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Bread Machine Banana Bread

This bread machine banana bread recipe uses the cake or quick bread setting on your bread machine. The banana bread is moist and delicious. It’s also really easy to make because your bread machine does all the stirring and baking.

Bread Machine Banana Bread

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Last Updated on January 2, 2022 – Originally Posted July 24, 2017

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Wow! Just tried this and my picky husband and I both love it! It tasted super moist and delicious! I used the cake setting on my unbranded bread machine and it only took 1.5 hours! Super easy but great taste! Now I can make it anytime I like!  ~ Am H.

I love the smell of freshly-baked banana bread.  It brings to memories of Grandma serving up slices of warm banana bread to my brother and I.  The bread was warm from the oven and had a slice of melting butter on top.  Heaven!

Banana Facts

Bananas

Banana bread is so popular that there’s even an official National Banana Bread Day.  I kid you not!  It’s February 23rd.  

Bananas are not only tasty, but they’re also good for you!  Check out the vitamins and minerals that they contain (courtesy of Wikipedia):

  • Vitamin B6 
  • Manganese
  • Vitamin C
  • Potassium
  • Dietary Fiber
  • Protein
  • Magnesium
  • Folate
  • Riboflavin (B2)
  • Niacin (B3)
  • Iron

Use the Cake or Quick Bread Cycle

If your bread machine has a cake or quick bread function, you’ll love this bread machine banana bread recipe. The banana bread is moist and delicious. It’s also really easy to make because your bread machine does all the stirring and baking.

Wondering what a quick bread is?  It’s a bread recipe that doesn’t use yeast as leavening.  Instead, the bread uses baking powder or baking soda.  (This recipe uses both.)

The Search for a Good Bread Machine Banana Bread Recipe

I tried for ages to make banana bread in the bread machine. All the recipes I tried had the same problem. The bread never fully baked.  Since the recipe has eggs, it’s important that the bread be fully cooked.

So I tried every bread machine banana bread recipe that I could find for banana bread from the breadmaker.  Most of them turned out tasty bread, but none of the loaves were fully cooked.

When I finally figured out this recipe, I was so shocked and excited that I made it three times in a row to make sure I really had it right. Every loaf was delicious and came out fully cooked.

Banana Oat Bread

Banana Oat Bread

If you’re looking for a banana yeast bread recipe, check out my recipe for banana oat bread.  This is a hearty breakfast bread that will hold you until lunch.  It’s also a great way to use overripe bananas. You’ll love the combination of white flour, whole wheat flour, oats, bananas, and raisins. 

Banana Bread Instructions

Use the cake or quick bread cycle of your bread machine. Note that this recipe is for a two-pound machine.

I used the cake cycle and medium crust settings on my Zojirushi. Follow the instructions that came with your bread machine in terms of which ingredients to put in the machine first.

Here’s the key to success with this recipe. You’re going to go for 2/3 cup of mashed banana combined with milk.  By doing it this way, you’ll always get a consistent amount of moist ingredients per loaf of banana bread.  That’s why this recipe works and the bread is always done.

Mash the banana and put it in a Pyrex measuring cup. Then fill the cup with milk to the 2/3 cup mark. If there’s more banana, you’ll add less milk. If there’s less banana, you’ll add more milk.

mashed banana and milk

I also think that it’s best to add the baking powder and baking soda on top of the flour. That way it gets worked into the batter more evenly.

Banana Bread Ingredients

Note that this is NOT a yeast bread.  Use the cake or quick bread cycle of your bread machine.

1 ½ cups bread flour
⅔ cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
⅓ cup butter, melted
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
⅔ cup mashed banana/milk combination – Important: see the instructions for more on this

Banana Bread

Banana Bread Recipe for the Bread Machine

If your bread machine has a cake or quick bread function, you’ll love this recipe. The banana bread is moist and delicious.  It’s also really easy to make because your bread machine does all the stirring and baking. 
4.39 from 94 votes
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Course: Bread Machine Recipes
Cuisine: American
Keyword: banana bread
Yield: 12 slices per loaf
Author: Marsha Perry

Recommended Equipment

Zojirushi BB-CEC20 Home Bakery Supreme 2-Pound-Loaf
Zojirushi Bread Machine
Measuring Cup
Measuring Cup
Bread Knife
Bread Knife

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cups (187.5 g) bread flour
  • ⅔ cup (133.3 g) sugar
  • 1 teaspoon (1 teaspoon) baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon (0.5 teaspoon) baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon (0.5 teaspoon) salt
  • ⅓ cup (75.7 g) butter melted
  • 2 (2) large eggs lightly beaten
  • 1 teaspoon (1 teaspoon) vanilla
  • ⅔ cup (157.7 ml) mashed banana/milk – see note

Instructions

  • Use the cake or quick bread cycle of your bread machine.
  • This recipe is for a two-pound machine.
  • I used the cake cycle and medium crust settings on my Zojirushi. Follow the instructions that came with your bread machine in terms of which ingredients to put in the machine first.

Notes

This is a recipe for a two-pound machine. You’ll be using the cake or quick bread setting.
The recipe contains 2/3 cup of mashed banana combined with milk.  Mash the banana and put it in a Pyrex measuring cup. Then fill the cup with milk to the 2/3 cup mark. If there’s more banana, you’ll add less milk. If there’s less banana, you’ll add more milk.
Put the baking powder and baking soda directly on top of the flour. That way it gets worked into the batter more evenly.
Banana and Milk
This recipe was developed and tested using US customary measurements. Metric measurements are calculated automatically.

 

All information presented within this site is intended for informational purposes only. I am not a certified nutritionist and any nutritional information on breadmachinediva.com should only be used as a general guideline. This information is provided as a courtesy and there is no guarantee that the information will be completely accurate. I try to provide accurate information to the best of my ability; however these figures should still be considered estimates.

Comments

Bread Machine Banana Bread — 118 Comments

  1. Can’t wait to try your banana bread recipe, however, my bread machine’s max size is 800g – about 1 & 3/4 lb. Can you suggest what ingredients to reduce? Or should I just reduce the main ingredients by about 1/8?
    Thank you 🙂

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  2. 5 stars
    I have made this several times, and it is consistently a winner!

    My notes:

    I use canola oil instead of butter (that makes it healthy, right?).
    Exactly 2/3 cup mashed banana (about 1.5 medium) in the measuring cup.
    No milk
    Really mash the banana and the liquids together with a fork to create a slurry
    225 grams regular white flour
    140 grams sugar
    Heaping 1/4 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips when breadmaker beeps.
    Everything else per recipe.

    Zojirushi BB-CEC20WB Cake setting with dark crust.

    Success!

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  3. 5 stars
    Success! Finally an excellent banana bread recipe for the Zojirushi BB-CEC20!! I added in 1/4 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips when it beeped.

    The banana bread recipe at the Zojirushi web site was very disappointing. I only made it once. https://www.zojirushi.com/app/recipe/banana-bread.

    My goto banana bread for years was based on a recipe from a Regal Kitchen Pro breadmaker that died after 20 years. If you tried to make it in the Zojirushi, you had to move it to the oven for a while to finish baking. I contacted Zojirushi to see if there was it was possible to create a custom setting for this recipe, and they said no.

    This is now my second favorite banana bread recipe, and it is way less work and doesn’t heat up the kitchen running the oven (a real benefit in August). I would be happy to share my other recipe if folks would like to try to adapt it (beyond my bread maker ability) or just to try it and see how it compares to this one.

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  4. Posted a few days ago. Great recipe as written that works great….but FYI: I tried to make a “double batch” in my bread machine by doubling all ingredients and it didn’t cook through all the way. I’ve emptied it into a bread tin and am baking it in my oven for another 30 mins to try and salvage it.

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    • Good information. I guess something to remember that in addition to finding a recipe that works, we’re all working with the capabilities of the bread machine. The bread machine just couldn’t handle a double batch. 🙁

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  8. I love the recipe, made it twice, bread is easy to make and delicious. I have one problem if anyone can help, my flour cakes up and forms a flour crust on the bottom of my bread. I tried to stir it during the add nut cycle, I am using bread flour. Happened both times.

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  9. The last 2 times I’ve made this recipe,I used chopped up apple instead of banana. The first time I also used orange juice instead of milk to make up the 2/3 cup. Today, I used the milk, but also added cinnamon, and nutmeg. Both experiments turned out very nicely.

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  10. I just got my first bread machine last week. I’ve made 3 loads of bread so far. I live banana bread, so I am trying your recipe right now. I am excited to see the results. I am not a cook, my wife has done all the cooking and baking these past 38 years.
    Wish me luck!

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    • My cake cycle is 1 hour and 50 minutes. It stirs for 24 minutes, bakes for 70 minutes and cools for 16 minutes. BUT that doesn’t mean that your (shorter) cake cycle might do even better than mine. I’d try them both. If you do, let me know which is better.

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    • 5 stars
      I have made this twice with different amounts of milk to make up 2/3 with the banana and both times it came out excellent. I use the cake setting on my bread maker.

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  14. I too, had been struggling with banana bread recipes that came out too heavy or underdone. GREAT job! This was wonderful. I added some walnuts. Couldn’t be better. Thank you!

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  15. I’m SO happy with this recipe. Have tried others that didn’t cook all the way through. But this turned out fluffy and moist! My substitutions worked out great- packed brown sugar and Bob’s Red Mill 1 to 1 Gluten Free baking flour. I was nervous about not using bread flour but it turned out wonderfully on the cake setting for 1:40. Will be making again! Only thing I’ll slightly tweak next time is opening up my bread machine during mixing to scrape some of the flour off the sides to make sure it all incorporates since I had a little bit of flour on the sides of the bread. Not a big deal at all though, still very tasty! Thank you.

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  16. I just made this, and it turned out fine after I made a couple of guesses. My ancient Philips bread machine needed to be set for 1.5-lb rather than two-lb, and I used the cake cycle. The dough is really more of a batter, and needed to be spatulaed down once the bake started.

    Since I had only one ripe banana, I added a couple of slugs of banana extract for the milk mash. My real experiment, though, was substituting granulated erythritol (Swerve) for half the sugar, and the result is so perfect that next time I’ll try all Swerve.

    Thank you for this recipe!

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  17. I’ve tweaked my Banana Bread recipe with substitutions for oil (applesauce) and buttermilk (Greek Yogurt). The butter in this one gives me pause; have you ever substituted the fat content in bread machine recipes with applesauce or something else? I’d be curious how they turned out. I’m not sure my husband would be willing to let the bananas be Guinea pigs, so to speak. He buys bananas and purposely lets them go too ripe so I have to make banana bread, lol!

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  20. Just wonder it I can use “all purpose’ flour instead of “bread” flour? Due to the pandemic- flour of any kind is in very limited supply.

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  21. I tried this with Bisquick instead of the separate flour/baking powder/baking soda and it came out wonderfully. The Bisquick mix must be about the same ratios. Just thought I’d throw that out there in case anyone else is as lazy as me.

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  22. We must eat low sodium. Do you know if the no salt baking powder and baking soda will change this recipe in any way?

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  23. I would like to try this but my old 2 pound size Oster machine doesn’t have a Cake cycle. It does have not one, but two, “ExpressBake” fast cycles though. The differences being:

    The 58 minute cycle kneads 13 minutes, rests 10 minutes & bakes 35 minutes.

    The 80 minute cycle kneads 20 minutes, rests 12 minutes & bakes 48 minutes.

    Which cycle do you think best approximates these new fangled Cake cycles? 35 minutes of baking time would normally be waaay too short for a banana bread in the oven.

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  25. Just made this, AMAZING!!!!!! For some reason ate the sound of the beep I got the urge to toss in a bunch of mini chocolate chips. I think I will eat it all.

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  26. Excellent recipe ! Turned out perfect the first time. Just baked the Pound cake (it’s cooling now ) and it too came out beautiful. I also use and recommend the Zojirushi Bread Machine. Thanks for the great recipes. You definitely made the “Nice List” Ho Ho Ho.

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  27. I would like to try this out. May I know butter that you used is salted or unsalted? Also, for milk, is full cream, low fat or fresh milk?

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  28. Since there is no yeast to “feed” in this recipe, can the sugar be replaced with a sugar substitute (i.e. Splenda)? I absolutely love banana bread, but my diabetes (and my waistline) does not allow that much sugar!

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  29. Wow! Just tried this and my picky husband and I both love it! It tasted super moist and delicious! I used the cake setting on my unbranded bread machine and it only took 1.5 hours! Super easy but great taste! Now I can make it anytime I like! Many many thanks for your wonderful work!

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  31. This works equally well baked. I wanted to try making it in the bread machine but my machine was not working on sweet bread so I took it back out and mixed it in a bowl, put it in a loaf pan and baked it in my toaster oven.I threw another batch together and added chocolate chips and put that in my convection oven. 350 in the toaster oven and 325 in the convection oven. approx 45 min. to an hour and it as done.

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  32. Bread is out. Should have watched to make sure all mixed but overall still moist and good. A lot smaller than regular oven baked but hey easy to make.

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  33. Just put it all in the bread machine. Loving that it is the first recipe without nuts. My husband can’t chew them and other recipes don’t say they are optional so wasn’t sure I could use those. Will be updating on how it turns out. Lol my bananas must have been huge I had to actually leave some out cause I had sooo much more than 3/4 cup lol.

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    • Just a note re: nuts. Rest assured that even if the recipe for any sweet bake, be it cookies, sweet breads or cakes, calls for nuts and doesn’t note they are “optional”, they always are. No brownie, fruit bread, etc will be ruined by removing nuts. Even chunky PB cookies. Just use smooth PB and don’t add any ground nuts.

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    • I’m sorry, but using yeast in this recipe is not advised. However, you can use dry milk instead of regular milk. You’ll need to research to find the correct amounts of milk powder and water to replace the milk.

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      • Since Marsha’s recipe calls for adding milk to the smooshed bananas to get to 2/3 cup total just… make some milk! Since no two bananas are alike this would be the only way to get the liquid amount correct each time. And it would be impractical to add the milk powder separately not knowing how much water you added to the bananas.

        If you only want to make up a small amount of milk I reversed engineered the math a while ago to make small quantities. The two smallest amounts I ciphered up are:

        1/4 cup dry milk + 3/4 cup water
        ~ or ~
        1/3 cup dry milk + 1 cup water

        I did not try to figure out what those are equal to when combined. I was only concerned about getting the milk powder to water ratio correct to make up “smaller than a quart at a time” amounts.

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        • Yes and no. How’s that for an answer. 🙂

          Yes, you can add nuts and that would taste great. However, I suspect that using a lot of nuts in my machine before this one made it not last as long. I asked Zojirushi and they said it would be okay. I haven’t used nuts in this machine though and it’s lasted a lot longer.

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  35. Just got the same zojirushi. I made the banana bread recipe as per their website which had a recipe for a 2lb loaf on a older model. It was good. Did you ever try that one? I’m unimpressed with the recipe book the zojirushi came with. I’d love to know your take on it and what recipes you change and why. Thanks

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    • I don’t know how many recipes I tried for banana bread before this one. Many of them were good, but the problem that I had was that the bread wasn’t fully cooked. Since the recipes all called for eggs, this was a safety concern. I’ve made this recipe a number of times and it’s always been fully cooked.

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      • Hi Marsha. Not necessarily – the Oster machines have special bread recipes for their ExpressBake (quick) cycles. Instead of no yeast you use Red Star Quick Rise yeast and actually ramp the amount of yeast way up for those cycles. (Like 2 tablespoons versus a more regular 2 teaspoons.) Never tried making bread that way because it requires buying a different type yeast just for those cycles.

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          • Making this right now in my Hamilton Beach model# 29882 machine. Luckily I was watching as it starting mixing because the egg/banana/milk slurry was just spinning in the center while most of the flour was staying put on the edges! I helped it along with a rubber spatula and it mixed just fine, but seems awfully wet. The baking cycle is beginning now… Fingeres crossed!

            – Hamilton Beach 29882 machine
            – Cycle 4
            – Medium crust
            – recipe followed exactly as written

  41. I have made this recipe 3 times. The taste is great. I have found for my bread machine the ingredients mix better if I add the dry ingredients last. I also add about 1/3 cup of chunky peanut butter and it turns out great.

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    • 4 stars
      Taste is delicious! Like a previous poster mentioned, my Phillips machine did not mix the outer edges well and it came out with the bottom coated with a thick layer of unmixed ingredients. To be fair, my machine always lists wet first then dry, so I will try it again with the dry put in last and watch for complete mixing. Even with the bottom cut off, everyone ate it up.

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  42. I made the banana bread yesterday and it was really good . I made it on the cake setting which I had never used before. I just got a cuisinart bread machine. It only took 1 1/2 hours to make, but it lasted less than an hour. We ate it all. Now I have to make more. I’m going to try the banana jam today. Thanks for the recipes

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  44. Thank you for sharing this recipe! I have finally found a banana bread recipe that comes out fully baked! It is so moist and delicious! YEAH!

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    • I’m so glad you like the recipe.

      I’ve been experimenting with different recipes for years. I had the same problem you did, the banana bread was never baked all the way through. And with eggs in the recipe, that’s so important.

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