If you've got some overripe bananas on the kitchen counter give this yummy quick bread a try! Each bite is full of banana flavor and Oreo cookie chunks.
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🗝️ Key takeaways
- Overripe bananas are the secret for the best banana bread no matter what you mix into it.
- This is perfect for afternoon snacks or weekend breakfasts.
- Oreo banana bread is extra moist because of the oil. If you'd like more buttery flavor use half melted butter.
You've never tasted anything like this easy banana bread recipe with Oreos! Extra benefit? You get the cool mom award for giving the kids cookies & cream banana bread for breakfast!
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
📖 Variations
- Try Lemon Oreos or any of the different varieties. I love Peanut Butter Oreos in this.
- Peanut butter chips are fantastic.
- Add up to a half cup of chopped pecans.
- Top with a drizzly glaze like this one.
🥄 Equipment
- medium-sized
mixing bowl - loaf pans
🥫How to store Oreo banana bread
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.
💭 Things to know
Expert Tip: If you use salted butter just omit the salt in the recipe.
- Be sure to use ripe bananas in this Oreo banana bread recipe. They need to have lots of brown spots on them and be very fragrant.
- 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.
If you love this recipe please give it 5 stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📖 Recipe
Oreo Banana Bread
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- 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
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
- Bake mini loaves for about 15 minutes then check every 5 minutes until done. They'll measure about 200F in the center when done.
- 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.
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.
This recipe has been tested several times. If you choose to use other ingredients, or change the technique in some way, the results may not be the same.
First published November 30, 2016. Last updated February 22, 2024 for editorial improvements.
✍🏻 A note from Marye...
I know y'all don't always like the stories bloggers tell so when I have one I try to put it at the very bottom so you can read or skip as you like.
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.
maria says
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 says
Yes! The baking temp stays the same but check the loaves at 15-20 minutes.
Lonnie says
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 says
I don't know. I've never tried it that way.
Julie says
Heavens I've never heard of banana bread with Oreos! That may be my new obsession!
Nicole Taggart says
oh this bread would get me in trouble. I'd love to have a slice, or 2!
allie says
What a great idea, Marye, I love chocolate with bananas. This bread is moist and chock full of Oreos!
Lindsay @ The Live-In Kitchen says
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!