Coconut Macadamia Banana Bread
The taste of sweet coconut alongside macadamia nuts and banana bring you this delicious and fluffy bread for all to enjoy!
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Equipment
- mixing bowls
- rubber spatula
- whisk
- kitchen scale optional but recommended
- parchment paper optional
- 9x5 baking loaf pan
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cup all purpose flour 230g
- ½ cup unsalted butter, melted 113g
- ½ cup sugar 100g
- ¼ cup light brown sugar, packed 50g
- 2 large ripe bananas
- 2 large eggs room temperature
- 3 tbsp full fat sour cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp fine sea salt
- ¾ cup unsweetened coconut, shredded plus extra for topping
- ½ cup roasted chopped macadamia plus extra for topping
Instructions
- Whisk all purpose flour, baking soda, salt and coconut. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, melt butter and allow to cool.
- Combine butter, bananas, sour cream, sugars, eggs and vanilla into one bowl and whisk well. Make sure to combine all ingredients well.
- Add dry ingredients and fold in with rubber spatula. Fold until only a few streaks of flour remain.
- Add macadamia nuts and fold into batter gently. Try not to over mix.
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Line a 9x5 loaf pan with parchment paper or butter and flour.
- Pour batter into loaf pan, and then top with a few more macadamia nuts and shredded coconut.
- Bake for 60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out with only some crumbs on it.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for about 60 minutes in loaf pan before removing and letting cool on cooling rack.
Notes
Weigh Your Ingredients. You will have a better chance of success with this recipe if you weigh your ingredients.
Use Ripe Bananas. Or in other words, brown spotted bananas. The bananas need to be ripe in order to work well within the batter and lend to a moist bread. Using non-ripe (green or all yellow) bananas may leave the bread tough and not as moist as it could be.
Loaf Pan. You can either butter and flour the loaf pan, or spray with baking spray and lay a piece of parchment inside. Spray with more baking spray and then add in batter.
Don't Skip On The Nuts. Yes, Macadamia nuts can be pricey but they really help elevate the taste factor in this recipe.
Over mixing is going to overdevelop the gluten and cause the bread to get gummy. So make sure when folding in the dry ingredients you do it gently and stop when you see just the barest of flour streaks remaining.
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