Say, what?! Avocado banana bread? You’re probably thinking that cannot be true, or, if it is, it must not be very good, right? Well, it is true, my friends, and it is a delicious combination.
I came across this recipe years ago over at Live, Laugh, Eat and it has been my “go-to” banana bread recipe ever since. The avocado is a healthy way to help keep the bread moist (ew, I hate that word) and the beauty with this recipe is you can’t really taste the avocado. The banana flavor absolutely trumps the avocado, so don’t worry, you’ll still feel like you’re eating banana bread.
The cooler early morning temps over the weekend, paired with overly ripe bananas & a very ripe avocado, made for a perfect excuse to dust off my baking pans and spend my Sunday morning baking. I tried to follow the recipe, but you’ll see below that I did make some changes.
Avocado Banana Bread
recipe from Live, Laugh, Eat, but slightly adapted by myself
Ingredients:
I halved the recipe… just an FYI
- 2 med-large bananas
- 1 med-large avocado
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
2 TBSP coconut oil-I didn’t have coconut oil so I used milk (I must have googled that substitution somewhere)1 tsp lemon juice– Again, I skipped this and am assuming it’s because I added milk? The recipe is old!- 1/2 cup skim milk
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 2 1/4 cups of whole grain flour (I used 1/2 c whole wheat, 1 c oat, 3/4 c spelt)– I used regular ol’ white flour
1/3 cup ground flax seed(I ran out so I didn’t include this)- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350* F
1. Mash the banana and avocado. Add in the rest of the ingredients up until the flour, and including the vanilla.
2. Slowly fold in the flour & cinnamon.
3. Add in the chocolate chips.
4. Grease a loaf pan and bake at 350* for about 35-40 minutes.
5. Cut a nice slice, add some butter, and enjoy while it’s still warm!
This was the perfect Sunday morning treat! I haven’t baked since I cut back on sweets and since it was summer and too hot to bake, I didn’t really miss it… that is, up until I started baking on Sunday morning and realized how much I enjoy it!
Questions for you: What word grosses you out the most? Do you like to bake? Do you make a lot of substitutions when you bake?
Burpees to Bubbly 
very interesting!
Tell Colleen to try it! Emma would love it:)
Hi Nick, Nothing about cooking grosses me out, but I do hate when things are “slimey”–overripe fruit, and veggies–yuck! I rarely bake(you and Dani told me that your daycare provider made much better snacks than I did!!). I do, however, make LOTS of substitutions on main meal recipes–I love to improvise when reading a recipe–living in a rural area causes one to do that when you can’t just run out to the grocery store! Mom
Ugh yuck! Slimey anything grosses me out!! I learned to improvise from you:)