This cookie butter banana bread has been a long time coming, but was worth the wait. A warning: be prepared to go full-on Cookie Monster on this bread once you get a waft of it.
What is this? Two banana-based recipes in a row?? Surely a food blogger wouldn’t allow this redundancy! Except that one involves pie and the other (hint: this one) involves cookie butter so I think we can all agree: Mmmk, yeah, two banana recipes in a row is totally fine! Maybe even three or four if you make my chocolate chip banana bread or chocolate banana bread recipe next!
This recipe has been a thought bubble in my head for a really long period of time.
If you’ve never tried cookie butter before, we can’t be friends. We can totally be friends — but I will introduce you to cookie butter. It tastes just like those Biscoff cookies of magical, miraculous, heavenly deliciousness you get on airplanes but it’s spreadable and spoonable and quite honestly one of the best things about life as we know it. If that’s not enough of a ringing endorsement for you to get thee to the grocery store and pick up a jar or 5,000, I don’t know what is. Except that it tastes even better in banana bread.
As any good banana bread should be, this loaf is dense, soft and full of flavor. The banana and cookie butter flavors both come through in every sweet, yummy bite and, like a fine wine or cheese, it tastes better with age. So I suggest baking a few loaves — one for the freezer, one for the kitchen counter and one for your immediate gobbling needs. And there will be immediate gobbling needs. You will also love this Homemade Vegan Banana Bread and sourdough banana bread!
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Cookie Butter Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3 medium bananas, very ripe
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup packed light brown sugar
- ½ cup creamy cookie butter, sometimes called Biscoff Spread, or Speculoos Cookie Butter at Trader Joe’s
- ⅓ cup milk
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
- 2 eggs
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F (325 degrees F if using a dark or nonstick pan). Grease and flour the bottom and sides of an 8 ½-by-4 ½-inch OR 9-by-5-inch loaf pan.
- In a large bowl or bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, stir together flour, baking soda and salt until combined. In a separate large bowl, mash bananas until smooth. Add sugars, cookie butter, milk, oil, vanilla and eggs. Whisk until combined and mostly smooth.
- Pour banana mixture into flour mixture; stir until just combined. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan; smooth top with a spatula.
- Bake 1 hour 15 minutes until deep golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Tent with foil during baking if the top of the loaf is browning too quickly.
- Cool bread 10 minutes in pan, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely before slicing.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Yes to Cookie Butter! I’ve actually been craving banana bread for a while, this could be the perfect thing.
Banana bread should always include cookie butter!
Eileen — Absolutely!
Yes please! I have a jar of cookie butter in my pantry that I purchased for ‘baking’ but has been slowly destroyed by the spoonful. This bread is the perfect excuse for a fresh one!
One can never have enough banana recipes! I’m sorry to hear about your allergy but thank you for thinking of us and creating amazing banana recipes anyway! This looks so beautiful, Stephanie. Your photos are incredible and that loaf – it’s perfectly fluffy and moist inside. I can just taste how good the cookie butter and banana flavours go together. I hope you get more sleep, lady!
Cookie butter is seriously so addictive – I can’t buy it often because I just eat way too many spoonfuls! haha This banana bread looks fantastic … although now you have me wanting to buy a jar of cookie butter… no good! lol
could I use peanut butter in place of the cookie butter?
This bread looks absolutely amazing and something I’d LOVE with my cup of coffee in the morning!!
I can already tell this is going to a staple recipe in my house! Yum!!
YES! This is my new favorite banana bread. I just know it.