Banana Cottage Cheese Bread Recipe

What You Need

• 2 ripe bananas, mashed
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup cottage cheese
• 1/4 cup maple syrup
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 1/4 cups almond flour
• 3/4 tsp baking soda
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• Optional: chopped walnuts, chocolate chips, or dried cranberries

Set Up

Heat oven to 350F. Line a loaf pan with parchment and spray it.

Mix Wet

Mash bananas in a big bowl until mostly smooth.

Add eggs, cottage cheese, maple syrup, and vanilla. Mix until uniform – small cottage cheese lumps are fine.

Add Dry

Add almond flour, baking soda, and cinnamon. Stir just until no dry flour shows. Batter will be thick.

If using mix-ins, fold them in gently now.

Bake

Pour into prepared pan. Level the top with a spatula.

Bake ~45-55 minutes until a toothpick comes out mostly clean. Check at 30 minutes – if the top’s browning too fast, tent with foil.

Cool

Let it sit in the pan ~10 minutes to firm up.

Turn out onto a cooling rack. Cool completely before slicing or it’ll fall apart.

Keeps wrapped at room temperature for 2 days. Freezes great in slices.

Almond flour makes this gluten-free but also way more filling than regular flour. The cottage cheese completely disappears – nobody will know it’s in there. Black bananas work best – the uglier the better.

Banana Cottage Cheese Bread

Banana bread for people who think regular banana bread is basically cake. The cottage cheese adds protein without making it taste weird – just makes it extra moist.

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Prep Time: 15 minutes mins

Cook Time: 45 minutes mins

Cooling Time: 1 hour hr

Total Time: 2 hours hrs

Ingredients

• ▢ 2 ripe bananas mashed
• ▢ 3 eggs
• ▢ 1/2 cup cottage cheese
• ▢ 1/4 cup maple syrup
• ▢ 2 tsp vanilla extract
• ▢ 2 1/4 cups almond flour
• ▢ 3/4 tsp baking soda
• ▢ 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• ▢ Optional: chopped walnuts chocolate chips, or dried cranberries

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350F. Line loaf pan with parchment and spray.
• Mash bananas in large bowl until smooth.
• Mix in eggs, cottage cheese, maple syrup, and vanilla until combined.
• Add almond flour, baking soda, and cinnamon. Stir until just combined.
• Pour into prepared pan and level top.
• Bake 45-55 minutes until toothpick comes out mostly clean. Tent with foil if browning too quickly.
• Cool in pan 10 minutes.
• Transfer to cooling rack and cool completely before slicing.
• Store wrapped at room temperature 2 days or freeze in slices.