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Strawberry Banana Bread is a blend of fresh, juicy strawberries mixed with bananas that make this bread soft and moist in every slice. This is quick and easy bread that your family is going to love!
Bread is always a warm and delicious snack to have. If you love fresh baked bread try this Banana Bread Crumb Cake, Blueberry Banana Bread or Lemon Almond Poppyseed Quick Bread.
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Love this recipe! Always a perfect treat every time.
Strawberry Banana Bread
These winter months always have me craving fresh fruits and vegetables. With this quick and easy strawberry banana bread, you know that you are bringing summer back with every bite. It is warm, fresh and SO delicious! You will love this strawberry banana bread recipe and how easily it comes together.
This bread is a simple to make quick bread perfect for breakfast or as a snack! I love banana bread, but when you add fresh strawberries it takes this bread to a whole new level of deliciousness! And when this bread is baking in the oven, it makes your house smell amazing. Stop what you are doing and go preheat that oven!
What do I need to make Strawberry Banana Bread?
- Butter: Allow to soften on the counter or soften in microwave about 10 seconds.
- Granulated sugar: Adds sweetness
- Eggs: beaten
- Bananas: Use very ripe and mashed with a fork or mixer
- Flour: Gives structure to the bread.
- Baking soda: Leavening agent that causes the bread to rise.
- Salt: Just a pinch
- Fresh strawberries: Chopped & tossed in flour
How to Make Baked Bread
- Prep: Preheat oven to 375F degrees. Spray two 9×5 loaf pan with nonstick spray. Set aside.
- Large bowl: In a large bowl, using a KitchenAid Stand Mixer with paddle attachment cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Small bowl: In a small bowl, beat eggs using a fork. Add eggs to sugar mixture and beat until combined. Add mashed bananas and mix until combined.
- Sift dry ingredients: Sift all dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, and salt. Slowly add sifted dry ingredients to banana mixture and mix until flour is just combined. DO NOT OVER MIX! Fold in floured covered strawberries.
Bake: Pour batter into prepared loaf pans and bake at 375*F for 15 minutes. REDUCE heat to 350*F and bake for an additional 30 minutes until edges are slightly brown or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Let cool completely before removing from loaf pans.
Variations and Substitutions
- Butter: Salted butter will also work for this. Just leave out the pinch of salt.
- Sugar: If you love a little more sweetness, substitute white sugar for brown sugar or going healthier try coconut sugar.
- Bananas: Use frozen bananas by thawing them overnight at room temperature. If there is any liquid from the bananas, simply discard that before mashing in the recipe.
- Chocolate chips: Who can resist chocolate! Chocolate chips can be sprinkled on top, in the batter or both!
- Nuts or seeds: I do love walnuts but pecans, sunflower seeds or pecans also make for an added soft crunch.
- Fresh Local fruit: Use whatever you find that looks amazing at your local farmers market. Try cranberries, blueberries or raspberries change this banana bread into something fresh and fruity!
More Delicious Strawberry Baking Recipes
- Strawberry Banana Oat Muffins
- Homemade Strawberry Cake
- Strawberry Cinnamon Roll Muffins with Cream Cheese Glaze
- Perfect Strawberry Shortcake
- Strawberry Cinnamon Rolls
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Ingredients
- ½ cup softened unsalted butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 3 ripe mashed bananas
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups chopped strawberries,
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Add ½ cup softened unsalted butter and 1 cup granulated sugar to a large bowl. Using an electric hand mixer, cream together until light and fluffy.
- In a small bowl, beat 2 large eggs using a fork. Add the eggs to the sugar mixture and mix until combined.
- Add 3 ripe mashed bananas to the sugar mixture and mix until combined.
- Toss 1 ½ cups chopped strawberries, with 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour. Fold the floured-covered strawberries into the batter.
- Divide and pour the batter into the prepared loaf pans.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes. REDUCE the heat to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for an additional 30 minutes. The bread is done when the edges are slightly brown or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Let cool completely before removing from loaf pans.
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This turned out great! I used frozen (thawed) blackberries and bananas, and baked it in a Bundt pan. The baking time you listed was spot-on, even though I made it in one pan. Very moist! Will definitely make this again and change up the fruits!
Should note that this makes two loaf pans worth
I made a mistake and cut the recipe in half. LOL My husband loved it so much I had to make it two days in a row.
Would frozen strawberries work? If it does, can you let me know what changes I needed to make. Thanks.
Yes, you can use frozen strawberries, but you should thoroughly thaw them, drain any liquid, and pat them dry with paper towels before using them. You should still toss them with the flour after they’ve dried (step 6). Let me know how they turn out!
Love this recipe! Always a perfect treat every time.
Alyssa I made this before and now making it again. Such a great, easy, and delicious recipe!! Thank you so much for sharing!
Not my first time making this breads but it is the first time I used yours as my ‘guidelines’ for making it.
Absolutely wonderful!
I’m not one to follow each detail or directions when it comes to baking. I love reading everybody’s versions and then coming up with my own. I rarely write down how much or what I put in it but it always seems to come out scrumptious. My friends don’t care what I’m baking as long as I am baking they come over.
Your recipe is great and so easy but here are my changes/additions:
None. It was that good! The only thing I did was make some icing out of strawberry puree, powdered sugar, almond milk & a splash of orange juice. It was divine!
Yum! Thanks for sharing! I’m so glad it turned out and your icing sounds amazing!
This is excellent! The only thing I did different was bake it in a 13x 9 pan for 350 for about 40 minutes. No changes to ingredients or measurements.
I did this too. I only have one loaf pan and didn’t realize it was enough for 2. Came out great!
Hi Alyssa,
I am very interested in making this recipe and wondered if I wanted to make only 1 load pan, would I halve all the ingredients? Thank you!
Hi Eileen, thank you for the question. Yes you can cut this recipe in half to make one loaf. Let me know how it turns out!
I’m a teenager who’s obsessed with sugar and this was really good. A great way to use up the borderline fermented bananas. I nor my mom likes cooked fruit (apples are an exception), and I didn’t have enough, so I only used 1 cup of strawberries and 2 bananas. Thus, it was a little less flavorful, but I also reduced the… Flavors, lol. Nice idea, would do again if I need to use strawberries and bananas 🙂
Just made this recipe did not like it , it did not rise at all and I followed recipe to the T. I think if I make it again I will no divide in 2 pans I ended up throwing it out
Hi Sandy, I’m so sorry to hear your bread didn’t turn out. Have you checked the expiration on your baking soda? That can have an affect on if the bread will rise. Again, I’m sorry to hear that you spent the time and effort to make something that you couldn’t even enjoy, that sounds super frustrating!
Delicious! Came out perfect the first time I made it. Added vanilla.
Second time…To make it a little less caloric…Used half monkfruit and half sugar. And used half of the butter and added some applesauce.
I didn’t have loaf pan, so I used a cake pan, looks and smells good, I added a bit of vanilla extract.
Very good bread! I made it EXACTLY as detailed in the recipe and the results were a flavorful, soft, and moist bread. It’s was devoured in one day.