a simple tuna salad to prepare. can be served inside of peeled papayas or tomatoes.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 10 mins |
| Servings: | 32 |
| Yield: | 4 7×3-inch loaves |
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ cup butter
- 1 ½ cups white sugar
- 3 eggs
- 6 very ripe bananas, mashed
- 1 (16 ounce) container reduced fat sour cream
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups white whole wheat flour
- 1 cup chopped walnuts (Optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease four 7×3-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.
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Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 196 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 29 g |
| Cholesterol | 31 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 188 mg |
| Sugars | 13 g |
| Fat | 8 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
One of the best banana bread I’ve ever had. Super moist and full of flavor. I tweaked the recepie a little. I baked it in mini loafs, and they were ready in 35 min. At 350° I only used 1/2 cup of white sugar and 1/2 cup brown sugar. I also substituted oil instead of butter. Used 3/4cup of olive oil. I didn’t use any nuts, instead a threw in some chocolate chips. Mmmmm, ??
A good banana bread with less guilt than the usual. It does make a heartier loaf that is nice and moist. I added cinnamon crunch topping – 1/2 c. sugar, 2 Tbsp. sugar, 3 Tbsp. butter and 1 tsp. cinnamon. This adds a sweet crunch, good for pound cakes, too.
Best banana bread I have ever had. I wouldn’t change a thing!
I made it with honey instead of sugar. I used 1 cup of honey and then 3/4 tsp of salt and 3 1/2 tsp of baking soda. (Next time I will just try 3 tsp of baking soda) I used 2 cups of greek yogurt instead of sour cream. It turned out delicious!
I made 1/2 a recipe. I used only 1 egg and used half vanilla yogurts/half fat free sour cream. I only had all purpose flour so I stuck with that. It was amazing . My kids are choosy with muffins and breads….this was gone immediately!
I loved this recipe. However, I felt the bread itself lacked a little favor, so I added a homemade cinnamon and sugar crumble to put on top. First time making it, and will definitely make again
I made this into Muffins. I was in the middle of making this recipe and realized one of my bananas had gone bad. So I used 2 overripe bananas, and 1/2 a cup of applesauce to replace the third. The batter looked sort of light (may have been the missing banana) so I added in a few dashes of Pumpkin Pie Spice. Oh, I didn’t add in any nuts. They still turned out good! I plan on making these again with the 3 whole bananas and I will edit my review. I wanted to review anyway since there weren’t many reviews so far. Thanks for submitting, I love finding healthier versions of recipes!!!
It needs more sugar. It tasted like cardboard at the first bite. I kinda got used to it but the kids did not like it. Even with the cinnamon/sugar sprinkles on the bottom and on the top. I made mini muffin and baked for 20 min. Very moist but very grainy and not much taste. I even added a 4th banana (half the recipe).
I cut the recipe in half, used oat flour instead of wheat flour, gluten free all purpose flour, 2 eggs (instead of 1 1/2), fat free sour cream, coconut sugar, grapeseed oil instead of butter, and sprinkled a mixture of cinnamon, coconut sugar, grapeseed oil, oats and gluten free flour on top. Plain yogurt can also be used instead of the sour cream to make it even healthier. Thank you for the recipe!
I made this bread exactly as the recipe directed, choosing not to add nuts, and it is delicious!! Not too sweet, great texture. I made 2 loafs and 12 large muffins. Muffins took 45 min exactly at 300 on convection and just to note, everything rises significantly so leave room:)
I think this turned out JUST as good as full fat versions of banana bread I’ve tried before. I made a half recipe, used half vanilla yogurt, half sour cream, and I didn’t have enough regular flour so I filled in the rest with more white wheat flour. I expected it to be a bit heavy that way, but it was moist and yummy anyway! Baked for 45-50 min instead of an hour. I will be making this one again.
Tastes pretty good for healthy bread, however there is way too much cinnamon and it overpowers the banana flavor. This is more like spice cake than banana bread. Ill use the substitutions in a different recipe.
Awesome Recipe! I had a bunch of browning bananas and looked everywhere for the PERFECT banana bread recipe. I finally settled on this one, because who wouldn’t want the healthier version? Anyway, I did make a couple of alterations to make it even healthier by using organic pure cane sugar instead of white sugar, egg replacer, and earth balance instead of butter. I was nervous that it wouldn’t bake properly, especially with the egg replacer, but everything came out delicious and creamy thanks to the sour cream. This recipe also makes a ton of bread. I ended up making 4 mini loaves (~5×3 in disposable pans) AND about 20 muffins. The loaves took about 1 hr 10 mins to bake and the muffins took just about 40-45 minutes. All in all, I will definitely come back to this recipe when I have some end-of-road bananas that need using. RECOMMENDED!
I rated the custom version instead of the published version–whoops! I cut this recipe back by half to 16 servings and made muffins instead of one big loaf. I made this with melted margerine instead of butter and pecans instead of walnuts, I made no other changes. I did bake my muffins at 350*, they were done at exactly 20 minutes. My kids and I thought this was one of the better banana breads we’ve ever had. The sprinkling of cinnamon sugar on the outside was the best part.
Wow – this this healthier version even got my husband’s approval! I cut this recipe in half and used two eggs. This was also a great way to use up some very ripe bananas. It came out moist, sweet and delicious – you really don’t know it’s low in fat. I sprayed a 9×5 baking pan with Pam for baking and then did the cinnamon-sugar dusting. I baked at 350 for a little over an hour – YUM!
I just made it exactly to her adjustments, WOW so good! Healthier and tastes as good as the original! I recommend stirring the wet ingredients in with the flour -creates a denser bread 🙂 yum!