Have you bought too many bananas and now you dont know what to do with the too-squishy-to-eat, brownish-black fruits? Turning them into a moist loaf of banana bread is a go-to solution. Beyond being comforting and delicious, banana bread can put all those soon-to-rot overripe bananas to use. But if you try to use up all your bananas without paying attention to the ratio of other ingredients, your bread can turn out damp, soggy, and mushy. Contrary to what one may think, there is such a thing as using too many bananas in a banana bread.
Besides adding a sweet and fruity flavor to the bread, bananas also add a lot of moisture to the batter. When used in moderation, the bread will be wonderfully tender, moist, and spongey. But use too many, and the same fruit will add way too much moisture, giving the loaf an unappetizing undercooked texture that is wet, mushy, and heavy in the middle.
You Use Too Much Banana Fight the urge to use more banana than called for in your recipe. Using too much banana could make your bread heavy and damp in the center, causing it to appear undercooked and unappealing. If you have bananas leftover, you can always freeze them for later use.
How many bananas should you use?
As tempting as it may be to dump all those overripe bananas into your batter, four medium-sized bananas are typically the most that a single loaf of banana bread can accommodate — any more and youre likely looking at a loaf thats going to be dense and heavy rather than soft and moist in the middle.
If youre experimenting with your recipe and the amounts of the ingredients, a good ratio to go by is a cup of mashed bananas for every cup of flour that you add to the batter. That means youll need approximately one whole banana, plus another half, for each cup of flour in your recipe. Consider how much flour you need depending on the number of bananas you have, or vice-versa. While the ratio for bananas to flour does have some room in that you could work with, meaning you could use two whole bananas rather than one and a half if you must, any more than that is a recipe for mushiness.
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