Strawberry Banana Bread
Strawberry Banana Bread is beyond delicious; it's moist, tender, and makes perfect use of overripe bananas. Great for breakfast, snack, or dessert!
Servings: 10
Ingredients
- 2 cups fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced
- 2 bananas, very ripe, mashed
- ½ cup brown sugar, packed
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 1 ½ cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp table salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 large eggs, room temp
- ½ tsp pure vanilla extract
- ½ cup salted butter, melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F, with rack on lower middle. Grease and flour a 8x5" loaf pan*
- In a bowl, gently toss strawberries with the granulated sugar, coating all strawberries with sugar. Let sit.
- In large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
- In separate bowl, beat eggs until slightly foamy. Add vanilla, brown sugar, and melted butter. Add in the macerated strawberries and mashed bananas.
- Using rubber spatula, gently fold flour mixture into the egg/butter mixture, just until dry ingredients are moistened.
- Scrape batter into prepared pan. Bake about 1 hour to 1.5 hours, or until toothpick in center comes out almost clean, with just a few moist crumbs attached.
- Let bread cool completely in pan on wire rack prior to slicing. Overnight works best.
Notes
- For this recipe, we prefer a glass loaf pan. If you use a metal pan, it's best to use a light-colored one. If you use a darker metal pan, decrease bake time - start checking bread at 55 minutes.
- If you use a 9x5" instead of 8x5", plan to decrease bake time. Start checking bread at 55 minutes.
- Chop or gently mash the strawberries for even disbursement of berries throughout the bread. This prevents heavy chunks of fruit from sinking to the bottom of your strawberry bread.
- If desired, you can use a combination of whole wheat and regular flour (up to half of each) or try white-whole-wheat flour.
- Bread can be frozen airtight for several weeks.
- Serve Strawberry Banana Bread with a scoop of Creamy Vanilla Bean Ice Cream for a truly satisfying dessert.
- For extra tips on buying and baking with strawberries, see original article.
Nutrition (per serving)
Calories: 256kcal | Carbohydrates: 38g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 62mg | Sodium: 247mg | Potassium: 181mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 20g | Vitamin A: 357IU | Vitamin C: 19mg | Calcium: 52mg | Iron: 1mg