MAPLE BANANA BREAD – The Southern Lady Cooks

This Maple Banana Bread is wonderful! It is the best Fall bread to make and great for the holiday season too.

❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE

The combination of maple and banana really goes well together. If you have followed us for any amount of time, you know we love banana bread. I think there are 20 different variations on our website. We love the maple glaze on this bread; it really adds to the maple flavor. Each time we make this we say how good it is! It’s the perfect Fall banana bread.

SWAPS

If you are not a fan of nuts you can leave them out. We make this bread with buttermilk and we suggest you do too. It adds the perfect fat content and make this bread moist and delicious. You don’t have to add the glaze but it definitely takes this bread to the next level.

⭐TIP

We let the bread cool about 10 minutes in the pan then remove it. We also let the bread cool before adding the glaze. The glaze can be tricky, getting the consistency correct, and you may need to thin it some if it gets too thick. Just keep working with it! It’s worth the effort.

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Maple Banana Bread

Judy Yeager

This Maple Banana Bread is the perfect morning treat! It has wonderful reviews and it’s delicious with coffee.

Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Total Time 1 hour hr 15 minutes mins

Course bread, Breakfast

Cuisine American, southern

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 stick butter or 8 tablespoons softened
• 3/4 cup white granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 3 medium bananas peeled and mashed
• 1/3 cup maple syrup
• 1 teaspoon maple extract
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts (pecans or walnuts) Optional

Maple glaze:

• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 3 to 4 tablespoons milk
• 1/4 cup butter or 4 tablespoons
• 1 teaspoon maple extract
• 1 cup powdered sugar

• Whisk together the flour and baking soda in a bowl. In another bowl using a mixer combine the butter, white sugar, eggs, buttermilk, bananas, maple syrup and maple extract.

• Pour wet ingredients into the flour mixture and continue mixing with mixer. Fold in nuts. Spray a 9 x 5 baking dish and pour in batter. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven 60 to 65 minutes or until center tests done.

• Add maple glaze recipe below.

Maple glaze instructions:

• Combine brown sugar, milk and butter in a saucepan and bring to a boil on top of the stove. Boil for one minute stirring constantly. Remove and add maple extract and powdered sugar.

• Drizzle over banana bread. Can add more milk if glaze starts to harden.

We let the bread cool about 10 minutes and remove it from the pan. Then let it cool completely before adding the glaze. 

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