Best 8 Healthier Banana Banana Bread Recipes

HEALTHIER BANANA BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
• Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. Beat butter, yogurt, and brown sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color. Add room-temperature eggs one at a time, allowing each egg to blend into butter mixture before adding the next. Stir in mashed bananas until well blended. Pour banana mixture to flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Transfer batter into prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into center of loaf comes out clean, 60 to 65 minutes. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto wire rack to cool completely.

HEALTHIER BANANA SOUR CREAM BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease four 7x3-inch loaf pans.
• Stir together 2 tablespoons white sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon in a small bowl. Dust pans lightly with sugar mixture.
• Beat butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Blend in eggs, mashed bananas, sour cream, vanilla extract, and 2 teaspoons cinnamon. Whisk together salt, baking soda, all-purpose flour, and whole wheat flour in a bowl. Stir flour mixture into butter mixture until just combined; fold in nuts. Divide into prepared pans.
• Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 1 hour.

HEALTHIER YOGURT BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Grease one 5x9-inch loaf pan, or use 3 mini loaf pans. Some people even double the recipe and bake it in a bundt pan. Spray with cooking spray to coat pans.
• Cream margarine, sugar, eggs and vanilla.
• Add dry ingredients, then mashed bananas, nuts, and yogurt or sour cream. Add chocolate chips, if using. Mix well.
• Bake at 350°F for 1 hour. If using mini loaf pans, cook for about 45 minutes. Enjoy!

SOUTHERN LIVING'S CREAM CHEESE BANANA NUT BREAD...HEALTHIER VERS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Place 3/4 cup pecans in a single layer on a baking sheet and bake 12-15 minutes or until toasted and fragrant, stirring after 6 minutes.
• Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating until fluffy and light. Add eggs, one at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
• Combine flours and next 4 ingredients; gradually add to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with the flour mixture.
• Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition. Stir in bananas, 3/4 cup toasted pecans, and vanilla.
• Spoon batter into 2 greased and floured 8x4 inch pans. Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup pecans.
• Bake at 350°F for one hour or until a long wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean and sides of bread pull away from pan, shielding with aluminum foil during last 15 minutes to prevent excessive browning, if necessary. Cool bread in pans on wire racks 10 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks. Let cool 30 minutes.

CORNMEAL BANANA BREAD (HEALTHIER)

Steps:

• First melt your bananas in the microwave if you have not already done so. Set aside to cool to room temperature (this is important because otherwise your egg might curdle later on).
• Then combine flour, cornmeal, oat flour, oats, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice and salt in a large bowl.
• In a second bowl combine bananas, almond butter, egg, milk and almond extract and mix well.
• Combine dry and wet ingredients and mix until just combined. The dough should be rather thick, but not dry. If needed add a splash more milk or two.
• Pour batter into a prepared loaf pan and bake in the pre-heated oven at 180 C/350 F for 35-40 minutes.
• Remove to a wire rack to cool completely and enjoy!

HEALTHIER BANANA BREAD (LOWER FAT, FLAX, WW FLOUR, LESS SUGAR)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Spray 2 loaf pans with non-stick spray.
• Mash bananas.
• Combine sugar, oil and egg--mixing until creamy.
• Blend in mashed bananas.
• In a separate bowl, combine whole wheat flour, ground flax seed, salt, baking soda. (Add the nuts to the dry ingredients at this point). Combine wet and dry ingredients, but do not overmix.
• Pour batter into loaf pans and bake approximately 1 hour-testing with a toothpick at the hour, and then as needed.
• Note: Because the batter is dense you will need to watch the baking time to be sure it is adequate--don't only go by color, flax seed will add darkness.

CROCK POT HEALTHIER BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Spray a bread pan or 1 quart casserole with oil cooking spray. Crumple up aluminum foil and place on bottom of crock pot.
• 2. Beat coconut oil, sugar,apple sauce and honey together until well blended.
• 3. Add the eggs and beat until blended. Add bananas, and vanilla. Beat until smooth.
• 4. Stir in flours. Baking soda, and salt. Add nuts and chocolate if desired and blend.
• 5. Place batter in prepared baking dish or pan, and place in crock pot. Cover and cook on high 2-3 hours. Check on it with tooth pick inserted in to bread. You can also cook on low from 4-6 hours. Note: It took 2 hours and 20 minutes for my bread to cook in a bread pan,and in an oval crock pot

DEE'S YUMMY & HEALTHIER BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. line a cookie sheet with 8 mini aluminum loaf pans. Spray with non stick spray (I use coconut flavored) Cream butter and coconut oil in large mixer bowl. Add sugars and beat for 1 minute. Add bananas (I throw them in whole and let the mixer mash them while running).Beat 1 minute more. Add in eggs 1 at a time while mixer is running. Beat 1 minute more. Mix together milk, yogurt, and vanilla in a measuring cup and set aside. Stir together all dry ingredients. Add them alternately with the milk/yogurt mixture. Fold in chosen add ins and spoon batter into loaf pans. Bake for 35-45 minutes until golden brown and they test done. Brush tops with butter or coconut oil while still hot from of the oven. Enjoy!
• 2. Can be served plain or smeared with low fat cream cheese or Neufchatel cheese.