Name: Simple eggless banana bread recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 75 min
Ingredients: 4 ripe to overripe bananas; ¾ cup brown sugar; ½ cup butter; ½ cup buttermilk; 2 cups flour; 2 tsp baking powder; 1 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp cinnamon; 1½ tsp vanilla essence

This eggless banana bread recipe is super simple to make, really moist, and tastes so good!

Try it and you won’t be disappointed.

What is in this eggless banana bread recipe

This recipe is very similar to my banana bread recipe; though there are two changes.

First, buttermilk is used in place of the eggs and, second, more vanilla essence is added to mask the taste of the buttermilk. That’s it!

Here’s a full list of the ingredients I used in this recipe:

ripe bananas
butter
buttermilk
vanilla essence
sugar
flour
baking powder
baking soda
cinnamon

You can add more fun ingredients to your eggless banana bread like:

chocolate chips
cocoa powder
raisins
cranberries and other dried fruit and berries
nuts like almonds, walnuts, macadamia nuts
mixed peel

With these ingredients, you can take my simple eggless banana bread recipe and kick it up a few notches. Experiment and make it your own.

How to make eggless banana bread

Making the bread is simple: peel and mash the ripe bananas before mixing with the other wet ingredients. Combine the dry ingredients separately before adding to the wet ingredients. Bake for an hour or so.

Easy peasy!

Let’s get into a little more detail, shall we?

Preheat the oven

Step 1: The first thing you should do is preheat the oven at 350°F. Whipping up the batter is quick enough that your first step should be preheating.

Prep the bananas

Next, prep your bananas. You’ll want to use very ripe bananas because they are so much sweeter. Did you know the brown spots on the banana peel are there because the starches are turning into sugar? So, very brown bananas means they’re sweeter!

Step 2: Remove the banana peels and add them to a large bowl. Mash with a potato masher or the back of a fork. If you like little bits of banana in the bread, mash until chunky, otherwise mix until very smooth.

Mix in the wet ingredients

Step 3: Next, melt the butter in the microwave for about 40 seconds. Pour into the bowl and mix fully.

Step 4: Although sugar isn’t a wet ingredient, I add it in at this point.

Step 5: After the sugar is incorporated, it’s time to pour in the buttermilk and vanilla essence. Mix well and set aside.

Mix in the dry ingredients

Step 6: In a separate bowl, add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon. You’ll want to stir everything together to make sure the raising agents (baking powder and baking soda) are well mixed in.

Step 7: If you want to add the optional ingredients, now is the time. I love adding chocolate chips to my banana bread but you can add in your favorites. Walnuts, almonds, and cranberries are great options too.

dry ingredients for banana bread without eggs

Bring everything together

Step 8: Add half of the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Combine fully before adding the rest of the dry ingredients. The resulting batter should be a bit runny.

Bake

Step 9: Pour the batter into a buttered and floured loaf pan.

Step 10: Bake in your already preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes. This banana bread took about one hour to bake. At the 50 minute mark, it wasn’t all the way cooked in the center. But, ten minutes later it was done.

Remove the bread from the oven and from the loaf pan. Steam can accumulate underneath the bread and may cause it to sink a little. So, be sure to place the bread on a cooling rack until it has cooled down completely before cutting into it.

Serve as is or with a little ice cream on the side. Do you see those little banana chunks? Yummy!

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