Instant Pot Banana Bread Recipe (2024)

FAQs

Can I put a loaf pan in an instant pot? ›

Cover the loaf pans with foil. Place one of the loaf pans on top of the wire rack (trivet) inside the instant pot. 9. Place lid on instant pot and use manual setting to place it on high for 60 minutes.

Fight the urge to use more banana than called for in your recipe. Using too much banana could make your bread heavy and damp in the center, causing it to appear undercooked and unappealing. If you have bananas leftover, you can always freeze them for later use.

You can double a standard banana bread recipe, as long as you bake the batter in two same-size loaf pans, or one after the other.

The Instant Pot can gently steam and bake with ease — and keep you from heating up the oven when you want a sweet treat. Instant Pot desserts are their own particular brand of delicious — so you don't want to try taking your favorite cheesecake recipe and throwing it on high pressure for 20 minutes.

Not only that—Instant Pots can slow cook, roast, bake, steam, air fry, and dehydrate countless ingredients, helping to create some of the most tasty and memorable dishes.

Bake for longer: If the center of your banana bread is still gooey, you may need to bake it for a longer time. Check the bread every 5-10 minutes by inserting a toothpick into the center. If it comes out with moist crumbs, continue baking until the toothpick comes out clean or with a few dry crumbs.

Excess moisture (when compared to the recipe's dry ingredients) means a greater potential for banana bread to sink in the middle. Recipes that provide you with the exact amount of mashed bananas by measuring cup (e.g. 1 ½ cups of mashed bananas) or by weight (e.g. grams) tend to have fewer problems.

Our Favorite Alternative to Toothpicks

Look at your knife set and find the one with the thinnest blade. Then insert the blade into the center of the cake. If the knife comes out clean, the cake is done. If batter or crumbs stick to the blade, let your cake bake a few minutes more and retest with a clean knife.

You may find banana bread delicious, but conventional banana breads tend to be high in added sugar, refined carbs, and calories. Thus, it's best to enjoy banana bread occasionally as part of a balanced, nutrient-dense diet.

If they smell off, that's another good indicator that they are no longer okay to use. Rotten bananas will often have a fermented or alcohol-like smell. While it's okay if the banana peel is dark brown or even black, if the inside is too, then the fruit is beyond ripe and now on its way to rotten.

Why does my banana bread taste bitter? ›

Our answer

Bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) is the raising agent and this can sometimes taste bitter or soapy if the wrong quantity is used.

Bake until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean or a digital thermometer inserted into the center reads 200-205°F, about 55 to 65 minutes. Cool in the pan on a cooling rack for 15 minutes before removing the loaf from the pan to finish cooling completely.

Did you know that you can make this batter the night before, and bake it fresh in the morning? Just leave out the banana and add it in the morning to prevent browning. Banana bread freezes well, just cool it completely before wrapping.

It should come out clean or with a few “dry” crumbs. It should not be coated in wet or moist batter. Keep in mind that if you end up checking if the bread is done multiple times, opening and closing the oven will reduce the oven temperature and prolong the overall time needed to bake the banana bread.

Step 1: Pick the Right Pan

Both sizes are too large to fit in a standard 6-quart Instant Pot. You'll need a 6-inch round cake pan like this one. Six-inch cake pans are available in many baking stores, online here, and you can use them for far more than Instant Pot recipes! I actually love this smaller-size pan.

And "loaf pans and tube pans are a little interchangeable," says Medrich, "because they are both deep and aren't wide and expansive, but then you have to compare how much volume they hold."

You will first need to find a 6 or 7 inch oven-safe dish that fits nicely inside of your 6 quart Instant Pot so that you can cook ”pot in pot”! This will allow you to do marvelous things like assemble casseroles, bake cake, make frittatas, and much more!