Blueberry Banana Nut Bread

Description

Delicious and moist. It’s more like a cake than a bread. Looks as good as it tastes and easy to make. Also great with a little spread of lemon curd.

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cups fresh blueberries
  • 2 tablespoons cake flour
  • ½ cup steel-cut oats
  • ½ cup chopped pecans
  • 1 ½ cups cake flour
  • 3 tablespoons cake flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ¼ cup Greek yogurt
  • ¼ cup applesauce
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup mashed banana
  • 2 tablespoons cold butter
  • ¼ cup brown sugar

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 4 1/2×8 1/2-inch loaf pan.
  2. Stir and coat blueberries with 2 tablespoons cake flour in a bowl.
  3. Mix coated blueberries
  4. oats
  5. pecans
  6. 1 1/2 cups plus 3 tablespoons cake flour
  7. baking soda
  8. and salt in a bowl.
  9. Beat white sugar
  10. 1/2 cup brown sugar
  11. Greek yogurt
  12. and applesauce together in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs
  13. one at a time; beat after each addition. Add vanilla extract and mashed banana; beat lightly until well blended.
  14. Stir blueberry-flour mixture into yogurt mixture until just moistened. Spoon batter into prepared pan. Cut butter into 1/4 cup brown sugar in a small bowl until crumbly; sprinkle over batter.
  15. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean
  16. about 55 minutes. Cool in the pan for 15 minutes; remove from pan and cool on wire rack for 1 hour.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 55 mins

Total Time: 2 hrs 30 mins

Servings: 12

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