This easy banana bread is sure to be a new favorite.

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Moist, fluffy banana cake is a timeless favorite.

Here, learn how to make easy one-bowl banana bread.

Southern Living One Bowl Banana Bread sliced on a plate to serve with a cup of tea

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Plus, learn more fun ways to personalize it to your favorite flavors.

Here’s a quick rundown:

Which Bananas Are Best for Banana Bread?

Banana bread is the perfect way to use up overripe bananas that are languishing in your kitchen.

Southern Living One Bowl Banana Bread ingredients

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In fact, the deep yellow bananas with lots of brown speckles are the ideal bananas for banana bread.

They mash up and mix well with the other ingredients, too.

(In other words, you don’t need a mixer.)

Southern Living One Bowl Banana Bread sliced on a cutting board

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When you thaw them, they’re just right for another loaf.

After you bake a loaf, you could store it at room temperature up to 4 days.

Place a paper towel in an airtight container, and sit the loaf on top of the towel.

Southern Living One Bowl Banana Bread preparing the pan with parchement

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Add another paper towel on top of the loaf, and shut the container.

This will help keep the bread moist while it’s stored.

To freeze banana bread, we recommend slicing it, then wrapping and freezing individual slices.

Southern Living One Bowl Banana Bread whisking together wet ingredients

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Warm gently in the microwave if you want that just-baked feeling.

If you know you want to freeze a whole loaf, be sure to let it cool completely.

Wrap the loaf in plastic wrap, then aluminum foil.

Southern Living One Bowl Banana Bread adding the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients

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Label it and be sure to note the date.

Banana bread can be stored up to 6 months in the freezer.

Coat parchment paper with cooking spray.

Southern Living One Bowl Banana Bread batter in the loaf pan

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Pour batter into prepared pan.

Let cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes.

Using parchment paper overhang, lift from pan, and transfer to a wire rack.

Southern Living One Bowl Banana Bread baked in pan on cooling rack

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Let cool completely, about 1 hour.

They’ll just need to cook longer to be baked through.

southern living one-bowl banana bread loaf on a wooden cutting board

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