This easy butterscotch banana bread recipe is a tasty combination of a traditional banana bread and buttery sweet butterscotch. Kids love it! The butterscotch taste really complements the banana flavor. It is definitely a great change of pace from “boring” regular banana bread.
Stir Butterscotch Chips into the Banana Bread Batter
We made this banana bread because we had some leftover butterscotch chips after we made our fantastic butterscotch chocolate chip cookies. We didn’t realize how good this banana bread would be. It is moist and delicious! This banana bread recipe is simple & easy to make. It should take you roughly 10-15 minutes to prepare and clean up.
Ingredients – Butterscotch Banana Bread Recipe
- 8 Tablespoons – Butter (softened)
- 2 – Large Eggs
- 3 – Bananas (ripe & large sized) – roughly 1 1/2 cups of mashed bananas
- 2 Cups – Flour (all purpose flour)
- 1 Cup – Granulated White Sugar
- 1 Teaspoon – Vanilla Extract
- 1 Teaspoon – Baking Soda
- 1 Teaspoon – Baking Powder (aluminum free)
- 1/2 Teaspoon – Salt
- 1 Cup – Butterscotch Chips (morsels)
Servings – Roughly 12 slices
Equipment – Measuring cup & spoons, mixing bowl, long wooden spoon, 9 by 5 bread pan, oven mitts, silicon spatula, cooling rack and an oven.
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Finished Product – Delicious Butterscotch Banana Bread
Instructions – Butterscotch Banana Bread Recipe
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Mash bananas with a fork.
- Soften butter in a microwave for 20-25 seconds.
- Stir eggs, bananas and butter together.
- Mix in remaining ingredients (except the butterscotch chips). Stir until fully mixed.
- Add the butterscotch chips after the batter has been completely mixed.
- Pour batter into a nonstick bread pan.
- Bake in the oven for 70 minutes.
- Take out of oven and let the banana bread cool down in the bread pan for 10 minutes. Do not remove the banana bread from the bread pan during this 10 minute cool down period. Use oven mitts as the bread pan will be very hot coming out of the oven.
- After 10 minutes, remove the banana bread from the bread pan. Place the banana bread on a cooling rack in order to completely cool. This cool down may take 1-2 hours. Gently slide a silicon spatula between the banana bread and the bread pan walls if the banana bread is stuck in the pan.
- Please read the tips section below for extra information on how to make this recipe successfully & to avoid common banana bread problems.
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Tips – Butterscotch Banana Bread Recipe
- The tips below are designed to help banana bread “novices” and/or people with limited baking experience.
- Use RIPE bananas for the best flavor. Ripe bananas are soft and usually yellow with small black spots. Hard yellow/green(ish) bananas are too starchy and have less banana flavor.
- Make sure to use 3 large bananas (not 3 medium bananas). Otherwise, the banana bread might turn out to be a little dry.
- In case, you like to use cups versus banana “sizes”… 3 medium-sized bananas equal roughly 1 to 1 1/4 cups of mashed bananas (not sliced bananas). 3 large-sized bananas equal roughly 1 1/3 to 1 2/3 cups of mashed bananas (not sliced bananas). Of course, banana sizes can vary greatly… and my version of medium and large-sized bananas may differ from yours!
- Variation – If butterscotch is too sweet for your family, you can make a 50/50 mix of butterscotch chips and semi-sweet chocolate chips. I find that semi-sweet chocolate helps to tone down the overall sweetness of the butterscotch.
- Optional – You can also change the flavor & texture of your butterscotch banana bread by adding chopped walnuts or chopped pecans to this recipe. Instead of using 1 cup of butterscotch chips, you could use 1/2 cup of chopped pecans and 1/2 cup of butterscotch chips in order to make a delicious butterscotch banana nut bread. Our thanks to Denise for this great idea!
- Optional – For an even richer flavor and a little more moistness, some people like to use a 50/50 blend of light brown sugar and white granulated sugar when making butterscotch banana bread (so you would use 1/2 packed cup of light brown sugar and 1/2 cup of white granulated sugar).
- Butterscotch has a lower melting point than semi-sweet chocolate chip. Therefore, it is more likely to melt and stick to your bread pan. Consider “greasing” your bread pan with butter, vegetable oil or cooking spray (even if the pan is non-stick) because the butterscotch chips may stick to the bread pan after melting during the baking process. Melted butterscotch chips can sometimes make it difficult to get the banana bread out of the bread pan without breaking (unless the bread pan has been greased). When greasing the pan, please give extra attention to the bottom of the bread pan (which is hard to reach with a soft flexible spatula).
- You can also try using baking parchment paper to line your bread pan if you have a problem with the butterscotch sticking to the bottom of the bread pan. Baking parchment paper allows you to more easily lift the banana bread out of the pan. In addition, you are less likely to smudge the top of the banana bread when using baking parchment paper (there is no flipping the bread pan upside down in order to get the banana bread out).
- I would suggest NOT sprinkling butterscotch chips on top of the batter. If you sprinkle butterscotch chips on the top of the batter before you put the banana bread in the oven, they are more likely to melt in the oven and not retain their shape. You are likely to end up with a messy top. Butterscotch chips do better inside the batter.
- As you know, butterscotch is a tasty ingredient used in many cookies, cakes and candies. Moreover, according to Wikipedia, “Butterscotch is a type of confectionery whose primary ingredients are brown sugar and butter, but other ingredients are part of some recipes, such as corn syrup, cream, vanilla, and salt. The earliest known recipes, in mid-19th century Yorkshire, used treacle (molasses) in place of or in addition to sugar. Butterscotch is similar to toffee, but for butterscotch, the sugar is boiled to the soft crack stage, not hard crack as with toffee.”
- This doesn’t happen often but if the top of the banana bread looks too moist or under cooked, you should try the “toothpick test”. Gently push a toothpick into the top of the bread and see if any batter sticks to the toothpick. If batter is sticking to the toothpick then it hasn’t completely cooked. Place the bread pan back into the still hot oven for another 2 or 3 minutes. Make sure to wear oven gloves because the bread pan will be very hot. After the 2 or 3 minutes, remove the bread pan and test the banana bread again with a tooth pick.
- If you have a problem with a banana bread recipe, please make sure that you are following the recipe exactly (i.e. using the correct oven temperature), using the correct amounts of ingredients (i.e. don’t eyeball the measurements versus using a measuring cup or accidentally add a tablespoon when a teaspoon is called for), using the correct ingredients (i.e. baking soda/powder versus yeast or all purpose flour versus bread flour), etc. Please don’t “wing” things with recipes.
- In addition, you should always try to use relatively fresh baking soda & powder for the best results. For example, using baking soda from an open container (that has been deodorizing your refrigerator for months) may lead to subpar results. Old & hard baking soda/powder may lead to rising problems and/or leave small bitter clumps in your banana bread.
- Always wear oven mitts/gloves when dealing with a hot oven and bread pan.
- For more easy banana bread recipes (i.e. blueberry, cranberry, chocolate chip, vegan, oatmeal, etc.), please visit Bread Dad’s main Banana Bread Recipes section.
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Butterscotch Banana Bread – Questions & Answers
Can you add butterscotch chips to banana bread?
Yes. You can easily add butterscotch chips to banana bread. The butterscotch adds a buttery caramel/brown sugar flavor to banana breads. Some people also like to combine butterscotch chips and semi-sweet chocolate chips when making banana bread in order to tone down the sweetness of the butterscotch. However, since butterscotch chips melt very easily, they should be only added to the interior of the banana bread. In my opinion, butterscotch chips should not be added to the exterior of a banana bread before baking because they will melt & run. Very messy.
Reference Sources
- Wikipedia, Banana Bread, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_bread
- Wikipedia, Butterscotch, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterscotch
Butterscotch Banana Bread Recipe
Ingredients
- 8 Tablespoons Butter (softened)
- 2 Eggs (large)
- 3 Bananas (ripe & large sized)
- 2 Cups Flour (all purpose flour)
- 1 Cup Granulated White Sugar
- 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder (aluminum free)
- 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
- 1 Cup Butterscotch Chips (morsels)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Mash bananas with a fork.
- Soften butter in a microwave for 20-25 seconds.
- Stir eggs, bananas and butter together.
- Mix in remaining ingredients (except the butterscotch chips). Stir until fully mixed.
- Add the butterscotch chips after the batter has been completely mixed.
- Pour batter into a nonstick bread pan.
- Bake in the oven for 70 minutes.
- Take out of oven and let the banana bread cool down in the bread pan for 10 minutes. Do not remove the banana bread from the bread pan during this 10 minute cool down period. Use oven mitts as the bread pan will be very hot coming out of the oven.
- After 10 minutes, remove the banana bread from the bread pan. Place the banana bread on a cooling rack in order to completely cool. This cool down may take 1-2 hours. Gently slide a silicon spatula between the banana bread and the bread pan walls if the banana bread is stuck in the pan.
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