I had some overripe bananas a couple of weeks ago, and had decided to make some banana bread! Unfortunately, the day that I wanted to make banana bread, it seemed that everything would go wrong. I was originally going to make it in the Instant Pot, but I didn’t have a pan big enough. Then I realized I was out of eggs and didn’t want to go back to the store. (My original recipe called for an ingredient that I had to buy separately because it didn’t get picked up in groceries.) So I experimented a little and came up with this eggless banana bread recipe!

Ingredients

• 4 ripe bananas
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) melted butter
• 3/4 brown sugar, lightly packed
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips (optional)

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Line loaf pan with parchment paper.
3. In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together flour, granulated sugar, salt, cinnamon, baking powder, and baking soda until combined.
4. In a large bowl, mash the bananas with a fork.
5. Mix the butter and brown sugar into the mashed bananas.
6. Whisk in the dry ingredients mixture into the banana mixture.
7. If desired, mix in nuts and/or chocolate chips (optional but highly recommended).
8. Pour mixture into loaf pan.
9. Bake at 350 for 40-55 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

And that’s it! I used an extra banana and some baking powder to work as my rising and binding agents as opposed to the eggs! It came out delicious!