Description
This Cottage Cheese Banana Bread is the ultimate soft, moist and delicious banana bread to make. It’s gluten-free, made with almond flour, and it is lower in sugar and higher in protein compared to your typical banana bread.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 ripe bananas, mashed
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup cottage cheese
- 3 tablespoons maple syrup (adjust to taste if you want sweeter)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups almond flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- Optional mix-ins: walnuts, chocolate chips or blueberries
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 (it’s okay if the cottage cheese is a bit chunky).
- Pour batter into loaf pan and bake for about 50 minutes, covering with foil after 30 minutes if the top is browning.
- Remove from oven and test doneness with a toothpick.
- Allow to cool, slice and enjoy!
Notes
*Store banana bread in an airtight container for 3 days, 5 days in the fridge, or 2 months in the freezer. **Gluten-free baking flour and all-purpose flour are not 1:1 substitutes for almond flour.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 285
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 176mg
- Fat: 20g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Unsaturated Fat: N/A
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 20g
- Fiber: 5g
- Protein: 11g
- Cholesterol: 64mg