When the weather starts to get cold, (it snowed here yesterday) I love to stay in my warm house and bake. There’s nothing better than the smell of warm, fresh banana bread!
Lately, we’ve constantly had a bunch of overripe bananas sitting in the fruit bowl. I usually buy our bananas at Costco, and I swear, they only have two stages — green and overripe. No matter how green I buy them, they are super ripe in just a couple days. I think I need to take a break from buying them. Give it some time. Make bananas a novelty again.
With all those bananas, I end up making 4-6 loaves of banana bread every week. I decided to try adding some greek yogurt to my basic recipe to up the protein a little bit, and it turned out amazing. It makes the bread moist and delicious. I’ve never had a dry, crumbly loaf since.
This bread also freezes well. I’ve also made it into muffins and put them in the freezer. My kids can pop one in the microwave for 15-20 seconds for a quick breakfast.
I still want to experiment with making it with other types of flours. I tried coconut flour but it was crumbly and didn’t hold together well. I think I’ll try a mix of almond flour and oat flour next. I’ll let you know how it goes.
- 2 cups flour
- 3/4 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup butter
- 2 eggs
- 3 ripe mashed bananas
- 1/3 cup plain greek yogurt
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt, stirring with a whisk.
- Place sugar and butter in a large bowl, and mix until well blended
- Add the eggs, banana, yogurt and vanilla.
- Add flour mixture; mix until blended.
- Spoon batter into two loaf pans coated with cooking spray.
- Bake at 350° for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool 10 minutes in pan on a wire rack; remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack.
- Optional: Add chocolate chips or nuts. In the photo, I added mini chocolate chips.
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Yum this sounds so good! I love Banana Bread. I came over from the DBB.
Emily
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I LITERALLY have “Look up a good banana bread recipe” on my list of things to do today because I have 3 ripe bananas just sitting there! Pinning and sharing!!
Glad you found me! I hope you like it.
I want to go buy bananas right now!! I bake with greek yogurt a lot, so this is perfect. Thank you so much for sharing!
Maggie
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If you were close, I’d give you some. I think I have about 18 sitting on my counter right now. They are going black and making me feel guilty.
YUM!!! I love banana bread, I will have to try this recipe! Looks so good 🙂 Pinned to make for later.
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This looks delish and pin for my Group’s Board. Have always wanted to try fruit bread. From DBB and have a nice day.
Thanks for pinning, Kenneth. 🙂
This sounds really good, thanks for sharing at Talking Tuesday!
You had me at banana bread! I never even thought of making it with Greek Yogurt. Thanks for opening my mind!
You’re welcome. I think you’ll like it how moist it makes the bread. Thanks for stopping by.
I had some bananas on their way out, so I looked up a banana bread recipe. I love baking with Greek yogurt, so this one caught my eye. I added (spur of the moment idea) a teaspoon on real maple syrup, sprinkle of cinnamon, and a just a bit of coconut flakes. I can’t see these minor additions messing up the bread. It sounded good to me at the time…usually when I alter a recipe, it’s not for the best!! LOL. Thanks!!
That sounds yummy! Let me know how it turns out.
I love this recipe! Thanks for stopping by my very first Link Up party. I need to get organized and make a list of all the Linky Parties…I am still new to this! P.S. I feel the same way about Costco bananas! I thought it was just me!
I need to make a list too. It’s hard to keep up with them all. Thanks for stopping by.
I love adding Greek yogurt to breads. It not only adds protein, but I really think it makes them more moist. Thanks for sharing on Foodie Friends Friday!
Thanks for commenting and for the fun link party! 🙂
I hardly ever comment publicly but I just had to let you know that this is THE best recipe for banana bread that I’ve come across and made. I just took the loaf out not 40 minutes ago and half of it is already gone! Thank you for sharing.
I’m glad you commented! It’s nice to know real people are actually making the recipes I post. I made 6 loaves of this myself over the weekend and I think we only have 3 left. I knew I had half a loaf on the counter this morning, but I guess my husband took it to work, because it’s nowhere to be found. 🙂
P.S. I didn’t devour half of it myself, I should have mentioned that my guys did lol
Haha! I wouldn’t blame you if you had. 🙂
This looks fabulous! Thanks for sharing at Talking Tuesday!XOXO
I made this recipe last weekend and I must say the banana bread is amazingly moist, the only thing I changed was 1/4 coconut oil instead of butter 🙂 thank you for sharing . I wil be making more this weekend 🙂
Yummy! Coconut oil is my favorite. I’m going to try that next time I make it. 🙂
I made this banana bread today….it is amazing!! Thank you so much for sharing this!!
Glad you liked it!
Oh my goodness, that looks wonderful!
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Karin
I was just wondering if you have tried making this with Whole wheat flour…and since have you made it with almond flour or oat flour? has it turned out? I try to stay away from white flour. Thank so much for all your recipes! 🙂 I especially wanted to thank you for the meal plans-I hate meal planning and I am hoping for it to help me out!
I have a recipe that uses whole wheat flour and it’s delicious, so I would think you could use it in this recipe. I’m just not sure if ww swaps for the exact amount as regular flour. That’s the only hang up.
When I use whole wheat I just swap it straight across. Same thing with oat flour as well.
Love it. Already made it 6 times!
What kind of flour would you recommend using? I saw your comment about the coconut flour not turning out well. Any success with other types? Thanks!
I’ve made it with oat flour. It was a little heavier, but still good.
This banana bread sounds yummy and healthy with the Greek Yogurt. Thanks for linking up to Saturday Dishes.
I pinned it.
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I have cooked with Greek yogurt. Lucy (my sister and co-blogger) has. In fact, she’s made lots of things with Greek yogurt. I’m going to have to try it. Your banana bread looks yummy. Thanks for sharing at Saturday Dishes.
Thats so funny about Costco! And true! I have lots of ripe bananas right now this looks so moist! Yum!
What is the 21 day fix container count on this? Sounds delicious!
I would count two slices as a yellow. There is a little bit of fat and protein as well, but not enough to count as a container.