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My family loves banana bread! In fact, so do all my co-workers and all of mu husbands co-workers at the Fire Station. It’s always a hit whenever I send one down no matter the variety. So, yesterday when I was daydreaming about the flavors of the tropics, I decided I could easily combine those flavors together in a simply, yet amazing, banana bread.
This Tropical banana Bread version turned out very moist and delicious and was an instant hit.
My husband, who is not normally a sweets person, practically forbade me to send the second loaf into work.
Got a sweet tooth? Check out these other recipes:
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Tropical Banana Bread
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 60 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hours 10 minutes
- Yield: 2 loaves 1x
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Tropical Banana Bread is very moist and delicious and will be an instant hit with your family
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Ingredients
- For the bread
- 1/2 cup of oil (canola, vegetable or applesauce)
- 2 cups of white sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- 2 cups of All purpose flour
- 1 cup of whole wheat flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 medium ripe bananas, mashed
- 1 cup sweetened shredded coconut, toasted
- 1/2 cup of macadamia nuts (optional)
- For the Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp water
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 °F. Coat two 8″ x 4″ loaf pans with cooking spray.
- Place the oil, sugar, vanilla, and eggs together in a bowl and beat with a mixer on low until creamy. Combine the dry ingredients in a separate bowl and mix well. Slowly add the flour mixture to the sugar mixture. Add the bananas, pineapple and coconut stir until combined. Pour into the prepared loaf pans.
- Bake for about 60 to 70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool on a rack.
- Mix powdered sugar with water, 1 teaspoon at a time, to reach the desired consistency of a thick royal icing.
- Drizzle the top of the cooled cake with royal icing.
- Category: Bread
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 4 oz
- Calories: 540
- Sugar: 68.8 g
- Sodium: 447 mg
- Fat: 22.1 g
- Saturated Fat: 12.1 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 0 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 86 g
- Fiber: 2.6 g
- Protein: 4.7 g
- Cholesterol: 59 mg
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This banana bread is very moist and tender and benefits from the added pop from fresh coconut. My husband loves banana bread so I made this for Father’s day. He loved it.
★★★★★