I sure eat a lot of bananas for someone who doesn’t like bananas. That’s what I was telling myself when I woke up yesterday morning with a hankering for some banana bread.
I blame Brutus’s mom.
We were out to dinner the other night (with Peyton Manning) and she asked me if I had a healthy banana bread recipe I would share with her.
I had a really good one from the Babycakes cookbook, but it involved a lot of different flours that I no longer had in the pantry.
So I woke up yesterday and made a healthyish version of my own. Here you go, Erika (or Brutus’ mom…which do you prefer?)
Banana-Oat Bread
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- 1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1/2 c sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/4 c water
- 1 1/2 c mashed banana (about 3 medium)
- 1 c whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/2 c all-purpose flour
- 1 c rolled oats
- 2 t baking powder
- 1/2 t salt
- 1/2 t baking soda
- 1 t vanilla
Cream butter and sugar. Add egg and mix thoroughly.
Combine the flours, baking powder, soda and salt. Stir in the oats.
Combine the water and the mashed bananas. Then alternatingly add the flour mixture and the banana mixture. Mix thoroughly. Stir in vanilla.
Bake in a parchment lined bread pan (mine always stick if I don’t) at 350 degrees for 1 hour.
Remove from pan, let cool, then slice and enjoy!
It turned out exceptionally well…and that’s coming from someone who doesn’t even like bananas. Sort of.
This bread looks ridiculously fluffy and moist…. my quick breads always turn out so dense! Really looks lovely! are there supposed to be oats in the recipe??
Ahh! The oats. Haha…thanks for pointing it out. I must have been sleeping when I was writing up the post. It has been changed!!
What has changed about the oats? I still see it in the recipe. I HOPE it’s in the recipe because that sounds fab!
I left it out the first time.
It’s definitely supposed to be there!
Yay!!! I have to give you props for getting your posts up so early haha I’m completely incapable of writing early in the morning.
It does look amazing! I was wondering the same thing as Sarah about the oats.
Your Peyton Manning post made me giggle, btw.
i. love. banana bread.
And I had to laugh at that comment above – I do that ALL the time!
Ohhh my gosh, does that look fantastic!!! So thick…and fluffly…and and soft. WANT!
This looks very yummy!
You forgetting the oats in this makes me feel better about forgetting the tempeh in my “Tempeh Sandwich” this morning…ha!
This looks awesome. I love a good banana bread but my husband is part monkey and we never seem to have bananas leftover or ripe enough for it!
Ahaha, that makes me feel better for sure! Now I’m going to check out your tempeh sandwich…
Yum!! I love banana bread, but I think of myself as a mediocre baker, however this recipe seems doable! Maybe I’ll go dig up my baking gloves!
Very easy…I know you can handle it.
mmmmmmm so delicious!!!
That looks SO good!!! I’m trying to think of an excuse to make it…
No excuse…just do it.
That looks so delicious. And what do you know I think I have some ripe bananas at home. I was going to make muffins tomorrow since my aunt and uncle are staying over tomorrow night, do you think the bread would work well as a muffin recipe. I don’t think I have a bread pan…
Yes!! Might be less cooking time…I’d check them after like 30 minutes just so they don’t burn. Good luck!!
Thanks so much! I’ll definitely give it a try…
I only like bananas in smoothies. And they have to be frozen. Oh wait, and on a banana pb sandwich.
Maybe I like bananas too.
I always say I hate them and then find like 25 amendments to that statement. We’re two peas in a pod…or bananas in a peel. Weird.
This looks great–so nice and fluffy-looking! The recipe I tweaked calls for melted butter, which is good for me since I usually don’t have the patience to wait for it to soften haha…but if I ever do, I will give this one a try!
I put mine in the oven while it’s preheating (and set a timer for like 5 minutes or else I forget about it)
Oh why didn’t I think of that! Yes I definitely would need a timer, too, or else I’d be going back to the melted butter recipe for sure!!
Ha ha! Im the same about chocolate. Im always like ‘ I am SO not a chocolate person. But then I do like chocolate ice cream and I LOVE brownies and I once had this really amazing chocoalte cake and I often like having a little dark chocolate after dinner and then of course if someone says white chocoalte it’s game over….’
Have a great weekend Katie! xoxo
I just made this! I saw it this morning and wanted banana bread the rest of the day! Since I have to eat gluten free, I used my usual gluten free flour mix and it worked splendidly! My family and I just ate 3/4 of the loaf
Thanks for the yummy recipe!
Have a great weekend!
im confused by the oats. when do you add them? with the butter and sugar or later with the flours?
I added them after the butter/sugar where creamed…but I don’t think it would really matter. I’ll change the recipe to make it more clear…
Just found your blog and it’s so beautiful! I’m not a fan of banana bread at all, but this looks too good to pass up! May have to try it out this weekend. Thanks for the tip!
Mmm, there’s nothing like a slice of warm banana bread schmeared with butter for breakfast! You just reminded me that I wanted to make some this weekend…luckily I have like 5 pounds of bananas in the freezer (yeah, there was a HUGE sale) on the ready for whenever the banana bread bug bites! …wow, say that three times fast!
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Yum, this looks so dense and moist! I have an obsession with banana bread, it is the best bread out there!
I like knowing that other people wake up craving banana bread. And that you put oats in yours!
Banana bread is, by far, one of my favorite ways to eat bananas – followed closely with bananas and peanut butter! When I was little I absolutely hated bananas (I remember my Mom actually forcing me to take a bite once.) but now I love them! This bread looks fabulous, Katie!
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Just made this bread first thing this morning. I did a few modifications but just wanted to let you know it was outstanding! I put a nice layer of almond butter after my run on it and it hit the spot. Thanks!
Hooray! Thanks for letting me know – that almond butter layer sounds PERFECT.
This looks fantastic! I might try a version tomorrow and use coconut palm sugar instead of white. Will let you know how it turns out!
Yes, please do!
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Weirdest thing I am going to bake this right now and printed the recipe but it didn’t include how much oats on the print out version so of course I panicked but came back to your site and it stated how much oats… can’t wait to bake and taste this yummy bread!