This Blueberry (or huckleberry) Banana Bread recipe is moist, tender, and so yummy! Slather a slice with butter and enjoy with a cup of tea or coffee soda!
This blueberry banana bread only requires 2 bananas but it's so moist and delicious! You can also easily swap out many of the ingredients. Personally, I prefer to bake it with huckleberries but I know not everyone has huckleberries at their disposal.
Either way, I think that this is one of the best banana bread recipes I've tried and I'm excited to share it with you!
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🧐 Why This Recipe Works
- This blueberry banana bread recipe tastes great when it's warm but is even better the next day!
- Banana bread freezes well, so you can stash some away for later.
- Did you know you can even freeze dry banana bread? It tastes just like biscotti and makes an excellent snack.
🛒 What Goes Into This Recipe
🔖 Ingredients & Substitutions
- Flour: You can use all-purpose flour or pastry flour in this recipe.
- Sugar: You can use granulated sugar, brown sugar, or a combination of the two.
- Blueberries: Fresh blueberries or frozen blueberries can be used, or if you're lucky enough to have huckleberries, you can add them!
- Butter: Unsalted butter or melted coconut oil.
- Bananas: Fresh over ripe bananas or frozen bananas.
- Spices: Besides cinnamon, cardamom, and nutmeg are also delicious in banana bread.
- Extras: Chocolate chips and lemon zest are also wonderful in banana bread.
🍌 How to Make Blueberry Banana Bread
Preheat oven to 350-Degrees F
Step 1: Place butter in a small bowl and cover with a napkin to avoid splatter. Microwave for 30 to 45 seconds.
Step 2: Crack eggs into a medium-sized bowl. Whisk vanilla into eggs until fluffy. Add melted butter, and whisk to combine.
Step 3: In a large bowl, whisk flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. If adding walnuts, chop and stir into the flour mixture.
Step 4: Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until combined. Fold the mashed bananas and blueberries or huckleberries into the batter.
Step 5: Grease and flour a loaf pan, then pour batter into it. Bake loaf for 45 minutes then turn the temperature down to 325 and loosely cover with aluminum foil to avoid over-browning.
Step 6: Insert a toothpick into the center of the loaf. If done, the toothpick should come out clean.
Pro Tip: If the toothpick is covered with wet batter, the banana bread needs to continue to cook. Check every 5 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.
Step 7: Cool on the counter for approximately 15 minutes then carefully invert the loaf onto a wire rack. Cool completely before slicing.
🤷🏻♀️ Recipe FAQs
Yes, you can use fresh or frozen bananas to make banana bread. The key is to make sure they're fully defrosted before adding them to the batter.
To keep banana bread moist, first, remove the banana bread from the loaf pan. Next, wrap the loaf with plastic wrap or foil and store it in a large ziplock bag.
Wrap banana bread in plastic wrap and place inside a ziplock bag then store in the refrigerator. Another option is to freeze the banana bread. Simply slice the banana bread and wrap the slices individually before freezing them.
👩🏼🍳 Pro Tips
- This banana bread batter can also be used to make banana muffins.
- To enhance the banana flavor, add 1 teaspoon of banana extract.
- Walnuts are delicious in banana bread. Add one cup chopped walnuts or pecans when mixing in the huckleberries and banana.
- Banana bread is pretty perishable and should be stored in the refrigerator or the freezer to keep it from spoiling, especially in a warm environment.
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📖 Recipe
Blueberry Banana Bread
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter (melted)
- 2 large eggs (beaten)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1¾ cups flour
- ¾ cup white or brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon powder
- 2 large ripe banana (¾ cup mashed)
- ¾ cup fresh or frozen blueberries (or huckleberries)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350-Degrees F
- Place butter in a small bowl and cover with a napkin to avoid splatter. Microwave for 30 to 45 seconds.
- Crack eggs into a medium-sized bowl. Whisk vanilla into eggs until fluffy. Add melted butter, and whisk to combine.
- In a large bowl, whisk flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. If adding walnuts, chop and stir into the flour mixture.
- Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until combined. Fold the mashed bananas and blueberries or huckleberries into the batter.
- Grease and flour a loaf pan, then pour batter into it. Bake loaf for 45 minutes then turn the temperature down to 325 and loosely cover with aluminum foil to avoid over-browning.
- Insert a toothpick into the center of the loaf. If done, the toothpick should come out clean.
- Cool on the counter for approximately 15 minutes then carefully invert the loaf onto a wire rack. Cool completely before slicing.
Notes
- This banana bread batter can also be used to make banana muffins.
- To enhance the banana flavor, add 1 teaspoon of banana extract.
- Walnuts are delicious in banana bread. Add one cup chopped walnuts or pecans when mixing in the huckleberries and banana.
- Banana bread is pretty perishable and should be stored in the refrigerator or the freezer to keep it from spoiling, especially in a warm environment.
Hilda Sterner says
Thanks for the comment and review! I would add walnuts too if my husband didn't hate them. 😉
Tina Marie Doughty says
Delicious 🤤 I added walnuts and extra huckleberrys ♥️
HildaSterner says
Thanks for the review, I'm glad you got to taste it! Love you!
Veronica says
So so glorious!! Thanks Aunt Hilda for being a culinary genius ♥️
HildaSterner says
Hi Lori, Glad you liked it! It was nice having you guys over!
Lori Ross says
I got to try this bread and it was amazing! Great flavor and it was super moist. This was really good:) Thanks Hilda!