My grandmother used to bake banana bread, and I have a tried-and-true recipe for it. It has been modified by my addition of coconut and mandarin oranges. People at work complimented me on them when I brought them.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 40 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 muffins |
Ingredients
- 1 cup white sugar
- ½ cup margarine
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup mashed bananas
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 (10 ounce) can mandarin oranges, drained and chopped
- ½ cup shredded coconut
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour 12 muffins cups or line with paper liners.
- Beat sugar and margarine together in a bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy; stir in eggs. Stir bananas into margarine mixture; stir in vanilla extract.
- Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl; stir into margarine mixture until just combined. Fold oranges and coconut into batter. Spoon batter into muffin tins.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean, 20 to 30 minutes.
- Butter can be substituted for margarine and Splenda(R) can be substituted for sugar. Use half Splenda(R) and half sugar.
- If baking as bread, bake 30 to 45 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 254 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 40 g |
| Cholesterol | 31 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Sodium | 247 mg |
| Sugars | 22 g |
| Fat | 9 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
These tasted good. The banana is subtle. The oranges didn’t add anything; they seemed to almost disappear when I baked them. I had chopped them as stated in the recipe. The batter was thicker than I’m used to, but they turned out okay. The edges started to get very brown at 20 minutes, but the middles weren’t done. I turned the oven down to 300 and left them in another 10 minutes. They were good warm with butter.
My family really liked these and my son asked for the recipe. They’re very moist and flavorful. I made a couple of very minor changes: I smashed the oranges with the bananas before adding because I knew my guys would be thrown by chunks of oranges (the flavor stays the same). I also added a tsp of cinnamon because I just like it.
These are delicious! I blended the mandarin oranges with the bananas as another poster did. I may try them next time with pineapple tidbits instead of the mandarin oranges, thanks so much for sharing your recipe with us.
I just made these for an easy grab and go breakfast. I sub’d a few things for added nutrition: 1/2 cup spelt flour for reg flour, 1/2 cup brown sugar for white sugar and added 1 cup chopped walnuts in lieu of the mandarines as i didn’t have any on hand. The batter itself was really good-tasted like cake! It also took a little longer to cook, about 10 mins (maybe because i sub’d some spelt flour in there). Very good muffin recipe. It’s seems more “treaty” than breakfasty but who doesn’t want cake for breakfast?!
Great recipe. Easy to make. Family and coworkers liked it. Wish the mandarins were more noticeable for flavour. Left some of the juice in to add moisture…we’re just a bit in the drier side if oranges drained completely.
I followed the recipe exactly. They came out really good. Next time I might use a cup of coconut flakes instead of just 1/2. I also might try crushed pineapple instead of the mandarin oranges like someone else previously suggested. They definitely came out great with the ingredients given in the recipe.
I followed the recipe, and added 1 cup of grated coconut, and 1/2 cup of yogurt. The muffins were delicious!
I didn’t use the oranges but it still tasted amazing! Thanks for the recipe!!!
Update: I have made this several more times now, sometimes following the recipe exactly, sometime varying it. My kiddo doesn’t like the chunks of mandarin, so I usually blend up the mandarins into the batter. Family loves them as is, but they are better with pineapple chunks. Something odd about these… when they are fresh from the oven, they stick to the paper liner. After a few hours, they peel off the paper just fine. Weird. Original: I always hesitate to rate a recipe that I’ve changed, but I know other people may benefit from my changes. I suspect this would have been 5 stars had I followed the recipe exactly. Since coconut is supposed to be so good for you, I subbed 1/4 C coconut oil + 1/4 C butter for the margarine. I used 1.5 C gluten-free flour + 1/2 C coconut flour. And I used fresh oranges. The coconut overpowered the other flavors a little, but that was to be expected, I guess. My family really enjoyed it and it will become a regular. I think it would also be good with pineapple instead of/or in addition to the oranges.
This is a great recipe! The coconut adds sweetness and a great texture. Very easy to pull together in a pinch. Had everything in my pantry! Great for breakfast! And a easy clean up!
Did it exact except used coconut flakes and less of them. Was delicious! Thanks for the recipe!