Making banana bread like crazy? Try this sourdough fruit bread with bananas, applesauce or cranberry sauce to use whatever ingredients you have on hand.
I have several yummy banana bread recipes, but I’ve never made cranberry sauce bread until now. I ran out of bananas, yet the kids wanted more muffins. I still had some leftover cranberry sauce in the freezer, so I thawed that out and made an absolutely fantastic fruit bread. Applesauce is yummy, too.
My favorite thing about fruit bread is that it’s no fail. I’ve never had one go completely wrong. It’s always delicious and often beautiful. I’ve had my fair share of fails with regular bread, but I’ve yet to fail fruit bread.
And the addition of sourdough starter makes it easier on my tummy and extra delicious.
Sourdough Fruit Bread
Ingredients
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter or coconut oil, room temperature
3 large overripe bananas, mashed (or 1 cup cranberry sauce or applesauce)
1 egg, room temperature
1 cup sourdough starter discard
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour or gluten-free flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup chopped walnuts, butterscotch chips or chocolate chips (optional)
Method
Set out your egg and butter to get them to room temperature.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Grease either a 9 x 5 loaf pan or 2 12-cup muffin tins.
Cream butter and sugar in a mixer.
Add fruit (mashed banana, cranberry sauce or applesauce), egg and vanilla. Beat until combined thoroughly.
Add the sourdough starter and beat slowly for about 2 minutes until mixed thoroughly.
Add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix until just combined.
Stir in walnuts and/or butterscotch and chocolate chips. I like the mix of all three for banana bread and just walnuts for the cranberry and applesauce breads.
Pour into bread pan or muffin tin.
For bread, bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 60 minutes.
For muffins, bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 22 minutes.
Check that a toothpick comes out clean, allow bread to cool completely before slicing. Set on a cooling rack in pan for 5 minutes. Remove and allow to cool for a few hours. Muffins can be removed from the pan after 5 minutes and eaten immediately.
Love fruit bread? Try these, too: Banana Oat Bread, Banana Oatmeal Muffins, Banana Bread Pudding and Pumpkin Walnut Bread!
Sourdough Fruit Bread
Making banana bread like crazy? Try this sourdough fruit bread with bananas, applesauce or cranberry sauce to use whatever ingredients you have on hand.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter or coconut oil, room temperature
- 3 large overripe bananas, mashed (or 1 cup cranberry sauce or applesauce)
- 1 egg, room temperature
- 1 cup sourdough starter discard
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups flour or gluten-free flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup chopped walnuts, butterscotch chips or chocolate chips (optional)
Instructions
- Set out your egg and butter to get them to room temperature.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Grease either a 9 x 5 loaf pan or 2 12-cup muffin tins.
- Cream butter and sugar in a mixer.
- Add fruit (mashed banana, cranberry sauce or applesauce), egg and vanilla. Beat until combined thoroughly.
- Add the sourdough starter and beat slowly for about 2 minutes until mixed thoroughly.
- Add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix until just combined.
- Stir in walnuts and/or butterscotch and chocolate chips. I like the mix of all three for banana bread and just walnuts for the cranberry and applesauce breads.
- Pour into bread pan or muffin tin.
- For bread, bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 60 minutes.
- For muffins, bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 22 minutes.
- Check that a toothpick comes out clean, allow bread to cool completely before slicing. Set on a cooling rack in pan for 5 minutes. Remove and allow to cool for a few hours. Muffins can be removed from the pan after 5 minutes and eaten immediately.
