Bread Machine Banana Nut Bread + Video

This bread machine banana nut bread is super easy to make and creates a delicious walnut banana bread. It is perfect to serve as a wonderful snack or dessert. Your family will love the taste of this easy bread machine recipe.

Sliced Bread Machine Banana Nut Bread

Recipe Sections

1. Ingredients
2. Instructions
3. Recipe Video
4. Helpful Tips

Recipe Rating 4.91 from 10 votes Featured Comment Walt “I have made this recipe several times now. Everyone loves it. I have had a couple people say they didn’t care for Banana bread until now.”

Of course, the key to great bread machine banana nut bread is the use of RIPE bananas and FRESH chopped walnuts. This will help you to avoid either a bland-tasting banana bread and/or bad-tasting walnuts.

Disclaimer: Since this bread machine banana bread contains walnuts, please do not serve it to anyone with a nut allergy. Always use caution when serving any type of banana nut bread.

Bread Machine Banana Nut Bread – Cooling Down

FYI – If you have a small compact bread machine, you might like to try my recipe for 1 lb Bread Machine Banana Bread. The 2 lb version below is too big for many small bread machines.

Ingredients

• 1 Cup – Mashed Bananas – 230 grams – Use RIPE bananas for the best results
• 1/2 Cup – Vegetable Oil – 115 milliliters – Use a neutral tasting vegetable oil such as corn. Do not use strongly flavored oil or old oil. Or you can use 1/2 cup of semi-melted butter. For more info, see the tips section below.
• 2 – Eggs (lightly beaten) – 114 grams – Use large eggs (not extra large or jumbo eggs)
• 1 Teaspoon – Vanilla Extract – 5 milliliters
• 1 Cup – Light Brown Sugar (packed cup) – 215 grams
• 2 Cups – All Purpose Flour – 280 grams
• 1 Teaspoon – Baking Soda – 5 grams
• 1 Teaspoon – Baking Powder – 4 grams
• 1/2 Teaspoon – Salt – 3 grams
• 1 Teaspoon – Ground Cinnamon – 3 grams
• 3/4 Cup – Chopped Walnuts – 87 grams – You can also use chopped pecans

Servings – Approximately 12 slices

Equipment Needed – Measuring cup & spoons, soft flexible spatula, oven mitts, wire cooling rack… and of course, a bread machine!

Recipe Video – Watch How This Recipe Is Made

Instructions

• Total Machine Time – approximately 1:40 hours. FYI – The machine will spend roughly 20 minutes mixing and 1:20 hours baking.
• Bread Machine Settings – Quick Bread/Cake, Light Color, 2 lb
• Beat the eggs.
• Mash bananas with a fork.
• Add the mashed bananas, vegetable oil, eggs & vanilla extract into the bread pan and then add the other ingredients. Try to follow the order of the ingredients listed above so that liquid ingredients are placed in the bread pan first and the dry ingredients second. Be aware that the bread pan should be removed from the bread machine before you start to add any ingredients. This helps to avoid spilling any material inside the bread machine. The bread machine should always be unplugged when removing the bread pan.
• Put the bread pan (with all of the ingredients) back into the bread machine, close the bread machine lid and then plug in the bread machine.
• Enter the bread machine settings (Quick Bread/Cake, Light Color) and press the start button. FYI – Before making this recipe, please READ the tips section below for more information regarding the quick bread/cake setting used to make banana breads. On your machine, this setting might be called “quick bread”, “quick bread/cake”, “cake”, etc. However, some manufacturers use the “quick bread” setting for rapid sandwich-type breads that use yeast (and not for quick breads such as banana bread that use baking powder/soda). Therefore, this setting can be very confusing… but the tips section below will help you to find the right setting to use on your machine. You need to enter the correct banana bread setting used by your SPECIFIC bread machine model or your banana nut bread could be under or overcooked.
• After the first bread machine mixing cycle and before the second mixing (final mixing), add the chopped walnuts to the bread pan. FYI – Some bread machines will beep at the appropriate time to add nuts/dried fruit to a recipe and other machines have an automatic dispenser for nuts/dried fruit.
• When the bread machine has finished baking the bread, unplug the bread machine, remove the bread pan and place it on a wooden cutting board. Use oven mitts when removing the bread pan because it will be very hot!
• After removing the bread pan from the bread machine, you should let the banana nut bread stay within the warm bread pan on a wooden cutting board for 10 minutes (as this finishes the baking process) before you remove the banana nut bread from the bread pan. Wear oven mitts.
• After the 10 minute “cooldown”, you should remove the banana nut bread from the bread pan and place the banana nut bread on a wire cooling rack to finish cooling. Use oven mitts when removing the bread.
• You should allow the banana nut bread to completely cool before cutting. This can take up to 2 hours. Otherwise, the banana bread will break (crumble) more easily when cut.
• Please READ the tips section below for extra information on how to make this recipe successfully and to avoid common bread machine problems with moister “quick bread” recipes such as banana nut bread.
• You also can watch my recipe video to “see” how to perform each recipe step.

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Helpful Tips

• The tips below are designed to help bread machine “novices” and those who haven’t touched their bread machine in years. However, if you are an experienced bread machine user who has made many “quick breads” with your bread machine… then you probably know many of these tips.
• Click on this “print recipe” link if you want to print out this recipe. It includes all of the recipe’s ingredients and instructions. However, the recipe print function does not include my tips section. Please read the tips section in order to avoid common recipe problems.
• If you would rather “see” how this recipe is made, please watch the step-by-step recipe video on this page. It is a short & simple video that shows you how to make this recipe.
• This recipe is part of Bread Dad’s series on easy Bread Machine Recipes such as extra soft white bread, cinnamon raisin bread, French bread and rye bread.

• Warning – The number 1 error that people make when creating a bread machine banana nut bread is using the WRONG setting. The people who have a problem often use the “quick” or “quick bread” setting designed for fast/express sandwich bread recipes that use yeast… and NOT the “quick bread” or “cake” setting designed for moist quick breads (e.g. banana bread & pumpkin bread) that use baking soda/powder. These are two totally different settings with different mixing & baking lengths. You need to find the correct baking soda/powder “quick bread” setting used with YOUR specific make & model of bread machine. FYI – To avoid this error, please read the setting tips lower down in the tips section & read your machine manual.
• To more easily find the “quick bread/cake” setting names used by some of the most popular bread machines, you should visit my Bread Machine Quick Bread Settings page. I set this up to help people find the correct banana bread setting for their particular machine.
• Common Error # 2 – Using UNRIPE bananas! If you use unripe bananas, you banana nut bread will have very little banana flavor.
• Common Error # 3 – Using OLD chopped walnuts. Chopped walnuts go rancid quickly (spoil) as the natural fats in walnuts oxidize rapidly. Always use fresh chopped walnuts (from an unopened package) for the best results when making banana nut bread.
• Common Error # 4 – Not premixing or scraping the sides of the bread pan. If you do not premix/scrape, you are very likely to have flour stuck to the sides of the bread pan and banana bread. For more information, read the premixing/scraping tips lower down on the page.
• Common Error # 5 – Making a banana nut bread that is too big for your specific bread machine. If you do, the banana bread will come out underbaked. For example, some bread machines (e.g. the KBS 19-in-1 bread machine model # MBF-016) are better off making MY 1.5 lb banana bread (and underbake MY 2 lb banana bread).
• You can find more info on the loaf sizes that work best for your particular bread machine by visiting my Quick Bread Settings page and my Pan Sizes page.

• This recipe is a variation of my super popular Bread Machine Banana Bread Recipe. The major difference is that it uses vegetable oil (instead of butter) and includes 3/4 cup of chopped walnuts.
• Use RIPE bananas for the best results when making bread maker banana nut bread. If you use unripe green or hard yellow bananas, your banana nut bread will be bland or lack a lot of banana flavor.
• Unripe bananas have more starch and less sugar than ripe bananas. The natural sweetness of ripe bananas works best when making banana bread recipes. Ripe bananas are soft and have many small brown & black spots on the exterior of the yellow banana peel.
• FYI – A beautiful pure yellow banana (without any spots) is not fully ripe!!
• Use exactly 1 cup of mashed bananas when making this recipe for the best results. Other recipes that call for using a “number” of bananas (e.g. 3 bananas) may be too dry or too wet because bananas vary in size (maybe too dry if you use small bananas or too wet if you use extra large bananas). Always use a measuring cup or kitchen scale to measure your mashed bananas to avoid adding too much or too little moisture. You want to keep a successful recipe’s liquid-to-dry ingredients ratio the same every time to avoid baking “disasters” due to moisture imbalances!

• Use FRESH walnuts. After you have opened a bag of chopped walnuts, the walnuts can go rancid (bad) quickly due to their high fat content. Once the walnut package has been opened, you should store the chopped walnuts in an airtight container in your refrigerator or freezer. Do not use old walnuts that have been sitting in your pantry in an already opened bag. Also check the expiration date on sealed (unopened) walnut packages in order to make sure that they are still good.
• According to Wikipedia, “Walnuts without shells are 4% water, 15% protein, 65% fat, and 14% carbohydrates, including 7% dietary fiber”. Therefore, there is a lot of fat that can influence the taste of the chopped walnuts if the fat begins to spoil.
• If you run out of walnuts (or you are tired of walnut-based recipes), you can use chopped pecans as a nice substitute when making this bread maker banana nut bread.
• Just be aware that chopped pecans also spoil quickly. According to Wikipedia, a “pecan nut is 4% water, 72% fat, 9% protein, and 14% carbohydrates”. So also lots of fat that can go rancid if the chopped pecans are not new.
• Of course, walnuts & pecans also have lots of benefits such as antioxidants and omega-3. Moreover, they are crunchy and taste good!!!
• Visitors – What nuts do you like to use to make your banana nut breads? Chopped walnuts? Chopped pecans? Or something else? Please let everyone know what nuts you like to use & why in the comment section below.

• You should use a NEUTRAL flavored vegetable oil (e.g. corn or canola oil) in order to make this bread machine banana nut bread recipe.
• Stronger flavored oils (e.g. peanut oil or olive oil) may NEGATIVELY impact or change the taste of banana nut bread. You want to use an oil that has very little flavor (so it does not interfere with the banana flavor).
• If you want to use olive oil, I would recommend using “light” or “extra light” olive oil as they would have the least impact on the banana nut bread. Unfortunately, extra virgin and virgin olive oil have stronger flavors and are more likely to negatively impact the taste of your bread maker banana nut bread.
• You should also consider using fresh oil when baking as some oils spoil faster than others. Old oil can go rancid and taste bitter, stale, funky, etc. Old oil can leave a bad aftertaste in your baked goods.
• Oils also spoil faster when exposed to air (oxidation), light, heat, etc. Vegetable oils should be stored in a tightly sealed container and in a cool & dark pantry. Some people like to refrigerate their vegetable oils in order to extend their shelf life.

• Bread machine banana nut breads made with oil tend to taste slightly moister than banana nut breads made with butter. The main reason is that vegetable oil is a liquid at room temperature whereas butter turns back to a solid at room temperature. Therefore, the use of vegetable oil helps to create a moister banana nut bread.
• However, please feel free to use butter if you prefer a more buttery flavor (but slightly drier tasting) banana nut bread. Just use 1/2 cup of semi-melted unsalted butter instead of the 1/2 cup of vegetable oil.
• Economic Benefit – A number of our visitors have pointed out that it is cheaper (in some cases) to use basic vegetable oil instead of butter (on an ounce to ounce basis) to make bread maker banana nut bread. Therefore, bread maker banana nut bread recipes that use vegetable oil may help to lower your baking bills during times of economic uncertainty.

• Optional – You can easily turn this recipe into a chocolate chip banana nut bread by using 1/4 cup of MINI chocolate chips and 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts (instead of the 3/4 cup of chopped walnuts called for in the recipe above). Do not use regular-sized chocolate chips as they will sink to the bottom of the banana bread. Mini chocolate chips float better and will more evenly spread throughout the banana bread.
• Optional – Try adding 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon if you do not have super ripe bananas. The cinnamon flavor helps cover up the missing banana taste. As you know, riper bananas have more flavor.
• Optional – An easy way to boost the banana flavor of your banana bread is to replace the vanilla extract in this recipe with banana extract. Many people like to use banana extract when they are forced to use not fully ripe bananas (which have less banana flavor than ripe bananas). Other people also like to modify the taste of their banana bread by replacing the vanilla extract with almond extract, coconut extract, maple extract, etc.
• Visitors – Do you like to add any special ingredients to your banana nut breads? Chocolate chips? Fruit? Extra spices? Different extracts? Please post your banana nut bread variations & suggestions in the comment section below.

• Be aware that some bread machine models (especially older models & more basic bread makers) have only a limited number of settings and may NOT have a setting that can be used for sweet quick breads (e.g. banana bread). These bread machines are primarily focused on making sandwich-type breads & yeast-based dough (and not baking powder/soda recipes). For example, the Oster Expressbake Breadmaker, 2-lb. Loaf Capacity (model CKSTBRTW20NP) does not have a setting for banana breads (the “sweet” and “quick” settings on this model are used for yeast-based breads). However, other Oster models do have a quick bread/cake setting. In addition, the Breadman TR444 does not have a setting for quick breads but some of the more advanced Breadman bread machines such as the Breadman 2lb. Professional Bread Maker (model BK1050S) do have a quick bread setting. Always read your bread machine manual carefully in order to see if your specific bread machine model can make banana bread-type “quick breads” that use baking powder/soda (and NOT yeast). Check the setting and recipe sections of the manual for definitive examples. If your bread machine can’t make banana breads, you might like to try one of my oven-baked Banana Bread Recipes.
• Don’t be fooled by setting names like Rapid Bread or Express Bread that sound similar to Quick Bread (as these settings are often used for very rapid baking of yeast-based sandwich breads and are not used for sweet quick breads that use baking powder/soda). These express settings will leave your banana bread undercooked. For example, on my Sunbeam, the sweet quick bread setting lasts for roughly 1:40 hours versus the express setting which lasts for only 58 minutes.
• IMPORTANT – Be aware that some bread machine manufacturers even label the rapid/express sandwich bread setting as “Quick Bread”. This can cause a lot of confusion!! because they use the “quick bread” name in order to describe a setting that makes a rapid sandwich-type bread with yeast. This setting is not used to make a sweet quick bread recipe (such as banana bread) that uses baking powder/soda. In general, a setting used for yeast breads can’t be used to make quick bread recipes (such as banana bread) due to different rising & baking lengths.
• Moreover, in many bread machines, the “sweet bread” setting is used for sweet breads that use YEAST (not banana breads that use baking soda/powder). “Sweet bread” recipes are different from sweet quick bread recipes (e.g. banana bread) and utilize different rising & baking times. Therefore, a bread machine banana bread recipe is unlikely to work on the “sweet bread” setting.
• I know this can be super confusing… but always read your bread machine manual and look for the specific setting designed for banana breads & sweet quick breads (that use baking soda/powder and have lots of sugar & butter/oil in the recipe).

• Use FRESH ingredients (e.g. baking soda and flour) for the best results. For example, if you use stale baking soda and/or baking powder, your banana nut bread will not rise properly and will be too dense. Baking soda & powder is best if used within 6 months of opening the container.
• Ingredients such as flour & sugar should be stored in airtight containers in order to avoid contamination from moisture (in the air), dust, pests, etc. Airtight containers will also extend the shelf life of some ingredients (when compared to ingredients stored in open bags).
• This recipe uses all purpose flour and not bread flour. If you use bread flour to make this recipe, you will get a tougher and more rubbery bread maker banana nut bread. Bread flour is best for sandwich bread recipes. All purpose flour is best for softer “quick breads” that use baking soda/powder (such as banana nut bread & pumpkin bread) as well as cakes, cookies, etc.

• Flour sticking to the sides of your bread machine banana bread? Unfortunately, bread machines have a harder time mixing moister sweet quick bread recipes (versus drier sandwich bread dough). Therefore, after the first mixing cycle has fully stopped (and before the second & final mixing cycle has begun), I like to scrape the sides of the bread pan with a flexible silicon spatula (not a metal spatula). This loosens any flour that may be sticking to the sides of the bread pan (because a bread machine mixing “paddle” doesn’t quite reach the sides of the bread pan). For safety purposes, I do not scrape the sides of the bread pan when the mixing blade is moving. In addition, people should not stick their hands inside bread machines. Moreover, people should always wear oven mitts when dealing with a bread machine because the bread pan & bread machine interior can get quite hot.
• Nevertheless, ALWAYS follow the instructions included in the manufacturer’s manual for your specific bread machine in order to safely scrape the inside of your bread pan.
• Some people get around this issue by PREMIXING their ingredients. They will first mix all of the ingredients by hand in a mixing bowl and then add it to the bread machine bread pan (versus adding all of the ingredients to the bread pan and letting the bread machine mix everything). While this is an extra step, premixing the ingredients greatly reduces the potential for any unwanted small flour “clumps” and/or flour sticking to the sides of the finished banana bread. After hand mixing the ingredients, you should just follow the rest of the recipe instructions (e.g. enter proper bread machine settings and so on). However, always remember to add the ingredients (or hand mixed batter) to the bread pan when the bread pan is out of the bread machine and the bread machine is unplugged.
• If you premix the ingredients, you should consider removing the paddles from the bread pan (while the machine is unplugged and the pan is not in the machine). This will prevent the ingredients from being mixed potentially too much. Overmixing can lead to “gummier” banana breads. You also get the benefit of a much smaller paddle hole in the bottom of the banana bread (only from the paddle “pole”).

• After removing the bread pan from the bread machine (and the banana bread successfully passing the optional skewer test), you need to leave the banana bread in the bread pan for 10 minutes after you take it out of the bread machine. Denser & moister quick breads take a little longer for the interior dough to be fully baked.
• Long-term storage – If you want to keep your banana bread for more than 1-2 days (depending on your home’s temperature & humidity), you will need to freeze it. Please read Bread Dad’s How To Freeze Banana Bread for more details.

• If you would like to read my review of the bread machines that I own & use to create my bread machine recipes, please visit my Best Bread Machines page. It covers bread machines such as Briskind, Hamilton Beach and Zojirushi. The page provides my thoughts on the machines’ strengths and weaknesses.
• Please read the instructions/manual included with your bread machine in order to use it safely and effectively. Recipe instructions & settings may differ slightly depending on the brand & model of bread machine utilized.
• If you have a problem with a banana bread recipe, please make sure that you are following the recipe exactly. You will need to make sure that you are inputting the correct bread machine settings, using the exact ingredient measurements (e.g. don’t eyeball the measurements versus using a measuring cup), using the exact ingredients called for in the recipe (e.g. baking soda/powder versus yeast or all purpose flour versus bread flour), etc. Please don’t “wing” things with recipes unless you are willing to live with your experiments!

• If you like bread machine “quick bread” recipes, check out Bread Dad’s recipes for Pumpkin Bread, Cranberry Orange Bread, Gingerbread, Cornbread and Applesauce Bread.
• Or if you want to try some oven-baked banana nut breads, take a look at my recipes for Almond Banana Bread, Almond Flour Banana Nut Bread, Pecan Banana Bread and Walnut Banana Bread.
• Or if you like “smaller” baked goods, you might like my recipes for Banana Nut Muffins and Mini Banana Nut Bread.

• Always wear oven mitts/gloves when dealing with a bread machine. The bread pan and the rest of the bread machine can get very hot during the baking process. This means that the bread pan and bread machine is likely to be very hot when you attempt to remove a baked good from the bread machine and/or bread pan.
• As a reminder, do not serve this banana nut bread to anyone with a nut allergy. Always check your guests, friends & family for potential food allergies.
• For more easy bread machine recipes (e.g. super soft white bread, pizza dough, cornbread, French bread and whole wheat bread), please visit Bread Dad’s main Bread Machine Recipes section.

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