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Blueberry Banana Bread

Prep15 min
Cook65 min
Total1 hr 20 min + cooling
YieldOne 9×5 loaf · 10 slices
DifficultyEasy

Ingredients

  • 1 3/4 cupsall-purpose flour, plus 1 tbsp for the berries
  • 1 tspbaking soda
  • 1/2 tspfine salt
  • 1/2 tspground cinnamon
  • 3very ripe bananas, mashed (about 1 1/2 cups)
  • 3/4 cuplight brown sugar, packed
  • 1/2 cupunsalted butter, melted
  • 2large eggs
  • 1/4 cupplain yogurt or sour cream
  • 2 tspvanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cupsfresh blueberries≈ 148 median blueberries

Steps

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease a 9×5-inch loaf pan and line with a parchment sling.
  2. Whisk the 1 3/4 cups flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon in a bowl.
  3. In a large bowl, stir mashed bananas with brown sugar, melted butter, eggs, yogurt, and vanilla until smooth.
  4. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet until just barely combined — a few streaks of flour are fine.
  5. Toss the blueberries with 1 tablespoon flour and fold in with three or four strokes.
  6. Scrape into the pan and bake 60–65 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean. Tent with foil at 40 minutes if the top darkens early.
  7. Cool in the pan 15 minutes, then lift out and cool completely before slicing.

Notes

  • The bananas must be genuinely overripe — heavily spotted or black. Yellow bananas give you bland bread.
  • Slicing warm banana bread tears it. Wait for it to cool fully.
A 100-gram serving of blueberries contains roughly 160 mg of anthocyaninsLaid end-to-end at 12.7 mm apiece, it would take about 30 billion berries to reach the MoonThe world's largest blueberry weighed 16.2 grams — a Guinness record set in Australia in 2020Wild lowbush blueberries are about 40% smaller than cultivated highbush onesThe United States and Canada together produce roughly half of the world's cultivated blueberriesA 100-gram serving of blueberries contains roughly 160 mg of anthocyaninsLaid end-to-end at 12.7 mm apiece, it would take about 30 billion berries to reach the MoonThe world's largest blueberry weighed 16.2 grams — a Guinness record set in Australia in 2020Wild lowbush blueberries are about 40% smaller than cultivated highbush onesThe United States and Canada together produce roughly half of the world's cultivated blueberries