NO BUTTER Banana Bread recipe is easy to make and makes a fluffy, moist bread! It’s so good you won’t miss the butter at all (also easy to make vegan).
How to Make a Moist Bread
I know you’re thinking “There’s no butter in this, so how’s it going to be moist? How’s it going to be fluffy? Pamela, are you lying to me?”
I would never lie to you about something as serious as Banana Bread! The truth is that by adding applesauce, we’re making a extremely moist bread, so moist you won’t even know there’s butter missing in it! Applesauce is my baking secret, it’s such a great substitution for butter, and it cuts back on the calories a whole lot!
Ingredients for No Butter Banana Bread
Here’s everything you need to make this banana bread without butter!
- 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups mashed banana
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
How to Make, Step by Step Directions
This bread is easy to make, it only takes about 10 minutes. Add your applesauce (make sure it’s unsweetened) to a bowl along with white sugar and brown sugar. If you’re trying to cut back on sugar, you can def try to lower the amounts of sugar a little bit. Use a hand mixer to mix those 3 ingredients together.
Beat in your eggs (vegan? read below for substitute), mashed bananas and vanilla. Word of advise, the riper the banana, the better tasting this banana bread will get. You know those brown bananas you have been ignoring on your counter top? They are PERFECT for this bread!
Now add your all purpose flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon and keep on mixing. OOOH, that cinnamon smells so good, doesn’t it? Finally add 1/4 cup of the chopped walnuts into the bowl and stir with a spoon.
Pour this batter into a loaf pan that’s been been sprayed with nonstick spray. Sprinkle the remaining 1/4 cup walnuts on top of the bread. Bake for 45-50 minutes, this produces a moist bread, instead of a bread that’s most chewy and over baked.
Allow to cool for about 15 minutes before removing from pan, and then dive in! Dessert, breakfast, snack, whatever. Enjoy this No Butter Banana Bread!
How to Make Vegan Banana Bread
Making this into a Vegan Banana Bread is easy! The only ingredient you have to substitute is flax eggs for regular eggs. That’s it, now you have a complete vegan banana bread!
Can I turn these into muffins?
Yes, you can. Just adjust the time to 35 minutes instead of 1 hour.
Looking for More No Butter Recipes?
- No Butter Pancakes
- No Butter Waffles
- Dairy Free Mashed Potatoes
- Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies
- Vegan Chocolate Fudge
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No Butter Banana Bread
PrintIngredients
- 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups mashed banana
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray a 9×5 loaf pan with nonstick spray.
- Add applesauce, white sugar and brown sugar in large bowl and mix with hand mixer until combined. Beat in eggs, mashed bananas and vanilla.
- Add flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon and continue mixing. Add 1/4 cup chopped walnuts and stir with a spoon.
- Pour batter into loaf pan. Sprinkle 1/4 cup remaining walnuts on top of the bread. Bake for 45-50 minutes (or until toothpick comes out clean).
- Allow to cool for 15 minutes.
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