With lots of natural sweetness and perfectly soft and moist texture, this healthy Banana Blueberry Breakfast Bread will make everyone in the family happy! Great for breakfast or a quick snack, it’s Paleo, nut free, grain free, oil free and dairy free.
I’m still surprised at how quickly recipes like this one disappear before I can even say “save me a sli-vah will ya?” Just kidding, that was a Jewish grandma joke and I won’t be saying things like that for at least another 35 years.
What I do say is “just have one piece so we can have some left tomorrow” but nope, doesn’t work. Quick breads, muffins, cookies, chocolate, and fudge are gone typically within a day of making them. It’s definitely a good sign – kids and husbands don’t just eat anything lying around – it has to be special. And by special I mean it has to be something that resembles non-Paleo food, bonus points if it also sort of tastes non-Paleo, too.
So, this yummy Banana Blueberry Breakfast Bread is long gone, not to return until I have a couple of overripe bananas, and let’s face it – I’ll probably use those to create another recipe. I’m not crying over these #foodbloggerproblems I’m just telling it as it is 🙂
In running news, I have a 10 mile run planned for today while the kids are in school, instead of my typical early morning weekend run. I haven’t run that late since the NYC marathon and it’s definitely not my favorite time, so we’ll see how it goes.
I used to be somewhat more open and flexible about the time I run (when the kids were little I went whenever it made sense, and that wasn’t usually early) but now I’m SO set on my early morning time that I start questioning whether it’s even possible for me to run later in the morning.
Strange, because I don’t feel like a completely different person 3 hours after my typical 6am time, but still, I imagine myself really struggling and hating it at 9am. I’d like to think of myself as Cinderella and when the clock strikes anything later than 6, I completely lose any running fitness I have. It totally makes sense now that I think of it that way, thanks Cinderella.
Back to this banana blueberry breakfast bread! This really is the perfect sort of snack for me, or even breakfast before a later morning run. I typically don’t eat before an early morning run because I’m not hungry at all, but there’s no way I’m going without food if I’m not running until 9am, nor do I really want a big breakfast hash before I run – sausage, potatoes, eggs and running are a recipe for a disastrous run!
So I’ll save my big breakfast hash for lunch (breakfast all day = awesome) and, um, well I wish now that I could eat this pre-run, but like I said, it’s gone. I’ll have to settle for a banana or plantains and scrambled eggs I think. And no coffee. Just another thing I hate about running later!
Banana Blueberry Breakfast Bread {Paleo & Nut Free}
Banana Blueberry Breakfast Bread {Paleo, Nut Free}
Ingredients
- 2 small overripe bananas mashed, about 3/4 cup mashed
- 3 large eggs
- 1/4 cup full fat coconut milk canned, blended prior to adding to the batter
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp pure maple syrup
- 2/3 cup + 1 Tbsp coconut flour
- 1/4 cup tapioca flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp fine grain sea salt
- 3/4 cup fresh blueberries
Instructions
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Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line a medium loaf pan (8.5 x 4.5") with parchment paper (I recommend this over greasing the pan since it's a lot less messy this way!)
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In a large bowl, mash the bananas well and whisk in the eggs, coconut milk, vanilla, and maple syrup.
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In a smaller bowl, combine the coconut flour, tapioca, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
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Slowly stir the dry ingredients into the wet until fully combined. Coconut flour expands quite a bit and the batter will be thick.
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Fold in the blueberries, leaving a small handful to sprinkle over the top. Transfer the entire mixture into the parchment lined loaf pan and spread it out evenly, then sprinkle the remaning blueberries over the top.
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Place on the middle rack in the oven and bake in the preheated oven for 50-55 minutes, until golden brown and a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
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Remove from oven and allow to cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack** to cool completely. Wait about an hour before slicing.
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Enjoy!
Recipe Notes
*A larger loaf pan is fine too but won't be as full/high
** You can gently life the loaf out of the pan in the parchment paper to cool on the wire rack. Easy cleanup and the loaf stays put!
Nutrition
What I Used to Make my Paleo Blueberry Banana Breakfast Bread:
Want more Paleo quick breads and muffins? Try one of these!
Paleo Chocolate Chunk Banana Bread
Paleo Double Chocolate Banana Muffins
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I hate running at a later time too! It only works well for me if I sleep later. I think it becomes more about how I have been up than about the actual time. I should have planned to run long today instead of tomorrow though since it’s looking like heavy rain in the morning and I wanted to run outside. I want to make this bread! I don’t have tapioca flour though – do you think I can sub it?
Tapioca flour adds a little bit of sponginess but I think it would be fine without it, but add a tbsp more of coconut flour I’d say. Honestly I hated running this morning and felt so off, like I was plodding, but glad it’s done now for the weekend at least!
You can use arrowroot as a one to one sub 🙂
Yum! I’m making this tomorrow. I’d make it today if I didn’t have to work.
Yay! Hope you like it!
Anytime I workout late I feel the exact same way. My body is slow and my mind just isn’t into it. It’s like there’s this magical window when I can do it otherwise forget about it. Love the bread! Anything with berries is yum!
Blueberries are my favorite 🙂 And my run didn’t feel great just as I suspected. I felt like I was plodding along even though I was mainly going the same pace as usual. So strange how we have those windows!
But this would be so perfect pre run! Or post run. Maybe even during the run 😀
I have taken something like this (maybe a muffin) on a long run when I hadn’t bought fuel and had it around! It’s low FODMAP so no tummy trouble for me!
If I wasn’t on Whole30 I would make this today to use up the over-ripe bananas on my counter. Yum! I don’t like running later in the day either, mainly because I lose motivation. The workouts don’t ever feel as good as when I run first thing, but that could just be my imagination.
My run didn’t feel great this morning, although it wasn’t horrible, I felt sluggish and like I was plodding the whole time! First thing in the morning I feel faster even when I’m slower somehow.
Why no coffee?
Bothers my stomach if I drink it before running, as in can’t get through the run!
Oh this definietly woudnt last very long in my house! I’m not only a huge banana bread fan but am also a sucker for anything with blueberries in it. So yes, this would be gone in roughly 3 days. Breakfast, snacks, and post workout, right? 😉
Blueberry is my favorite too, especially muffins or a bread like this 🙂 Definitely won’t last long!
Paleo AND nut free breakfast bread! Sign me up! (When I let any bananas get overripe around here…)
That’s a tough one here too. If I know I want to bake with them I get double!
BBBB Bread!!!
And I do! Like…it’s just not right to workout at a different time or a different type of workout on a day that isn’t normally that, you know?
Oh I know! I almost never change the time I run unless life forces me to! And yup I went with the alliteration, couldn’t help myself 😉
This looks so good! I love using coconut flour.
I find it bakes really well with tapioca flour and also for pancakes 🙂