is a solid 5 stars for me. I LOVE dense, moist banana bread that is packed with banana flavor. This is certainly it. Divine with walnuts stirred into the batter as well. Delicious on its own, with butter, or warmed up with some vanilla ice cream on top.

  • Jane on April 24, 2020

    I've been on a spate of new banana bread recipes recently and this is my least favorite of the three (the others are the #1 from Flour and Nigel Slater). It uses a LOT of bananas (510g) and is quite dense. One thing I did like was the crackly sugar top and I will add that to the Flour recipe. I mean it would be hard for any banana bread recipe to be bad, and this is perfectly edible, it just isn't the Ultimate for me.

  • Rutabaga on April 19, 2020

    My family would agree that this is the ultimate banana bread - they loved it and asked right away to make it again. I had five very ripe bananas, the best for banana bread, and by weight they were a little less than what Perelman lists, but fortunately that didn't seem to be a problem. We also added some chopped dark chocolate, which is my boys' favorite way to enjoy their banana bread.

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