If you love banana bread, then you’ll LOVE this banana bread breakfast bake! Soft, doughy, and loaded with banana flavour — like a slice of banana bread without any refined sugars or oils!
I admit defeat… Remember that big banana stash I boasted about a little while back? Well, I think I bit off more than I could chew because I ended up not being able to finish those suckers off before they started turning spotty black… which is crazy because I eat a lot (read: ~3 a day) of bananas!
But I love them, and it actually makes me sad to see bananas getting such a bad rap in today’s diet and weight loss obsessed world, because they’re easily one of my favourite foods and I find that my digestion, energy, and even mood improve when I include more of them in my diet… which isn’t surprising considering all of their amazing health benefits.
What isn’t as amazing is trying to figure out what to do with a bunch of spotty black ones. Don’t get me wrong — I love my bananas extra ripe — but not to the point where they mash themselves while they’re still in the peel. Know what I mean?
Thankfully, self-mashed bananas not only save me a little bit of arm work in the kitchen, but they also happen to taste extra sweet in baked goods… which only further proves my theory that baking is the best solution to so many of life’s little problems. The only question is… what to bake? Banana breads are an obvious choice — as are muffins and mug cakes — but I wanted something a little different… something like a banana bread breakfast bake…
Say hello to what’s been my breakfast for the past 4 days. Well, the base of my breakfast, anyways — my actual breakfast looked a little more like this…
… because as good as bananas and banana breads taste, they taste even better when paired with [chocolate] almond butter. Just sayin’. I suppose you could go the peanut butter route if you had to, but don’t tell me about it because it’ll make my allergy-ridden heart all sorts of sad #teamABforlife.
As for the breakfast bake itself, there really isn’t a whole lot to say about it besides that it straight up feels like eating a slice of banana bread… a banana bread that comes together in a flash and doesn’t contain any added refined sugars or oils. It’s soft, it’s doughy, it’s banana-y, and it can easily be made gluten-free (by using GF flour), or vegan (by swapping honey for maple syrup/agave)… which means banana bread breakfast bakes for ALL. Yay!
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Banana Bread Breakfast Bake
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Yield: 1 serving 1x
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup rolled oats
- 2 Tbsp. oat bran
- 2 Tbsp flour of choice*
- 1/4 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- pinch of salt
- 1 ripe banana, mashed (about 1/2 cup)
- 1/4 cup vanilla almond milk
- 1 Tbsp. honey
- 2–3 Tbsp. add-ins of choice (chocolate chips, nuts, etc.)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F, and lightly spray an individual sized ramekin with cooking oil.
- In a medium bowl, combine oats, oat bran, flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
- In a separate bowl, combine banana, almond milk, and honey.
- Add wet to dry and gently stir to combine. Fold in any add-ins and transfer to prepared ramekin.
- Bake for 25 – 30 minutes, and allow to cool before adding toppings of your choice.
Notes
* Any flour will work. Use a gluten-free flour to make this gluten-free.
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 25 mins
Looking for more breakfast bake recipes? Try one of these!
Pumpkin Pie Breakfast Bake
Blueberry Muffin Breakfast Bake
Oatmeal Cookie Dough Breakfast Bake
I chopped up 3 pitted dates as my add in, and used coconut flour …….. AMAZING! I didn’t even need to add anything on top 😀
Hey Amanda – great blog! Love this banana-bread for breakfast idea. Nothing like a little banana bread to brighten up the day. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
totally drooling right now!
I am a banana bread enthusiast you might say so I was thrilled to happen across your post. I will definitely be trying this – what a great way to start your day off!
Can you come over and make this for me? I unpacked all the ramekins and flours so I think you have everything you need 🙂 xo
Oh wow Amanda!! This breakfast bake looks absolutely incredible!! I love banana bread and I’m sure this would be my favorite. Your pictures are amazing too! That vintage spoon – LOVE! Pinned 🙂
I’m team…equal opportunist. I’ll eat both nut butters, but usually only buy almond butter these days. This looks so easy and SO good, I must try.
YUM!! This looks amazing!! …and it’s refined sugar free?? Double win! I love banana bread! 🙂
This looks unbelievably delicious. I love banana bread, but hate having a whole loaf because I eat it all :O
This looks delicious! I’m always looking for new breakfast ideas so I can’t wait to give this one a try!
Since I get super sick from eggs, I use mashed banana as my binder for EVERYTHING. I COULD use applesauce, but the flavor and mushiness that a black banana gives is un-replaceable! Like gooey banana pancakes…oh lord help me….
I can’t afford to eat nanners more than once a week (starving college student here) and they MUST be black for me to eat ’em. I don’t do none of that bitter yellow stuff.
And ALMOND BUTTER ALL THE WAY! Especially straight up raw, nor roasted. Oh my, I;m salivating! Thank god it’s lunch time and that’s exactly what I packed!
I am a sucker for a good banana bread, and luckily it’s easy to make gluten free or paleo 🙂 Looks super delicious and so comforting!
This looks ah-mazing. I love breakfast bakes and I am so freaking excited to try this one! I love how your recipes always have ingredients that “normal” people have on hand!
I spy a brand new, yet antique, spoon. Perhaps the same one you were gifted as a blogiversary gift from Mama Spoon?
You know how much I love bananas so I won’t count the ways today. Suffice to say, I adore them, and I get excited when they start to turn because it means I get to bake them. My go is usually muffins though so I can share with the Hubby.
I am team PB, but I have been working with almonds all week so I can share with a certain PB allergy ridden friend. And by all week, I mean yesterday. 😉
Good eye! That is indeed one of the spoons from Mama Spoons 😀 And are you trying to tell me that you won’t be trying to kill me with granola this time around?!?! #soexcited
Ok I think they need to change the old expression “if like gives you lemons, make lemonade” to “if life gives you mushy bananas, make banana bread breakfast bake” This looks amazing!! I wish i had some right now. I probably average a banana and a half per day 😀
……just when I thought I didn’t really care for bananas outside of bread (with butter).
That is an amazing spoon. Cerealsly.
My brother loves banana bread, and it’s one of the few things he can eat with his Crohns that has fruit in it. So I always make it for him. Sacrificing delicious baked goods. I’m a nice sister.
Your recipe looks so good though. I might have to make it myself.
Ahhh I sooo love breakfast bakes… I love your pumpkin one. I’ll definitely have to try this one! Lately I’ve just been mixing up my fave oatmeal combos, throwing some baking powder in, baking them & hoping for the best, haha. Whatever works! 😉
Truth! Some of my best recipes have actually been the result of the most random experimentation!
I’m drooling all over my keyboard!
I have the same banana situation going on in my pantry right now. This totally needs to get on my breakfast menu!
This looks delicious! Especially with that chocolate almond butter. We are so far behind here with our almond butter flavours we don’t have chocolate, yet, but hoping we catch up soon. I go between being team PB and team AB. I think really I am just team nut butter 😉
Yay for team nut butter – no discrimination there 😀 .
High five for #teamABforlife! 😉
And as a fellow banana lover as well, I NEED to make this stat. The problem is I usually eat my bananas before they even have a chance to get speckley… I need to remember to seriously load up on them next time I’m at the store!
im convinced bananas and dates make just about anything better. I love baking with bananas. They add sweetness and that soft texture that is so hard to replicate. Thanks for sharing this awesome breakfast idea!
Yummm, Amanda! Totally laughed out loud because ummm YES I know what you mean about bananas mashing themselves while still in the peel. Had a whole lot of that going on last week when I spontaneously went out of town and came home to lots of on-the-verge-of-being-black bananas. I do love a good breakfast bake… Also, I would love to feature you on my recovery series on the blog one of these weeks. Email me if you are interested! I think your story is fascinating and I would love to hear more. Xx
I’m a horrible person! I -still- owe you an e-mail back about that and would love to chat more about it. E-mail you soon! xox
This is exactly the kind of thing that I love to make multiples of on Sundays so that I already have breakfasts made for the week. I love that this tastes like banana bread.. it’s like dessert for breakfast!
All that nut butter snarking. Don’t you feel bad making many children’s best breakfast buddy cry 😉 ?? Poor little peanuts were unfortunate enough for destiny deciding to make them a more potential killer than almonds. Okay, long story short: Team Almond butter BUT I still like peanuts, too.
One of my favourite ways to use ripe bananas is still your banana bread mug cake. Hm … I need to have one of those again soon.
I feel betrayed! I haven’t received my newsletter for this post yet and there are already 58 convents?? Seriously, when did you post this? Luckily, I’ve found your Facebook post about this. Why does My newsletter come so late? 🙁
This recipe though sounds amaaazing! I need to make it, as well as your other breakfast bakes!
I mean comments, not convents btw, lol 😀
My apologies, Ann! I’ve been working some kinks out of my subscription service, so hopefully they’re all fixed now 🙂
The newsletter came a day late. I don’t blame you;-) just wanted to let you know, maybe you have a solution!
My sleepy self wishes this could show up on my desk at work…banana bread sounds so good right now!
Ooh very nice Amanda! I never know what to make with ripe bananas other than smoothies and breads – this breakfast bake sounds incredible! The sliced bananas mixed in just can’t be beat … this calls for breakfast three times a day! Pinned!
This looks really good. Wish I would have read your blog first since I had some rip bananas. I ended up making banana bread. Next time! I am going to save this recipe for sure.
bananas… we have the same thinking. LOVE them. and i think my bites might want to join your bake for an EPIC banana breakfast, yes?
I seriously love these little breakfast bakes! Now that the weather is cooler in the mornings, I can definitely see myself making more of these on mornings that I don’t go to the gym! Although I think the chocolate chip one is still my favorite….
These looks so good! I said these because every mug recipe at the end had me drooling. That said, I fo not metabolize bananas well and always gain weight eating too many. I have to be careful. Some people’s bodies go crazy on stretched and I’m one of them.