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Healthy Carrot Cake Banana Bread

5 from 1 vote
This healthy carrot cake banana bread is soft, moist, and naturally sweetened with ripe bananas and maple syrup. Made with wholesome ingredients like Greek yogurt, melted butter, fresh carrots, and warm spices, it’s an easy, refined sugar free bake that’s perfect for spring.
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Course: Dessert
Keyword: banana bread, carrot, carrot cake, Easter, Greek yogurt, healthy, spring
Servings: 8

Ingredients

  • 3 bananas overripe
  • 2 eggs
  • 5 tbsp melted butter
  • ½ cup Greek yogurt plain
  • ⅓ cup real maple syrup
  • 1 tsp vanilla bean paste or extract
  • 1¾ cup all purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp kosher salt
  • 1½ tsp cinnamon
  • ½ tsp nutmeg
  • ½ tsp ground ginger
  • ¼ tsp ground cloves
  • 1½ cup grated carrot (about 1 large carrot)
  • ¾ cup raisins optional
  • ¾ cup shredded coconut

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350℉. Mash 3 bananas with the back of a fork in a large mixing bowl until smooth. Add 2 eggs, 1 tsp vanilla, 5 tbsp melted butter, ⅓ cup maple syrup & ½ cup yogurt. Whisk to combine.
  • In a separate large bowl, combine your dry ingredients of 1¾ cups of flour, ½ tsp salt, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp cinnamon, ½ tsp nutmeg, ½ tsp ground ginger and ¼ tsp ground cloves to the mixture. Add this to your large mixing bowl of wet ingredients and stir until flour streaks are just about gone, adding the grated carrot, coconut and raisins at the end and gently folding in.
  • Transfer batter to in a parchment lined 9×5 loaf pan & bake at 350 F for 60-75 mins, until a toothpick inserted comes out with crumbs instead of wet batter. Cover with foil the last 15 minutes if the top is becoming too browned. Allow loaf to cool at least 10 minutes before icing, slicing and serving.