Blueberry Banana Bread

Submitted by Zaney1

"I love this bread. It doesn't have any bisquik in it. It's just very tasty. I got it published in a fundraising cookbook and have alot of people tell me how good it is. You could make it in a bundt pan as well, just adjust the time. I have never been able to wait until it is completely cool before I eat it. Total recipe time does not include time to cool."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 10mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 2 loaves
• Serves: 20

ingredients

• 1 1⁄4 cups sugar
• 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1⁄2 cups very ripe bananas, mashed (about 3)
• 1⁄2 cup buttermilk or 1/2 cup plain yogurt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup frozen blueberries (no need to thaw)

directions

1. Put oven rack on lowest position.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
3. Grease bottom only of two loaf pans.
4. Cream butter and sugar till fluffy.
5. Stir in eggs until well blended.
6. Stir in bananas, buttermilk OR yogurt and vanilla.
7. Beat until smooth.
8. Stir in flour, baking soda, and salt until just moistened.
9. Stir in blueberries.
10. Divide batter evenly between the two loaf pans.
11. Bake 60-70 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
12. Cool 10 minutes in pan.
13. Loosen sides and remove bread from pans.
14. Cool completely before slicing, about 2 hours.

Reviews

[Allybee Z]

I love banana bread! And adding blueberries was such a good idea. This bread taste great, but the bottom of the loves started to get too brown from being on the lowest oven rack so moved them. Also used buttermilk instead of yogurt and cooked for 55 min total.

 

[mom_two_washington]

This is very good and thanks to others who tried it and submitted reviews, I used vanilla yogurt, added 2 c. of blueberries, baked in bundt for 1 hour and added 1 1/2 t. cinnamon. Worked great - good texture and flavor. It's the best of both worlds. Thanks very much for posting!!!!

 

[Dienia B.]

kree is right this bread is very good i floured the blueberrys even though they were frozen to keep them suspended in the batter thank you for posting this i also used blueberry yougurt cause thats what i had

 

[Kree]

This is a delicious bread! No wonder people compliment you on the recipe. I actually made it as one loaf of bread and 8 muffins. Honestly, I think the batter was a little skimpy, and the loaves would have been very small if I had actually made two full loaves, but this way the amount was perfect. I never thought to combine bananas and blueberries in a bread but the flavors compliment one another perfectly. This one's a keeper.

 

[cookins-not-my-bag]

Absolutely yummy. I did adjust this recipe to suit a diabetic by doing half brown sugar and half Splenda, substituting butter with 1/4 c butter and 1/4 c unsweetened applesauce, instead of 2 eggs, I did 1 egg and 2 egg whites, all whole wheat flour and used frozen blueberries which I placed in a ziploc bag and shook with 1 Tbsf cornstarch first. Then sifted off the access cornstarch. This kept the blueberries from bleeding while baking. I made one large loaf at 50 minutes and 6 regular muffins at 22 minutes. Very delicious. Extremely easy to make. Thanks for posting this.