This Cottage Cheese Banana Bread is the ultimate soft, moist and delicious banana bread to make. It’s a gluten-free, made with almond flour and it is lower in sugar and higher in protein compared to your typical banana bread.
PREPARATION TIME:
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 50 mins
- Total Time: 55 mins
Ingredients
- 2 ripe bananas, mashed
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup cottage cheese
- 3 tablespoons maple syrup (adjust to taste if you want sweeter)
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups almond flour**
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- Optional mix-in’s: walnuts, chocolate chips or blueberries are all great
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a loaf pan with parchment paper and grease
- In a large bowl, mix together the bananas, eggs, cottage cheese, maple syrup and vanilla until smooth
- Mix in the almond flour, baking soda and cinnamon until fully combined (depending on the brand cottage cheese you use, it may be chunky – that is ok!)
- Pour batter into loaf pan and bake in oven for about 50 minutes, covering with foil after 30 minutes or so if the top is starting to brown a bit
- Remove from oven once cooked (I stick a toothpick in to test)
- Allow the bread to cool then slice and enjoy!
Notes
*Store banana bread in airtight container for 3 days, 5 days in fridge or 2 months in freezer
**Gluten-free baking flour and all purpose flour are not 1:1 subs for almond flour
