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’m going to sub in blackberries since they are on sale..LOOKS GOOD!! My kids love any bread with almond butter slathered on it…those are our “sandwiches”!
Ooh that sounds yummy! Both the blackberries and the almond butter – so delicious 🙂
Whenever I come across a recipe that looks amazing and involves bananas, I only have very under-ripe bananas. BAH. And I always eat them before they get ripe enough to bake with!
I know, the banana ripening struggle is real! Seriously anytime I have overripe ones I drop everything I’m doing and make up a new recipe 🙂 I also try to buy double but sometimes that doesn’t even work.
If your bananas are ripe but you don’t have time to bake, just peal them and throw them in a freezer bag. Then on the day you’re ready to bake take out as many as you need, place in a bowl and let them defrost, only takes an hour or so. Do not throw out the water content! Use all of it, for that is the sugars that makes bananas sweet! Without that your bread will be under sweet. I have made this bread a few times. With blueberries and another time with blackberries. It is always good! Thank you!
Good tips!
This just looks like the perfect texture and amazing! All I think about when I read your recipes is that a) I want them and b) your kids are so lucky!
Haha thanks Margaret! My kids might argue with you on that but then again they have no idea 🙂
About the texture… just made them and mine turned out over moist, like damp ‘undercooked look’… Got any tricks for me…? Only difference with your recipe was I put it in muffin tins (top looked just like yours when I pulled them out of the oven)…and used wild frozen bluberries…
Thanks
I’m thinking the frozen blueberries probably added to much moisture and made the whole thing too dense. I’ve had trouble using frozen blueberries with most of my blueberry recipes and especially those involving coconut flour since it absorbs so much moisture and needs to be accurately measured to balance the wet ingredients. That said it could’ve also been the brand of coconut flour used, they can vary to the point where the difference affects recipe texture. I’d say if you wanted to remake, use fresh blueberries and add 1 tbsp more coconut flour and see what happens!
To make muffins, do you keep them in the oven as long? Thanks!!
Nope, you’d need probably 25 minutes I’d say 🙂
Thanks! They came out great!! 🙂
Great!
With my kids in school on my days off from work now, I find it really hard to remember that I can run later if I want. But I really, really like my early mornings so I can get it out of the way! Pinning this bread because ummm…blueberries. YUM!
I’m the exact same way. I could run later every day now if I wanted, but I prefer to have it done with and have the rest of the day to get other things done! It never feels as good as it does first thing in the morning!
Well, if I were to make this bread it would definitely be the thing to disappear fastest in my house. As it stands right now we run low on GF Udi’s bread & frozen berries pretty darn quick!
Berries of all kinds are a favorite here too 🙂 Hope you try!
This looks great! Im sure it will disappear in my house too! Cant wait to make it next week 🙂
Id say eggs go really fast because we eat them all of the time! Also anything in the sweets department…especially around the holidays!
Ahh yes – eggs! My kids go through phases – and when they’re into them they’re gone in a flash!
I don’t leave the house before coffee and my morning poo have happened, even if I have to be somewhere at 5 a.m. I just wake up at 4 a.m. so I can take care of business first.
I love blueberry anything and have a few bags left of frozen blueberries in my deep freezer.
Is it weird that I’m jealous of your regularity?
A nice big hunk of this bread plus some almond butter and coffee would be the best breakfast!!
Yum, coffee and almond butter would make it perfect!
Oh yum!!!! Banana and blueberry sounds amazing. And you’re totally right – whenever I make desserts or sweet recipes especially, its like their gone before I can even photograph ;D
I know! I need to basically put a “don’t eat” sign on them 🙂
Ohhhh… I’ve been craving banana bread lately. Blueberries are such a great add – I love how juicy they get when they’re warm.
I know – my favorite!