Easy Banana Bread with Oreos

You’ve never tasted anything like this easy banana bread recipe with Oreos! Chopped Oreo cookies are stirred into a moist banana bread batter. It’s cooled then thickly dusted with Confectioner’s sugar. Each bite is bursting with ripe banana flavor and Oreo! Who doesn’t need more Oreos in their life?

For this recipe you’ll need: ripe banana, peanut or sunflower oil, butter, buttermilk, eggs, white sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, all purpose flour, baking soda, salt, original style Oreo cookies

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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. The oil keeps this easy banana bread recipe moist for days — if it lasts that long! It’s an unusual bread and, while I’m sure it’s been done before by someone somewhere, I haven’t seen anything like it before..

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!

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Easy Banana Bread with Oreos Recipe

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Easy Banana Bread with Oreos

Prep Time

4 mins

Cook Time

1 hrs 15 mins

Total Time

1 hrs 19 mins

 

Tender, rich banana bread with chopped Oreos in each bite. It's decadently moist with lots of ripe banana flavor. It's the perfect grab and go breakfast, afternoon snack, or late night munchie. Make it in mini loaf pans to give as gifts.

Servings: 2 loaves

Author: Marye

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup oil peanut, sunflower, walnut, other light oil
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter room temperature
• 2/3 cup buttermilk
• 2 cups very ripe mashed banana
• 4 eggs
• 1 3/4 cups white sugar
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 1/2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1-1/2 cups coarsely chopped Oreos

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325F.
2. Grease 2 loaf pans.
3. Beat the oil, butter, eggs, vanilla, both sugars and buttermilk until well blended.
4. Beat in the banana.
5. Mix the flour, baking soda and salt and stir into the banana mixture until well blended.
6. Add the chopped Oreo cookies and gently blend into the batter.
7. 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.
8. Cool in pans for 15 minutes then turn out and finish cooling.
9. Dust cooled loaves with Confectioner's sugar.

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