Blueberry-Banana Bread with Sweet Walnut Crumbles

Blueberries and bananas coming together for a scrumptious morning loaf.

Recipe Overview:

This recipe begins with a timeless banana bread recipe that I’ve revamped simply by adding fresh blueberries to the mixture, and a sweet and crispy walnut topping before baking it. This recipe is completely interchangeable, so feel free to use it for the banana bread alone if you prefer.

 Let’s start prepping for this by getting a few things out of the way so you’ll be ready to roll.

First let’s add the walnuts to a food processor and pulse for about one minute until they’re grounded up. You’ll be adding these ground walnuts directly into to crumble mix. Next we want to mash the bananas. Place the bananas in a small bowl and using the back of a fork, smash them until smooth. Last tip before getting started is to make sure the butter temperatures are correct. The first stick that will be incorporated into the bread mixture should be at room temperature, this will make it easy to cream into the sugar. The 2nd stick of butter needs to be very cold to crumble nicely when mixing it into the walnut crumble mixture. That’s about it for the prep work, this Recipe makes one loaf, now let’s roll.

Ingredients:

Preheat oven to 350° Grease and flour the bottom of a loaf pan and set aside.

• 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3/4 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 3  ripe bananas
• 1 1/2 cups flour, sifted
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• pinch of salt
• 1 cup fresh blueberries

Method:

Using handheld mixer set on low speed, cream together the butter, vanilla, and sugar for 2 minutes or until fluffy. Add the eggs and bananas and continue to mix for another minute.

In a separate bowl combine the sifted flour, baking soda and salt. Slowly stir in the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients until all is nicely mixed. Using a spatula, gently fold in the fresh blueberries and pour mixture into the greased loaf pan.

Walnut sugar crumble:

• 1/2 cup ground walnuts
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes

Add the ground walnuts, flour, sugar and cold butter to a large mixing bowl.

Using your hands, work in the cold butter pieces to the dry mix until crumbles form.

Sprinkle crumbles evenly over the batter, and place the loaf in the preheated oven. Bake 45 to 50 minutes until a toothpick or wooden skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.

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Blueberry Banana Bread with Walnut Crumbles

Prep 20 mins

Cook 55 mins

Total 1 hour, 15 mins

Author Catherine Varitek

Yield 1 loaf

Lite and fluffy blueberry- banana bread with sweet walnut crumbles.

Ingredients

Blueberry banana bread

• 1/2 cup butter
• 3/4 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 3 ripe bananas
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• pinch of salt
• 1 cup blueberries

Walnut sugar crumble:

• 1/2 cup walnuts
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup cold unsalted butter

Instructions

Walnut Crumbles:

1. Add walnuts to a food processor, pulse until they become fine. About 1 minute.
2. Add the walnuts, flour, and sugar to a large mixing bowl.
3. Cut the cold butter into cubes.
4. Using your clean hands, work in butter pieces to the dry mix until large clumps form. 

For the bread:

1. Using a handheld mixer, cream together butter, sugar, and vanilla until fluffy.
2. Add eggs and bananas, then continue to mixing for about two minutes on low speed.
3. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking soda and salt. 
4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. 
5. Gently fold in the blueberries.
6. Pour the batter into a greased and floured loaf pan.
7. Bake at 350° 45-50 minutes.

Courses Breakfast

Cuisine dessert