Brown Butter Banana Bread

This is the ultimate banana bread recipe! If you're in the mood for some brown butter - this recipe is for you. Try this Brown Butter Banana Bread featuring super ripe bananas, perfectly browned butter and a handful of pantry staples. Baking this banana bread will leave you with the most moist, flavorful banana bread you've ever tried. This one has a protein-packed twist you won’t see coming!

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Servings: loaf

Author: Teri-Ann Carty

Prep Time: 15

Cook Time: 45

Total Time: 1

Equipment

Ingredients

1 stick unsalted butter browned
⅓ cup coconut sugar
2 ripe bananas
¾ cup cottage cheese
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1½ cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp fine sea salt

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Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place parchment into a standard loaf tin and set aside.
Place a stick of butter into a small sauce pan over medium high heat. Once it starts to melt, use a rubber spatula to stir, swirling the pan frequently. The butter will start to froth, keep swirling. After about 1 minute you will see the colour under the foamy butter change. Remove from the heat and keep swirling the pan. Let it come to room temperature. If it’s still warm, that is also perfectly ok.
Add mashed bananas, sugar and brown butter to a large bowl and whisk to combine.
Add eggs, cottage cheese and vanilla and whisk again.
In a separate bowl whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
Add dry to wet. Mix well until no dry ingredients remain.
Transfer batter to the prepared tin. Smooth out the top. Draw a line down the middle of the batter with your spatula to help form a “crack” once baked.
Bake for 45-55* minutes until a toothpick comes out with a few crumbs. Be careful not to overcook.
Allow the bread to rest for 10 minutes in the tin before removing to cool on a wire rack.

Notes

*Oven temperatures vary. I had to tent my banana bread with tinfoil at the halfway mark because the top was browning quickly. Check your bread at the 45 minute mark and continue to bake until a toothpick cones out clean with a few crumbs.

Nutrition

*Macros are provided as an estimate for convenience. Your final numbers will vary depending on ingredient brands, substitutions, and how you portion the recipe.