Moist Pumpkin Banana Bread Recipe

This moist pumpkin banana bread recipe is the best. Perfect breakfast, brunch or dessert paired with a cup of coffee this holiday season or year round. If you loved our air fryer pumpkin bread this is a great twist on your traditional sweet bread recipe. Perfect for any occasion.

Easy Pumpkin Banana Bread Recipe

Well, it tastes even better. If you love homemade banana and moist pumpkin bread you are going to LOVE this combination. The moistest and most flavorful sweet bread you’ll ever try.

It’s perfect paired with a cup of coffee (a glass of juice for them), as well as a great gift for someone special too. You can make it into a loaf like you see here or above or if you are in a hurry just spoon into a muffin pan instead.

During the holidays all it takes is a loved one to share your stories and memories with to make you smile. We all have a recipe that immediately brings you back to your childhood. It makes you remember someone special sitting at the kitchen table snacking on it right?

I know first hand that life gets busy, but don’t wait. Take one hour this year to sit down with someone you care about over one of your favorite coffee drinks. Ask about their life if they’re still around. You won’t regret it. Even better, take a tape recorder. When they pass it will be a tear jerker for you but in a good way.

Now you will want to wait until your fruit is quite brown for this one in particular. If you aren’t ready to make quite yet just stick them in the fridge inside a bowl. It will earn you a few more days so they will stop ripening so quickly.

This isn’t just something I make during Thanksgiving and/or Christmas time though. It’s one of my favorite overripe banana recipes because it smells and tastes amazing.

Pumpkin Banana Bread Ingredients

1. Flour & baking powder will start your dry items
2. Pumpkin puree can be canned or homemade
3. Pumpkin pie spice is optional but great
4. Sugar will make it sweet with
5. Brown sugar is wonderful too
6. Overripe mashed bananas
7. Oil or you could use applesauce or even mayonnaise
8. Baking Soda is a leavening agent to make it fluffy
9. Vanilla extract

This will make 2 loaf pans full. You’ll want some non stick cooking spray, or prepared pans with parchment paper are needed. Wire rack is helpful so it can cool completely before slicing. Medium and large bowl for mixing. And use a knife or toothpick for inserting in the center to test doneness.

If you want to know how to half a recipe to make less, read this post. Tip: Spray your pan with non stick spray to clean a pot.

Variations

I like chocolate chips or others like our pumpkin cranberry bread but chopped nuts, about 1/2 cup, works well too if you really want something else in the batter.

Here are the basic steps to take, and tips so your pumpkin banana bread come out to perfection! First you should always measure flour properly so it’s not too dense or dry. This is probably the most important aspect when it comes to baking in general.

I am sure most of you know you shouldn’t scoop flour right out of the container with your measuring cup, but just in case I’ve provided an article for you here. You can totally add 1/2-3/4 of a cup of mini chocolate chips. Bake time won’t change, nothing else will either.

How to Make Pumpkin Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips

1. Combine your wet ingredients like your cup of pumpkin, mashed bananas, eggs etc… in one bowl.
2. Use a spoon or in your bowl beat with a mixer on low speed.
3. I like little chunks of mashed banana vs. beating it smooth so I typically use a wooden spoon for everything.
4. In another bowl mix together your dry ingredients together well. Then slowly combine the two. Again, basic steps of baking but we’re spelling out for everyone here. Now preheat your oven to 350 degrees F
5. I like to lay a piece of parchment paper inside my 2 loaf pans so I can lift them out easily when done. Bake at 350 F for 40-50 minutes, check after 40 so it doesn’t come out too dry.
6. This is How to Tell if Banana Bread is Done

You do NOT want to overbake this. As soon as the middle bounces back slowly when gently touched in the center take it out. A mostly clean toothpick (with crumbs) in the center is your sign to take it out! Leave in pan and allow to cool on a cooling rack. Then gently flip over into your hand. Flip over with bottom on cutting board and slice. Enjoy as is or with some butter on top.

Yes, quick breads in a box at the store can be good but homemade pumpkin apple bread is just so much better. The combination of these two popular breakfasts (or desserts) is just oh so yummy. We’ve made these into small loaf pans, wrapped them up and given them to neighbors during the holidays too. Since this recipe makes 2 full loaves you can enjoy one and freeze the other too if you prefer.

How do you freeze baked pumpkin bread?

Allow your loaf to cool completely out of the loaf pan. You can either slice it and then freeze it, or freeze the whole loaf. (I prefer not to slice) Wrap the entire loaf with plastic wrap, the place the whole thing in a gallon freezer bag.

How do you unfreeze bread?

Take the loaf out of your freezer, and out of the plastic. Place it inside your gallon freezer bag sealed. Then let it thaw in the fridge until it is no longer frozen. This usually takes overnight for an entire loaf, or 2 to 3 hours for slices.

Can you bake this into muffins?

We have made mini pumpkin banana muffins out of this recipe as well. They’re great grab and go breakfasts. For timing it is closer to 18 or so minutes. Muffin cups are nice to use for these so they don’t stick and when storing them on the counter they don’t seem to stick together as easily. Again, make sure you do not over-bake these. 

Just gently touch the middle of one around the 18 minute mark to see if it springs back. If not let them bake 2 more minutes and check again until they do. All ovens vary slightly so mark down how long they take to get to this point so the next time you’ll know.

Other easy Fall dessert recipes you’ll love

• This Easy pumpkin pudding cake recipe is great
• Our 4 ingredient banana bread is great too
• Pumpkin angel food cake is incredible if you haven’t tried this tweak.