Nutella Banana Bread
- Total Time
- 1 hour 20 minutes
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Ingredients
- ½cup/113 grams unsalted butter (1 stick), plus more for greasing the pan
- 2cups/256 grams all-purpose flour, plus more for flouring the pan
- 1teaspoon baking soda
- ¾teaspoon kosher salt
- 1½cups/310 grams mashed bananas, from about 3 medium bananas
- ⅔cup/134 grams granulated sugar
- ¼cup/57 grams plain Greek yogurt
- 2eggs
- 1teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅓cup/99 grams chocolate-hazelnut spread, like Nutella
Preparation
- Step 1
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan.
- Step 2
Stir the flour, baking soda and salt together in a bowl.
- Step 3
Brown butter: Melt butter in a light-colored saucepan over medium heat. Cook butter, occasionally scraping the bottom and sides of the pan with a rubber spatula until it turns a deep golden brown and smells nutty. Don’t walk away from the pan during this process. The butter will go from browned and nutty to acrid and burnt in moments. Transfer butter to a large heat-safe mixing bowl and let it cool slightly.
- Step 4
When the butter has cooled a bit, add the mashed bananas, sugar, yogurt, eggs and vanilla extract. Stir until well combined, then add the flour mixture and stir until just combined. Do not overmix.
- Step 5
Pour half the batter into prepared pan and spread it evenly with a knife or offset spatula. Spoon half the chocolate-hazelnut spread in several dollops over the top and use a toothpick or skewer to swirl it into the batter. Spoon and spread the remaining batter over the top followed by dollops of the remaining spread. Swirl in the spread, then bake the bread for 55 to 60 minutes or until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
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You can make your own Nutella. It's insanely good. This is the recipe, from Cooks Illustrated's Kitchen Hacks book. Toast the hazelnuts first at 375 for about 10 or 12 minutes, and then roll to remove most of the skins. Grind all of this together in the food processor. • 2 cups (8 ounces) hazelnuts • 1 cup confectioners' sugar • 1/3 cup cocoa powder • 2 tablespoons hazelnut oil. • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract • teaspoon salt
I checked a jar of Nutella yesterday. It contains palm oil. Palm oil production is a major contributor to rainforest deforestation and loss of biodiversity. Please don’t buy products that contain it.
This was better with 2tsp of bourbon. Actually, most things are better with at least 2tsp bourbon.
I’ve made this dozens of times and it’s delicious every time. My family fights over it. I always add a generous T. of bourbon to the batter and definitely use more Nutella than called for. Otherwise, I follow the directions exactly.
This recipe was delicious. Used 3 large bananas (closer to 400 grams total) and I reduced the sugar to 1/3 cup. It was a perfect level of sweetness with the nutella swirls. I used sour cream instead of yogurt since I was out. Highly recommend this recipe!
Was good but not great. No wow factor and Nutella is in chunks inside but the banana bread itself is not that flavorful - 4/5 though since the bake itself is perfect and has a good crumb