Starbucks Banana Walnut Bread to enjoy with a cup of coffee at Starbucks. Starbucks Banana Walnut Bread is one of my life’s little pleasures. Freshly baked Starbucks banana bread is hard to beat. Starbucks Banana walnut bread isn’t difficult to make. You can make banana walnut bread that will taste just like Starbucks.
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Starbucks Food Menu
This coffeehouse is everyone’s favorite coffee shop and there’s one or more in every neighborhood. If you want a tasty something to go with your grande cappuccino, Starbucks offers some delicious bread and cakes.
The menu has classic coffee cake, cinnamon swirl coffee cake, pumpkin bread, caramelized apple pound cake, iced lemon pound cake, double chocolate chunk brownie, and my favorite banana walnut bread.
A Delicious Banana Nut Treat
Starbucks banana walnut bread is one of my life’s little pleasures. Combine this delicious, moist bread with a perfect Starbucks venti caffè latte to make a bigger pleasure. Freshly baked banana walnut bread is hard to beat, and you can enjoy it freshly baked any time if you make it at home. It’s not difficult to make, and it will taste just like Starbucks. In fact, it will be even fresher because you can enjoy this banana walnut bread while it’s still warm out of the oven.
Best Flour for Banana Bread
By using bread flour if you have it on hand, as it gives the bread a more dense, chewier texture. If you don’t have bread flour in your cupboard, you can use all-purpose flour, and the banana walnut bread will still turn out just fine.
About the Bananas
Improve on Starbucks banana walnut bread by using bananas that are overripe as the overripeness definitely enhances the flavor. It’s a very good way to use up those bananas that have been lying around because you’ve forgotten all about them.
They look unappealing in their brown spotted skin, but they’re perfect for making banana bread. If you don’t have overripe bananas, you can use regular ones, but they won’t make the bread taste quite as good.
Enjoy Starbucks? Be sure to try these other great copycat recipes
- Flat White
- Caramel Macchiato
- Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte
- DIY Starbucks Frappuccinos – Caramel
- Starbucks Hot Chocolate Recipe – Snickerdoodle
- Cafe Mocha Recipe
- Egg Bites
- Starbucks Breakfast Sandwiches
- Starbucks Spinach & Feta Breakfast Wrap
- Starbucks Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins
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Starbucks Banana Walnut Bread
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour bread flour is recommended
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup mashed ripe bananas this is usually 2 or 3 bananas
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup margarine
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 2 egg
- 1 cup chopped walnuts divided use
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium-size bowl combine all dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt), stir together to combine. In another medium-size bowl combine margarine and sugar, with a mixer cream the margarine, and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add in mashed bananas, eggs, milk and mix well.
- Add 1/2 of the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, mix until the flour is just mixed in, then add in the remaining flour and 1/2 cup walnuts, blend together until everything is mixed together.
- Do not over stir. Pour batter into a greased 8x4 inch loaf pan. Then top the batter with the remaining chopped walnuts. Bake at 350 degrees for 55 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
- Cool for 10 minutes on a wire rack. While Starbucks does not make their banana bread with butter, I think this comes out richer this way. I also like to add in a sprinkle or two of cinnamon and sugar into this, again, not in their recipe, it does add that little something extra.
Jerry
Super !!’ Thanks
Anonymous
This banana bread turned out awful. There was no sweetness to it at all
stephaniemanley
Did you add the sugar? It actually has quite a bit of sugar in it.
Lisa
I thought it was plenty sweet. The bananas add some sweetness and it is a bread, not cupcakes.
Krysty
I varied in this recipe a bit:
I added in hazlenuts, walnuts, and almonds
I added in 1/4 cup of brown sugar
2 TBS cinnamon
Real butter
Heavy Cream
It made it very fluffy and moist
Stephanie
I bet your bread was heavenly!
stephaniemanley
Thank you for your suggestions. I am sure your bread is very tasty.
Krysty
Did you use salted walnuts? Make sure to either have fresh walnuts or baking walnuts to get rid of the salty taste
Stephanie
I always use plain raw nuts.
Camlin
I decided to make this recipe vegan friendly (given I am vegan). I used Ener-G to substitute for eggs. I followed the instructions on the box to make the equivalent of 2 eggs. For the margarine, I used virgin coconut oil and substituted plain soy milk for the cow’s milk. I changed nothing else except I had slightly more than one cup of mashed ripe banana. I must say…..this turned out quite delish! It is very moist and just the right amount of sweetness. I think people who are having trouble with this bread not being moist enough, are possibly over mixing the batter. You want to mix just enough to get the dry ingredients wet, and not one stroke more. I never had Starbucks banana bread because it doesn’t comply with my dietary restrictions. I don’t feel like I’m missing out at all. I will definitely add this recipe to my favorites list. Thanks!
Carinasolsol
I have made many diferente recipes, so far this is the best recipe…it come out really good
Annette
This is a very different recipe than the other Starbuck’s banana bread recipes found online. It looks like a good recipe. I wonder which recipe is the one that the coffee shop actually uses. Your cooking time/temp seems much more reasonable than the other Starbucks Banana Bread recipes I’ve found online.
dianne
very much like mine-except I use 1/3 C Truvia sugar & 2 1/2 Tbs sour cream instead of milk–and I make mine in 2 small 5 x 7 loaf pans for 50 mins-really good-and you can throw in 1/2 c mini choc chips if you’re feeling splurgy
William Brians
Starbucks adds lots of poison additives.
Guest
would it turn out the same without baking powder and just baking soda?
stephaniemanley
No, I don’t thinks so.
Joyelle
What a neat atirlce. I had no inkling.
Rochelle
Go to the Betty Crocker site and type in Banana Bread in their search engine. It is the best of the best – very most.
karen
this recipe is so good i made one and loved it, this recipe is so so good try it i paid 2.00 a slice for mine when i went to starbucks mine i made was just as good thanks and enjoy!!!!!
ClosetChef
Can this be made with whole wheat flour?
You could try making this with whole wheat flour, I have not tested this recipe with whole wheat flour. My guess is that this would need some dough enhancer or it may not raise much.
Tange
Put banana jello mix in the recipe and the bread would be nice and moist
Rosie
I make it moist simply by squeezing a little bit of honey on top of the batter right before it goes in the oven 🙂 hope it helps!
KimmyG
I made this last night, and it was GREAT! better than STARBUCKS, lol. Mine was moist and I used 3 medium bananas.(very ripe) thanks! Im making 2 more today!
mary day
hi, i tried your recipe and i just love it! although when i had my husband taste it he said it can be more moist.. hmp talk about raining on my parade huh.. anyway any idea how to add a little more moisture in the bread thanks a lot again!
Stephanie
Adding say another half of a banana could help.
Byoggy Nuts
This is the kind of recipe I was looking for. Thanks for sharing.
Deviled
I have never been to a Starbucks but this recipe does sound delish! My recipe I use all the time has sour cream in it, I guess for moisture? I’m always will to try a new banana bread recipe, I love the stuff!
Hazel
I have made banana bread for years now with or without walnuts and its always amazing and moist. I use a half cup of butter milk (banana flavored, natural and even strawberry!) The recipe is in Betty Crockers cook book. It has never failed me and always is very accepted for any event!
Mrs. Johnny
I just made this banana walnut bread and it was really easy to put together but it didn’t come out as moist as I would’ve wanted it to be. Everyone seemed to have liked it but I dont’t think it was very sweet or had enough bananas. I’ll make it again but I’ll definitley change a few things.
admin
So often Banana’s vary in their flavor, moisture, and volume. It is a vary hard to thing to compensate for. Something I will do is tend to over add on the bananas if I have a half of one left over after I finish measuring everything.
Fatima
try doubling the amount of bananas and ading honey and brown sugar to the batter…also a half cup of instant pudding will help it be moist. Also use bananas that are completely dark…this gives maximum banana flavor.