Brown Sugar Blueberry Banana Bread — 🫐🍌🍞Super moist blueberry banana bread made with Greek yogurt and dark brown sugar. Smear some homemade blueberry butter onto a slice of this blueberry brown sugar banana bread and prepare to fall in love!
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Banana bread and blueberry muffins are two of my favorite things. So I combined them into one heavenly mashup.
This blueberry banana bread is ridiculously moist, soft, and bursting with blueberries in every bite. It’s like blueberry coffee cake with the comforting, homey qualities of banana bread.
It’s a one-bowl, no-mixer recipe that goes from bowl to oven in minutes.
The blueberry and yogurt banana bread is falling-apart soft and tender, and even though the batter is very thick before baking, the bread turns out soft and fluffy with just the right amount of density.
The cinnamon and nutmeg gently perfume the bread, and when served with a smear of blueberry butter, it’s total comfort food worthy of your ripe bananas.
Best banana-anything I’ve ever made!
Ingredients in This Recipe
To make the brown sugar blueberry banana bread, you’ll need:
- Egg
- Greek yogurt – sour cream my be substituted
- Coconut oil – or canola oil
- Light and dark brown sugar – both are preferred, but you may use just one kind if needed
- Vanilla extract
- Ground cinnamon
- Ground nutmeg
- Bananas – should be well speckled and fragrant
- All-purpose flour
- Baking soda
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Blueberries – I used frozen, see FAQs if you want to use fresh
And to make the homemade blueberry butter, all you need is:
- Unsalted butter
- Blueberries
I got the coconut oil, sugars, vanilla, cinnamon, flour, baking powder, and baking soda from Vitacost. It’s nice to be able to save money on my shelf-stable dry goods and pantry staples, and they show up on my doorstep, which is great. One less grocery trip to make!
Vitacost has a huge array of items from organic cinnamon to Organic King Arthur All-Puprose Flour, my favorite brand.
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make Banana Bread with Blueberries
This is a super easy banana bread recipe!
- Combine the wet ingredients in a large mixing bowl, along with some cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Add the mashed bananas and stir to incorporate before adding in the dry ingredients.
- Fold the fresh blueberries in with a spatula, being careful not to over mix the batter.Pour the blueberry banana bread batter into two greased 8×4-inch loaves and bake until the top is domed, golden, and set in the center.
- Let the blueberry brown sugar banana bread cool in the loaf pan for 15 minutes before turning it onto a wire rack.
Recipe FAQs
You can use either! I used frozen blueberries since they’re readily available and inexpensive. Not being reliant on fresh berries is nice, but if you have them go for it. Keep the berries frozen when adding them to the batter because they run and bleed less if kept frozen.
I haven’t tried with fresh, but baking time would be reduced. Also note that the batter is extremely thick. I used 2 cups flour because I knew that the frozen berries would release a fair amount of juice while baking, so I created an extra-thick batter to compensate. If you’re using fresh berries, start with 1 3/4 cups flour and use your best judgment.
During the last 5 minutes this blueberry banana bread was in the oven, I tented the loaf pans with a sheet of foil so the tops wouldn’t get too browned before centers cooked through. Note that baking times will vary based on moisture content of bananas, blueberries, climate, and oven variances. Bake until done; watch your bread, not the clock.
Light brown sugar typically has about 1 tablespoon of molasses per cup, whereas dark brown sugar has about 3 tablespoons. The extra molasses adds moisture and creates a richer flavored, amber-hued bread. Using both is preferred, but if you’ve only got one or the other on hand that’s fine! Use what you have.
The blueberry banana bread recipe uses Greek yogurt to provide moisture and richness without adding as much fat as sour cream, although it can be substituted.
I love baking with coconut oil and this quick bread doesn’t taste like coconut whatsoever. Rather, it adds a nearly imperceptible undertone that’s sweeter and more fragrant than canola or vegetable oil, but those may be substituted if you’re concerned.
Storage Instructions
At room temperature: Bread will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 1 week.
In the freezer: Wrap tightly in plastic wrap and / or seal inside a freezer bag; bread will last up to 6 months.
Blueberry butter: Will last up to 1 week in the fridge, so you can enjoy it on your morning toast, waffles, pancakes, and more!
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Brown Sugar Blueberry Banana Bread with Blueberry Butter
Ingredients
Blueberry Banana Bread
- 1 large egg
- 6 ounces plain or vanilla Greek yogurt, sour cream may be substituted)
- ½ cup liquid-state coconut oil, canola or vegetable oil may be substituted
- ½ cup light brown sugar, packed
- ½ cup dark brown sugar, packed
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 to 2 teaspoons cinnamon, or to taste
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg, or to taste
- 1 to 1 ¼ cups mashed ripe bananas, about 2 large or 3 small/medium
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour* (See Notes)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- pinch salt, optional and to taste
- about 1 1/2 cups frozen blueberries, keep them frozen and don’t thaw; fresh may be substituted
Blueberry Butter
- ½ cup unsalted butter, 1 stick, very well softened
- about 1/2 cup blueberries, fresh or frozen (if using frozen, make sure they’re well-drained)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Spray two 8×4-inch loaf pans with floured cooking spray, or grease and flour the pans; set aside.
Make the Banana Bread
- In a large bowl, add first 8 ingredients (through nutmeg), and whisk to combine.
- Add the bananas and stir to incorporate.
- Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, optional salt, and fold with spatula or stir gently with a spoon until just combined; don’t overmix. Batter is extremely thick.
- Fold in blueberries with a spatula.
- Turn batter out into prepared pans, smoothing the tops lightly with a spatula and pushing it into corners and sides as necessary.
- Bake for about 40 to 45 minutes (if using fresh berries, baking time will likely be reduced), or until the top is domed, golden, and the center is set, and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, or with a few moist crumbs, but no batter.
- Allow bread to cool in pan for about 15 minutes before turning out on a wire rack to cool completely before slicing and serving. While bread cools, make the Blueberry Butter.
Make the Blueberry Butter
- In a small bowl, combine the butter, blueberries, and whip vigorously with a spoon to combine. Optionally, instead of blueberry butter, try Strawberry Butter, Honey Butter, Cinnamon-Sugar Butter, or Vanilla Browned Butter Glaze.
Notes
- * I used frozen berries for this loaf, knowing they will release water during baking. Therefore, I used 2 cups flour rather than 1 3/4 cups. Start with 1 3/4 cups, see how your batter looks, if you’re using fresh berries, that’s probably enough. If you’re using frozen berries AND the batter seems a bit thin, then add the additional 1/4 cup. Baking isn’t always an exact science especially when baking with two fruits and no two are ever exactly equal. Use your best judgement. 1/4 cup either way of flour really isn’t the biggest of deals.
- I baked 42 minutes total, and during the last 5 minutes, tented the pans with a sheet of foil so tops wouldn’t get too browned before centers cooked through. Baking times will vary based on moisture content of bananas, blueberries, climate, and oven variances. Bake until done; watch your bread, not the clock.
- Bread will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 1 week, or in the freezer for up to 6 months.
- Blueberry butter will keep airtight in the fridge for up to 1 week
- Adapted from Banana Yogurt Muffins and Little Banana Bread Loaf
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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This post was brought to you by Vitacost. Recipe and all opinions expressed are my own.
I love that you used coconut oil instead of butter! Gonna try this one!
This cake looks crazy good! I already made my grocery list :)
I’m making this to take for our Easter lunch at work. Is the yogurt fluid ounces or weight? Thanks
Just a little 6-ounce cup of yogurt. The size that’s most commonly sold at the grocery store.
I recently started using coconut oil and I LOVE it!
Your bread looks fabulous, Averie. And as always, lovely photos. Thanks for the Vitacost link. I’m going to check it out. I’m always checking for the best online deals on household and pantry staples. If it saves me a trip to the store, then I’m one happy gal! :)
Happy shopping :)
Beautiful! I think I will try and make this tonight! :)
If you try it LMK!
This looks beyond perfect! I love the blueberry butter too!
I am absolutely in love with this combination of blueberry muffins and banana bread! Such a wonderful idea to put the two together in one loaf! I love that you used brown sugar and coconut oil in this as well. It looks heavenly! :)
This is just what my week needs, love the brown sugar and blueberries!
Are you using full fat greek yogurt? or 2%? or fat free? Do you have a preference for this?
Any of the above will work. In this recipe, it’s not going to matter. I mean I think full, heavy-fat yogurt does make things taste slightly better (can be said for most anything, right!), but if it’s not worth the calories/fat to you, just use liter stuff.
Love this recipe – saw it on Pinterest this morning and was drooling over my morning coffee :) Thanks for sharing!
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I bet you know which of your readers will respond to your different posts. :) Not hard to figure out this is my kinda thing. Now I’m just mad because I used up my baking bananas last week in muffins. Darnit.
Yes I do know! And certain posts bring out a certain segment that normally never come out, i.e. like a cheesy baked egg dish will get totally different comments/readers than say gooey chocolate cookies. It’s actually pretty interesting for me to compare. If you try this one, LMK!
Blueberry butter?! WHOA! This bread is awesome!
This is one heavenly matchup for sure! Yum! Pinning!
What a perfect banana blueberry bread! Love it and pinned it!
Thanks for pinning!
Blueberry bread is one of my favorites too! Yours looks fantastic!
Blueberries are my aspirin.
Literally. I eat 2 cups a day (5 days a week) for my arthritis–they work wonders on the body.
So when I saw this post, I just have to steal the blueberry butter! Brilliant!
2 c a day? That’s awesome. I wish I could afford that. LOL Seriously those little buggers can be expensive but in relation to the big picture of life, if they make you feel great, that is awesome and whatever they cost, they’re your medicine so there’s no price :)