Wild Blueberry Banana Bread

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I'm not a baker, I've never been a baker, so you know any baking recipe I have for you is going to be delicious but it's going to be simple. This blueberry banana bread is exactly that PLUS it's genuinely bursting with blueberries.

Blueberry banana bread on an antique flow blue plate set on wood table.

I feel like this is a very good post. It isn't too long, has pretty pictures, a foolproof delicious recipe and good tips. Please enjoy.

Soooooo, I turned an Amazon package into 4 cups of wild blueberries this week. It was easy enough to do.

I noticed one of my neighbours had a package at their front door but also knew they were away. I texted them about it, put the package somewhere safe and 3 days later I found 4 cups of wild blueberries from Muskoka on my porch.

That's how being neighbourly works.

Because I'm more of a savoury loving person, I don't make a lot of desserty recipes unless you count my Thanksgiving white trash marshmallow salad as a dessert. Which really it is.

Even the pie dough recipe I will use for the rest of my life came about because I was in search of a perfect pie dough for my turkey pot pie.

Table of Contents

The Video

Ingredients

This quick bread uses basic pantry ingredients and yes, you can obviously use regular as opposed to wild blueberries.

butter
sugar
eggs
mashed banana
lemon juice
quick rolled oats
pecans
flour
salt
baking soda
wild blueberries

See recipe card for quantities.

Homemade blueberry banana bread cooked in a cast iron pan and served on blue and white plate.

Blueberry banana bread cooked in a cast iron pan and served on blue and white plate.

Instructions

The gist of it is ...

Creamed butter and sugar in stand mixer.

Cream together butter & sugar until light and fluffy before adding eggs, banana and lemon juice.

Pecans, oats, flour, salt and other dry ingredients in ironstone bowl.

Combine the oats, pecans, flour, salt and baking soda then add to the creamed ingredients and mix.

Blueberry banana bread batter mixed in stand mixer.

Once mixed, gently fold in the final ingredient - the blueberries.

Blueberry banana quick bread dough poured into parchment lined cast iron pan.

Pour into 5x9" loaf pan and bake at 350 for about an hour.

Hint: I'm not sure how, but this magically develops better flavour after sitting for a few hours, so hands off until then if you can. Use the time to get caught up on all the other household chores you've been neglecting like reading books and watching television.

See this chocolate banana (zucchini!) smoothie on my website if you still have bananas leftover after this recipe.

Equipment

This recipe is easy to mix by hand but I love the decals I made for my Kitchen Aid so much that I use it whenever possible. No, seriously. I LOVE my elderly stand mixer now.

Storage

You can store this bread in a plastic bag or wrapped in foil but ...

I store my banana bread on the counter in the pan I cooked it in with a kitchen towel wrapped around the whole thing.

To Freeze:

Wrap individual slices in waxed paper and place them in a freezer bag. Remove single servings as wanted until you run out of them and cry.

Top tip

If you need to ripen your bananas faster or SLOWER do this!

Wild Blueberry Banana Bread

Yield: 1 loaf

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour

Additional Time: 3 hours

Total Time: 4 hours 20 minutes

This quick bread is true to its name; a quick delicious banana bread overflowing with juicy blueberries.

Ingredients

½ cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup mashed bananas
1 tbsp. lemon juice
½ cup quick rolled oats
½ cup chopped pecans or walnuts
1 ½ cups flour
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup blueberries

Instructions

Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. You can use a mixer as I have or just do it by hand.
Add the eggs one at a time and beat well after each egg.
Blend in mashed banana & lemon juice. Set aside.
Combine oats, pecans, flour, salt and baking soda in a separate medium sized bowl.
Add dry mixture to wet mixture and stir until dry ingredients are all moistened.
Gently fold in your final ingredient - blueberries.
Spoon the batter into a parchment lined (or buttered) 5X9" loaf pan.
Bake at 350 for 60 minutes or until a wood skewer comes out clean.
Let rest for 15 minutes in pan, then remove the bread to a wire rack for cooling for 3 hours.

Notes

If the bread is darkening too much on top cover it with foil or parchment paper.
Once it's cooled completely you can slice it and freeze in individual portions so you can warm a piece up, slather it in butter and enjoy on winter nights as you stare out at the blizzard.

Nutrition Information

Yield 12 Serving Size 1
Amount Per Serving Calories 270Total Fat 12gSaturated Fat 5gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 6gCholesterol 51mgSodium 227mgCarbohydrates 38gFiber 2gSugar 20gProtein 4g

FAQ

Out of Baking Soda?

Baking soda and baking powder serve the same purpose - to give rise to anything. Even men, if it's vaguely shaped like boobs.

Substitute baking soda with baking powder at a 1:3 ratio.

Therefore 1 teaspoon of baking soda should be substituted with 3 teaspoon of baking powder.

I don't know about you, but I'm smashing as much into my freezer and preserving as many things as possible before the first snowflake flies. I'm very serious about my winter hibernation.

And protecting neighbourhood packages.

Wild Blueberry Banana Bread

The Video

Ingredients

Instructions

Equipment