If you've got some overripe bananas on the kitchen counter give this yummy quick bread a try!
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❤️ Why you'll love it
- It's a fun twist on traditional banana bread recipes.
- Your kitchen's gonna smell amazing.
- You get the cool mom award for giving the kids cookies & cream banana bread for breakfast! .
You've never tasted anything like this easy banana bread recipe with Oreos!
Oreo chunks are stirred into moist banana bread batter and baked. Once it's cooled it's thickly dusted with Confectioner's sugar.
Each bite is bursting with ripe banana flavor and Oreo cookies! Who doesn't need more of that in their life?
🧾 Ingredients
This is an overview of the ingredients. You'll find the full measurements and instructions in the green recipe card (printable) at the bottom of the page.
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- all purpose flour
- oil
- unsalted butter
- buttermilk
- bananas
- eggs
- granulated sugar
- brown sugar
- vanilla
- baking soda
- salt
- Oreos
🔪 Instructions
This is an overview of the instructions. Full instructions are in the green recipe card at the bottom of the page.
- Beat the oil, butter, eggs, vanilla, sugars, and buttermilk until well blended then add banana.
- Combine flour and othr dry ingredients and stir into the banana mixture.
- Fold chopped oreo cookies into the batter.
- Pour batter into loaf pans and bake.
🥄 Equipment
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This loaf cake keeper keeps quick breads fresh plus, since it's clear, you don't forget about it until it's grown blue hair.
🥫 Storage
Store Oreo banana bread on the counter in an airtight container or wrapped in plastic wrap for up to 4 days.
Freeze for up to 3 months. I like to slice the loaves and place parchment or wax paper between the slices and then freeze. That way I can get just one or two slices as needed.
📖 Variations
- Try Lemon Oreos or any of the different varieties. I love Peanut Butter Oreos in this.
- Add up to a half cup of chopped pecans.
- Top with a drizzly glaze like this one.
💭 Things to know
Expert Tip: If you use salted butter just omit the salt in the recipe.
- If loaves start to brown too quickly place a foil tent over them.
- The oil makes this a very moist bread - if you prefer butter then use ½ melted butter and half oil.
- To remove bread easily line each greased loaf pan with parchment paper then spray with a little cooking spray. The baked loaves will lift right out.
- Don't overmix your batter or the bread will be tough.
- Make sure all ingredients are at room temperature for best results.
👩🍳 FAQs
You may be using too much flour. Be sure to measure the flour lightly into the measuring cup.
If you've overbaked a little or it seems dry try brushing the loaf with simple syrup and wrapping it in plastic wrap for a couple of hours.
An instant read thermometer will read about 200 degrees f when you stick it in the center if bread is done.
📚 Related recipes
- Buttermilk banana bread is old fashioned comfort food.
- Orange banana bread is a delicious variation.
📞 The last word
Banana bread is one of those foods that almost everyone loves - and why not? It's sweet, tender, and full of yummy banana flavor plus it's easy to make.
I've made several variations of my banana bread recipe over the years. Pecans and chocolate chips have been added at times and at other times I've added raisins, toffee bits, or some other easy ingredient.
I don't know what made me think to add chopped Oreos but I am sure glad that I did.
The Oreo cookies give you little explosions of chocolate in every bite while retaining some of the texture and flavor of an Oreo.
I usually have a few cookies left to make these deep fried Oreos with!
The oil keeps this easy banana bread recipe moist for days -- if it lasts that long!
If you click on the number of servings in the recipe card you can adjust the measurements up or down for the exact number of servings you need. Don't forget that you can click on "add to collection" to save it to your own, private recipe box!
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📖 Recipe
Oreo Banana Bread
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Ingredients
- ½ cup oil, peanut, sunflower, walnut, other light oil
- ½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- ⅔ cup buttermilk
- 2 cups banana, very ripe and mashed
- 4 eggs, room temperature
- 1 ¾ cups white sugar
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 3 ½ cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1-½ cups Oreos, coarsely chopped
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325F.
- Grease 2 loaf pans.
- Beat the oil, butter, eggs, vanilla, both sugars and buttermilk until well blended.
- Beat in the banana.
- Mix the flour, baking soda and salt and stir into the banana mixture until well blended.
- Add the chopped Oreo cookies and gently blend into the batter.
- Spoon into two greased loaf pans and bake at 325f for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a toothpick stuck into the center of a loaf comes out clean.
- Cool in pans for 15 minutes then turn out and finish cooling.
- Dust cooled loaves with Confectioner's sugar.
Notes
- If loaves start to brown too quickly place a foil tent over them.
- The oil makes this a very moist bread - if you prefer butter then use ½ melted butter and half oil.
- To remove bread easily line each greased loaf pan with parchment paper then spray with a little cooking spray. The baked loaves will lift right out.
- Don't overmix your batter or the bread will be tough.
- Make sure all ingredients are at room temperature for best results.
Nutrition Facts
Nutrition information is estimated as a courtesy. If using for medical purposes, please verify information using your own nutritional calculator. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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We'll never share your email or send you spam. Pinkie swear.My kids refuse to eat bananas once the little brown freckles appear. While I think that it's the very best time to eat a banana my kids consider them "gross", "slimy", and "too ripe".
On the other hand, I won't eat them until they've had a few days to ripen and for the sugars to develop. Since I am usually sticking to a low carb diet and therefore foregoing bananas altogether we generally have some in various stages of overripe.
My kids will want to eat a particular food for weeks on end. It might be bananas or apples or clementines.
Could be broccoli or asparagus. Then, all of a sudden (and usually when I have stocked up on the item) they just can't bear to look at whatever it is let alone actually consume it. I don't know. Do any of y'all's kids do that?
It's crazy.
My older four weren't fussy eaters. When they were growing up we had a lot less money and fewer options. Cereal, fresh fruit, and other "non-essentials" were seldom on the grocery list.
Things have been so much better for the younger four but I wish their tastes were a little more predictable!
First published November 30, 2016. Last updated April 25, 2022 for better instructions and more tips.
maria
This recipe look so yummy !!! Can it be made in Mini Loaf pans ? I know I would have to adjust the cooking time, maybe have to adjust the baking temp.
Marye
Yes! The baking temp stays the same but check the loaves at 15-20 minutes.
Lonnie
I've made banana bread with a sugar free cake mix and chocolate chips, do you think I could make the mix with the oreo's? I don't imagine why I couldn't. This recipe will be a hit when my grandsons come for a visit. Maybe even add in some chocolate chips.
Marye
I don't know. I've never tried it that way.
Julie
Heavens I've never heard of banana bread with Oreos! That may be my new obsession!
Nicole Taggart
oh this bread would get me in trouble. I'd love to have a slice, or 2!
allie
What a great idea, Marye, I love chocolate with bananas. This bread is moist and chock full of Oreos!
Lindsay @ The Live-In Kitchen
What a fun idea! Chocolate and bananas are a match made in heaven, I don't know why I didn't think of Oreos sooner!