Description
Easy cinnamon banana bread with a swirl of cinnamon sugar plus a lightly crunchy cinnamon topping. This is a super easy quick bread to make for the fall season. No complicated steps or long prep time required: just mix, swirl, bake and enjoy.
Ingredients
Scale
- 3 medium-sized overripe bananas
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Cinnamon Swirl
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray a 9×4” loaf pan with cooking spray.
- Mash the bananas in a large mixing bowl. Add the sugar and mix to combine. There shouldn’t be any big lumps of bananas. Add the egg and oil and mix well to combine.
- In a separate small mixing bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt. Add the flour mixture to the banana mixture and stir until just combined. Don’t over mix the batter.
- In a small bowl, combine the sugar and cinnamon for the swirl. Pour half of the batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle half of the cinnamon-sugar mixture over the top so it’s evenly coating the batter. Add the rest of the batter and sprinkle the rest of the cinnamon-sugar over the top.
- Make make the swirl, use a dinner knife to swirl the batter. Start at one end and swirl from edge to edge until you reach the other end.
- Bake the bread for 50 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool the bread in the pan for 30 to 45 minutes before turning it out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 50 minutes
- Category: Breakfast
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 300
- Sugar: 32.5g
- Sodium: 312.8mg
- Fat: 7.8g
- Saturated Fat: 5.8g
- Unsaturated Fat: 1.4g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 55.9g
- Fiber: 2.3g
- Protein: 3.7g
- Cholesterol: 23.3mg
Keywords: cinnamon banana bread, banana bread with cinnamon, cinnamon swirl banana bread
