Cranberry banana bread is delicious, simple, easy & super moist eggless homemade banana bread from scratch made using leftover fresh cranberries from the holidays, ripe bananas, butter and sugar! Also try this easy, delicious cranberry sauce bread with leftover cranberry sauce if you have leftover cranberry sauce!
If you have unused cranberries or leftover fresh cranberries from the holidays and if you have leftover ripe or overripe bananas, this is an easy, but great recipe to make use of the cranberries and bananas.
The addition of sour cranberries to sweet banana bread makes this a delicious tangy and sweet bread that also looks colorful and festive so it's also great for holidays like Christmas Thanksgiving etc or any time you have fresh cranberries and ripe bananas.
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homemade moist banana bread with cranberries
The texture of this cranberry banana bread is very moist, soft and buttery. This is not a vegan recipe though it is eggless, since we use butter in this banana bread. Adding butter to this banana bread gives this bread the best flavor and makes it more rich.
However, if you want to make it vegan, you may use any butter substitute or use olive oil. Along with fresh cranberries, you may also add chocolate chips, raisins, chopped nuts like walnuts etc if you want more varieties and flavors in the banana bread. So here is how you can make easy, delicious homemade moist banana bread with cranberries in it.
how to make moist cranberry banana bread using leftover cranberries?
To make moist cranberry banana bread, we use the following ingredients.
ingredients used to make cranberry banana bread
- cranberries 12 oz
- ripe bananas 2 large
- self rising flour 1.5 cups
- sugar 1 cup
- butter ½ cup melted (1 stick of butter)
- vanilla extract 1 teaspoon
step by step instructions
- Add the dry flour to a large mixing bowl.
- Also add the sugar to the same bowl, mix well so the sugar is combined evenly with the flour.
- Place the washed cranberries in a different large bowl.
- Mash the bananas and add it to the bowl with cranberries, mix well to combine with the cranberries.
- Mix the melted butter with vanilla extract in a different bowl and add this butter vanilla mixture to the cranberry banana mixture.
- Stir well so the cranberry banana mixture is well combined with the butter vanilla mixture.
- Pour this wet ingredients mixture (cranberry banana mixture mixed with butter) to the dry flour mixture.
- Stir well to combine sothe flour and cranberry banana mixture is evenly mixed, also make sure there is no dry flour left at the bottom of the bowl.
- Now the batter for cranberry banana bread is ready!
To bake cranberry banana bread:
- Preheat oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit.
- Grease a baking pan with butter or oil and you may line it with parchment paper.
- Pour the prepared bread batter to the prepared baking pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven for about 45 minutes until the cake is beginning to brown on top. Then increase the oven temperature to 375 degree Fahrenheit and bake for another 15 minutes or until the bread is baked through completely.
- To make sure, you may use a toothpick, if the toothpick inserted to the center of the bread comes out clean without any wet flour mixture, the bread is done.
- If the top of the bread is browned and the inside is not completely cooked, cover the bread with good quality aluminium foil and bake for another few more minutes (about 10 minutes) until the bread is completely baked.
- When the bread is completely done, the inside will be cooked completely and the top of the bread will be golden brown in color, there will also be cracks on top of the bread once it is done completely.
- Once the bread is baked, transfer the bread immediately from the hot oven to avoid over baking.
- Allow the bread to cool down, and once it is cooled enough, slice and serve!
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Below you can get the recipe for moist cranberry banana bread in detail.
Cranberry Banana Bread With Leftover Cranberries
Ingredients
- 12 oz cranberries
- 2 large ripe bananas
- 1.5 cups self rising flour
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup butter melted (1 stick of butter)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Add the dry flour to a large mixing bowl.
- Also add the sugar to the same bowl, mix well so the sugar is combined evenly with the flour.
- Place the washed cranberries in a different large bowl.
- Mash the bananas and add it to the bowl with cranberries, mix well to combine with the cranberries.
- Mix the melted butter with vanilla extract in a different bowl and add this butter vanilla mixture to the cranberry banana mixture.
- Stir well so the cranberry banana mixture is well combined with the butter vanilla mixture.
- Pour this wet ingredients mixture (cranberry banana mixture mixed with butter) to the dry flour mixture.
- Stir well to combine sothe flour and cranberry banana mixture is evenly mixed, also make sure there is no dry flour left at the bottom of the bowl.
- Now the batter for cranberry banana bread is ready!
To bake cranberry banana bread:
- Preheat oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit.
- Grease a baking pan with butter or oil and you may line it with parchment paper.
- Pour the prepared bread batter to the prepared baking pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven for about 45 minutes until the cake is beginning to brown on top. Then increase the oven temperature to 375 degree Fahrenheit and bake for another 15 minutes or until the bread is baked through completely.
- To make sure, you may use a toothpick, if the toothpick inserted to the center of the bread comes out clean without any wet flour mixture, the bread is done.
- If the top of the bread is browned and the inside is not completely cooked, cover the bread with good quality aluminium foil and bake for another few more minutes (about 10 minutes) until the bread is completely baked.
- When the bread is completely done, the inside will be cooked completely and the top of the bread will be golden brown in color, there will also be cracks on top of the bread once it is done completely.
- Once the bread is baked, transfer the bread immediately from the hot oven to avoid over baking.
- Allow the bread to cool down, and once it is cooled enough, slice and serve!
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