Bananas are such a staple, but sometimes they sit on your counter and get overripe! The best thing to do is make some banana bread! Since it’s encouraged to stay inside, what better way to pass the time than to bake? These banana bread recipes will take care of all your baking needs, and leave you with a wonderfully sweet treat that you can have for breakfast or dessert!

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1. Paleo Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

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This Easy Paleo Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe by Angelina Papanikolaou is the ultimate healthy dessert or snack! This gluten free banana bread is moist with just the right amount of sweetness and loaded with chocolate chips. This banana bread recipe is dairy-free, gluten free, and grain free!

2. Healthy Banana Bread

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Try this Healthy Banana Bread by Jennifer Strohmeyer that is naturally sweetened and oil-free. It’s moist, sweet and delicious!

3. Paleo Chocolate Chunk Banana Bread Bars

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These Paleo Chocolate Chunk Banana Bread Bars by Angelina Papanikolaou are a healthy treat! They’re moist, lightly sweet, with a hint of cinnamon and packed with chocolate. These addicting banana bars are paleo, gluten-free, and dairy-free.

4. Dark Chocolate Banana Bread with Beetroot Coconut Cream Glaze

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This Dark Chocolate Banana Bread with Beetroot Coconut Cream Glaze by Teri Macovei is not only colorful with the addition of beetroot glaze. It’s gluten-free, refined sugar free, and also oil-free. It is possible to enjoy a plant-based dessert that can make you happy inside and out!

5. Caramel Cashew Banana Bread

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Who doesn’t love a bit of banana bread and equally who doesn’t love how easy it is to make?! This Caramel Cashew Banana Bread by Vicky Coates is the perfect moist and soft texture packed with chunks of caramel cashew bar. Its full of protein, low in sugar as well as being gluten free.

6. Pear Oatmeal Banana Bread

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Oatmeal banana bread is a super easy and delicious baked good to make for any occasion. It’s perfect for when you have extra ripe bananas to use up. It also doesn’t need much sugar since the bananas are a great sweeten and oats bring out the sweetness. Make sure your bananas are really ripe for this Pear Oatmeal Banana Bread by Charlie Rioux; there should be more black than yellow. That’s the secret to a good banana bread!

7. Coffee Cake Banana Bread

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Two worlds collide in this amazing Coffee Cake Banana Bread by Nicole Dunai! The decadence of cinnamon streusel takes this moist banana bread up a whole other level! The flavors and textures compliment each other so well. Such a perfect treat for after dinner or to snack on throughout the day. This coffee cake banana bread is the ultimate combination of desserts. It will blow your mind.

8. Easy White Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

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This Easy White Chocolate Chip Banana Bread by Holly Jade is a delicious, light and airy banana bread with white chocolate chips, the perfect snack to enjoy with a cup of tea or coffee. These banana bread recipes are perfect to enjoy at any point in the day!

9. Chocolate Swirl Banana Bread

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Are those overripe bananas sitting on your counter top staring you in the face but you just do not know what to do with them? Well here is your answer, so what are you waiting for? Try out this Chocolate Swirl Banana Bread by Kennedy Kitchings!

10. Zucchini Banana Bread

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This Zucchini Banana Bread by Kat Condon great way to use up your stock of zucchini and brown bananas, this healthy Zucchini Banana Bread is gluten-free, refined sugar free and vegan!

11. Classic Banana Bread Muffins

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These Classic Banana Bread Muffins by Clean Snacks, Arman Liew are a great way to use up those leftover bananas, and this one is made with no grains and no eggs!

12. Gluten-Free Banana Bread

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The texture of this Gluten-Free Banana Bread by Melissa Tedesco is incredible. It’s soft, spongey and melts in your mouth.

13. Banana Bread Granola

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This gluten-free and vegan Banana Bread Granola by Kat Condon is loaded with all the things – from quinoa and rolled oats to fresh banana and almond butter! Made without any oil, butter or refined sugars.

14. One-Bowl Almond Butter Banana Bread

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This One-Bowl Almond Butter Banana Bread by Cara Carin tastes incredible and it’s incredibly simple to make. This hearty loaf combines bananas with almonds butter and walnuts to make a dense, moist, and nourishing bread. These banana bread recipes are the perfect quick breakfast or a mid-afternoon snack.

15. Banana Bread Bites

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These Banana Bread Bites by Aria Massoudifar are dairy free, egg free and processed sugar free – all the good things in the world. The main ingredients in this banana bread recipe are bananas, almonds and chia seeds and all you need is a food processor and an oven.

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