Instant Pot Banana Nut Bread is a fluffy and moist quick bread. The delicious aroma of bananas and warm spices will fill your home.

Instant Pot Banana Nut Bread

Banana Bread is one of those sweets that just about everyone loves. Jan Borden Freeman is a wonderful baker, as a result of her Grandma Mills teaching her to bake when she was in her 20’s.

Jan purchased an Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cooker last year and has been cooking up a storm. Her most favorite and prized recipe from her Grandma is her Grandma Mills’ Banana Nut Bread. She realized that baked goods were not only possible in a pressure cooker, but they come out very moist and delicious.

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Ingredients for Instant Pot Banana Nut Bread

All Purpose Flour
Bananas
Butter
Sugar
Baking Soda
Sea Salt
Walnuts – totally optional

Pro Tip: Chocolate Chips can be added in addition to walnuts or in place of.

Nordic Ware 6-Cup Bundt Pan

Type of Pan for Banana Nut Bread

My recommendation is to use this Nordic Ware 6 cup Bundt Pan so that the bread cooks up light and fluffy without any dense centers.
A round cake pan or 6 inch Fat Daddio’s Push Pan can be used as well, but you will need to add about five minutes to the cook time. The center of the banana bread may be denser with this type of pan.

Instant Pot Banana Nut Bread

If you have ever cooked a meal in your Instant Pot and then made a dessert, you will know that sometimes the dessert will pick up the flavor of what you just cooked.

How To Keep Desserts from Taking on Flavor of Savory Recipes

If you have just cooked a savory recipe like Instant Pot Classic Pot Roast in your Instant Pot, you may notice that the silicone gasket/seal smells like beef, carrots and rosemary.
My recommendation is to buy extra silicone seals and use one for one for sweets, one for savory and one for recipes which are very fragrant like my incredible Instant Pot Butter Chicken recipe.

Don’t Scoop from the Container or Bag of Flour

Baked goods are different than cooking. There is a science and in some cases if you don’t follow an instruction, the dessert won’t turn out as planned. For instance, my very popular Instant Pot New York Cheesecake, which is the BEST Instant Pot Cheesecake around can be easily ruined IF you over beat the eggs. One simple thing, don’t over beat the eggs. That one little instruction can cause your cheesecake to rise like a souffle while cooking and then fall while cooling. The cheesecake comes out spongy and eggy. For cakes in the Instant Pot, there are only two important instructions to follow (other than the ingredients) to make a perfect light, springy and soft cake.

Soft and Fluffy Banana Bread

Read my article on How to Properly Measure Flour. Seriously, if you don’t read anything else in this post, read that article.
There is a right way and a wrong way to measure your flour. If you simply scoop out flour from the bag, you may be actually packing in too much. This will lead to a very dense bread.
When mixing up quick breads like Banana Nut Bread, it is important not to over mix.
Toss the ingredients into your mixing bowl and gently combine them together. Stop mixing once all ingredients are incorporated

Pro Tip: Proper measurement of Flour is essential! Your bread will end up rubbery or like a brick if the batter is over mixed and/or the flour is not properly measured.

Add the rest of the dry ingredients to the Flour

So, now that you know How to Properly Measure Flour, measure out the two cups of Flour. You did read that article, right????

Okay, then, add the rest of the dry ingredients into the Medium Mixing Bowl and beat just until combined. Do not over work your batter. Doing so will cause a very heavy and dense bread.

If using walnuts or your favorite nut, gently fold them in now and combine by hand. If you want to use Chocolate Chips, hand fold them in now.

Pressure Cooker Grandma Mills’ Banana Nut Bread, Bundt Style

In a Medium Mixing Bowl, add butter, sugar and eggs. Using a Hand Mixer, beat until combined. Make sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl. There should be no sugar granules left in the bowl.

Place bananas in a Small Mixing Bowl and mash well. Add the mashed bananas to the butter, eggs, sugar mixture and gently beat to combine.

Pour the Batter into a Cake Pan

Delicious Add Ins to Banana Nut Bread

Dried Cranberries
Chocolate Chips
Raisins
Coconut Flakes

Pro Tip: This Banana Nut Bread doesn’t even need any extra add ins as it is delicious as written.

Place Pan into Pressure Cooker

Baking desserts in the Instant Pot is easy and convenient. No need to preheat an oven and the Instant Pot can be plugged in anywhere there is an outlet.

We also love this Simply Delicious Buttermilk Banana Bread. It is an oven recipe, but can easily be cooked in the pressure cooker too!

Banana Bread will rise quite a bit

Tips and Tricks for Instant Pot Banana Nut Bread

A 6 cup Bundt Pan works best.
If you don’t measure the Flour properly, you WILL end up with a rubber/brick Banana Bread. Please read my article How to Properly Measure Flour.
Over working the batter will cause a dense and heavy bread.
Allow the pressure to release for a bit. Grandma Mill’s Banana Nut Bread will rise nicely.
Allow it to cool, before slicing.

Pressure Cooker Grandma Mills’ Banana Nut Bread, Bundt Style

Banana Nut Bread will be nice and spongy and airy! Try a smear of cream cheese on a slice. Even peanut butter is delicious.

More Instant Pot Dessert Recipes to Make:

Enjoy this recipe from the oven or from the Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cooker.

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Instant Pot Grandma Mills’ Banana Nut Bread

Instant Pot Banana Nut Bread [Grandma Mills Recipe]