Recipe: (The Best!) Healthy Banana Bread (2024)

Ummm, so.... I have a confession... I'm kinda sorta a banana bread snob. A nicer way to put it would be that I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to banana bread - or maybe I'm like Goldilocks...

It has to be justright. Justdense enough, moist enough, banana-y enough - you know the drift.

I've tried just about every banana bread recipe there is, but I've never been content. I've tried "The Best Ever Banana Bread Recipe"s the "Ultimate Banana Bread Recipe"s, "The Only Banana Bread Recipe You'll Ever Need" - but they weren't perfect.

So I did what I do best - I kept on trying new combinations because just one tiny little thing could have been better - until now....

You see, when I was younger, Mum wouldoccasionallybuy or make us banana bread as a special treat. Warm and toasted with butter - crispy crunchy edges and soft dense centres.

But I didn't want banana cakebread filled with sugar and three tonnes of butter. I wanted to create a healthy version that was still absolutely perfect- and you'll be happy to know I succeeded!

After batch after batch after batch, I've come up with the perfect fail proof recipe. There's no funky ingredients and there's also no sugar, no oil, no gluten and only a tiny little bit of butter.

What I created was a Healthy Banana Bread Recipe that was all of what good banana bread should be - but without all of the extra baggage banana bread usually has. I wanted a recipe that was healthy enough to eat for breakfast because, well, who doesn't want banana bread for breakfast?!

Jesse and I were obsessed from the first bite - and enjoyed a slice of our banana bread toasted and topped with butter for breakfast with a side of fresh fruit. Jesse tried all of his usual tricks - telling me "oh Kristy, you forgot to give me breakfast this morning", trying to hide the banana bread so I wouldn't eat it, suddenly feigning amnesia so he could get another slice - and now he watches the ripening bananas like a hawk waiting for another batch of banana bread to be made.

This is seriously the only banana bread recipe you need because it's so so good - so good, in-fact, the even my fussy Mama gave it the thumbs up!

A healthy banana bread made with applesauce that still tastes good? Yep! It can be done!

So let me give you the recipe >>

*Find out more about gluten free oats in our post, http://www.southerninlaw.com/2013/06/are-oats-gluten-free-where-to-buy-gluten-free-oats-in-australia.html If you cannot tolerate oats, you may replace the oat flour with 1 cup of gluten free plain flour or quinoa/buckwheat/sorghum flour.**Lazy Girl Tip: I usually just add the whole peeled bananas to the mixer and let it do the mashing ;P

Now, do yourself a favour and make a loaf ASAP - and be sure to toast yourself a slice and top it with some butter (realbutter, people!)

But tell me, are you a banana bread fan?

Is there a certain food you're really fussy with?

And what's a treat you remember fondly from your childhood?

Yogurt frogs always remind me of being a kid as my Grandpa would always buy them for me from the health food shop as a treat.