Our Favorite Super Easy Banana Applesauce Bread Recipe

My kids love bananas.  Until they don’t.  And they never tell me when the banana consumption will spontaneously shut off, so occasionally, I’m left with a bunch of over ripe bananas.  When there are 4-5 of them, we make this amazing super simple banana applesauce bread.  It does help rotate some of your food storage items, but the recipe itself is not food storage friendly without some substitutions.  I’ll cover those at the end so you can make this out of food storage if you want to!

This bread is dense, moist, and can be cut and toasted without falling apart.  It’s the perfect way to use up those bananas.

Super Easy Banana Applesauce Bread Recipe

Makes 2 loaves

• 4 cups flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 cup butter, melted
• 1 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas (about 4-5 bananas)
• 1 can or pint jar applesauce

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Lightly grease two 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch loaf pans.

In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.  In a separate bowl, combine butter, brown sugar, eggs, bananas, and applesauce.  Stir banana mixture into flour mixture just enough to moisten.  Pour batter into prepared loaf pans.

Bake for 60-65 minutes.  Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack to cool.

For some bonus preparedness fun, bake your banana bread in a solar oven!

Slice and enjoy!

Baked loaves can be frozen if you can keep the kids away from them long enough to justify saving one for later!

To make this recipe food storage friendly:

Substitute 1 cup oil for the butter

Substitute whole egg powder for eggs (4 TB powder + 8 TB water = 4 eggs, or follow mixing directions on your egg powder)

Substitute 2 1/3 cup freeze dried bananas.  To use freeze dried bananas for banana puree:  Measure 2 1/3 cups dry bananas, loosely packed in the cups. Crush or puree them dry into a powder.  Add enough liquid to get back to 2 1/3 cups and let sit 10 minutes to fully hydrate.

Keep preparing!
Angela