Carrot Cake Banana Bread Recipe

With ripe bananas, shredded carrot and pineapple all topped with a rich cream cheese frosting and chopped walnuts, this carrot cake banana bread is simply dreamy! So completely satisfying with your favourite cup of tea or coffee. It’s a quick bread recipe you’ll want to make again and again!

If you’re in need of a little sweet, have I got the thing for you!

Carrot cake meets banana bread in this super easy, moist and delicious carrot cake banana bread (with cream cheese frosting, may I add!)

I just love making flavoured banana bread. I mean, banana bread is delicious on its own, but it’s always fun to mix in other flavours. Why not, right?

This loaf cake or quick bread is not overly banana-y or overly sweet. What it is, though, is downright delicious.

And, if you’re like me (and my mother-in-law), you always have a few ‘beyond their prime’ bananas sitting on your counter.

My mother-in-law is particularly funny. She’s not a huge fan of eating bananas as they are, but always has to have them in her home. For guests, maybe? Or perhaps it’s for a yummy carrot banana cake, like this one.

Fan of carrot cake? Check out these carrot cake donuts!

Why We Love This Carrot Cake Banana Bread

• Banana bread is a great way to use overripe bananas.
• This loaf is the best of both worlds: carrot cake and banana bread (no deciding which one to make).
• No big mixer is required to make the bread itself (just a couple of bowls).
• It’s prepped in about 10 minutes and the hardest part is waiting for it to bake.
• This carrot cake banana bread tastes incredible!

How To Make It

Full details are in the recipe card below, but here are the basics:

1. Start by mixing your dry ingredients together in one bowl.
2. In another bowl, mash your ripe bananas.
3. To mashed bananas, mix in sugar, shredded carrot, oil, pineapple, yogurt, eggs and vanilla extract.
4. Combine the flour mixture with your banana mixture.
5. Pour into a prepared loaf pan.
6. Bake and let your loaf cool a little before removing out of the pan and fully cooling on a cooling rack.
7. Prepare your cream cheese frosting.
8. Spread frosting over cooled bread and add some walnuts (if you like).
9. Slice and enjoy!

Should I Refrigerate This Bread?

Because of the cream cheese frosting, store the loaf in an airtight container in the refrigerator and enjoy within 2 to 3 days.

Do I Have To Use Frosting?

Not at all!

You can enjoy this carrot banana bread as is. It’ll still taste delicious.

The cream cheese frosting is just the icing on the cake or, um, banana bread.

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If you make this carrot cake banana bread, be sure to leave a comment below!

Carrot Cake Banana Bread Recipe

Dawn | Girl Heart Food

With ripe bananas, shredded carrot and pineapple all topped with a rich cream cheese frosting and chopped walnuts, this carrot cake banana bread is simply dreamy! So completely satisfying with your favourite cup of tea or coffee. It's a quick bread recipe you'll want to make again and again!

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 55 mins

Total Time 1 hr 5 mins

Course Dessert

Servings 1 9-inch x 5-inch loaf

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Ingredients

 

Carrot Cake Banana Bread

• 2 cups all-purpose flour, spoon into measuring cup and level off with a butter knife
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• ¾ cup mashed bananas, from about 2 small ripe bananas
• ¾ to 1 cup granulated sugar, depending on how sweet you want (see "Notes" below, point "1")
• 1 ¼ cup shredded carrot, from about 2 carrots
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• ½ cup chopped canned pineapple (chopped into small cubes)
• ⅓ cup Greek yogurt
• 2 large eggs
• 1.5 teaspoons vanilla extract

Cream Cheese Frosting and Optional Garnish

• 6 ounces cream cheese, softened (¾ of a 250 gram package)
• ½ cup icing sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 to 4 tablespoons chopped walnuts or pecans

Instructions

Carrot Cake Banana Bread

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Meanwhile, in a bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
• In another bowl, mash bananas.
• To bananas, add sugar, carrot, vegetable oil, pineapple, yogurt, eggs and vanilla extract. Mix well to combine.
• Combine dry ingredients (flour mixture) with wet ingredients (banana mixture), mixing until there's no dry flour left (but don't overmix).
• Spray a 9-inch x 5-inch non-stick loaf pan with baking spray. Line loaf pan with parchment paper, allowing some to overhang over the sides (this makes the loaf easier to remove once baked). Spray parchment paper with baking spray.
• Pour banana bread mixture into the prepared pan and bake 55 to 60 minutes or until a wooden skewer or cake tester inserted in the centre of the bread comes out clean.

  Note: Because pans and ovens can vary, check on at the 55 minute mark. If it's not done, continue baking until it is.
• Allow bread to cool 10 minutes in pan before removing and allowing to fully cool on a cooling rack.
• Once bread is fully cooled, spread over frosting and garnish with walnuts. Slice and enjoy!

  Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator and enjoy within 2 to 3 days.

Cream Cheese Frosting

• Combine all ingredients (except walnuts) in a mixing bowl and blend with a hand mixer (on medium-high speed) until combined and fluffy.

Notes

1. I often make this bread with just ¾ cup of sugar and find that it’s just right for me and not too sweet. If you prefer things a little sweeter (but still not too sweet), opt for the full 1 cup.
2. Time does not include cooling of the bread.
3. Don’t frost your carrot cake banana bread until it has completely cooled!

Nutrition estimate (if provided) is based on 1 Serving.

Nutrition information (if provided) is provided as a courtesy and should be considered an estimate only. Ingredients can vary and Girl Heart Food makes no guarantees to the accuracy of this information. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.

A note on times provided: appliances vary, any prep and/or cook times provided are guidelines only.

Keyword carrot banana bread, quick bread recipe, recipe using ripe bananas

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