Over toast? Try these easy banana bread and muffin recipes

Nothing says good morning like a classic, buttered slice of banana bread, and you can make your favourite loaves, muffins and cakes from home.

Feb 14, 2025

Easy banana bread

Credit: Nigel Lough

This super-simple banana bread is almost as easy to make as it is to devour. Just mix, bake and enjoy!

"I love sugar as much as the next person, but there’s a time and a place – and this recipe is not it. The sweetness here comes from the bananas, and the result is a banger of a breakfast, especially when slathered with a generous layer of butter." Recipe from Andy Cooks: The Cookbook (Oriana Press).

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Breakfast? Dessert? We'll let you decide. This classic banana bread has an indulgent chocolate and caramel twist.

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Best banana bread

We love that everyone calls it ‘banana bread’ to pretend that we’re not just eating cake for breakfast, but this recipe is so full of good things that you don’t even need to feel guilty about it. This is an edited extract from Peanut Butter by Tim Lannan and James Annabel, published by Hardie Grant Books, $22.99, and is available where all good books are sold. Photography by Kate Berry.

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“My gorgeous vegan banana bread that’s filled with the goodness of oats and omega-3-rich chia seeds," says Teresa Cutter. This recipe is an edited extract from Earth To Table by Teresa Cutter (The Healthy Chef, $49.95). It is available from thehealthychef.com.

Sarah Wilson's banana peel cake

"I got bored for a minute and worked out that Australians eat 5 million bananas a day (!) and given that the peel makes up 12% of a banana’s weight, we conceivably toss 49,680,000 kilograms of peels a year. Don’t find this so interesting? OK, perhaps the fact that you can cook with banana peel is. The peel provides a great fruity flavour and gummy texture. This cake, which my friend Claire Snel thought up, has a very earnest, dense and filling vibe, very much like a legit breakfast banana bread. You only need a thin slice. Trust me. Plus it contains less than 2 teaspoons of sugar per serve." Recipe from I Quit Sugar: Simplicious Flow by Sarah Wilson, Published by Macmillan Australia, RRP $45.00, Photography by Rob Palmer.

Start your week the right way with Alison Roman's cocoa banana bread

Cocoa banana bread

This version of banana bread is more cake than bread, and I wouldn't be able to get away with saying "there's banana in it, so it's breakfast!" because no, this is not breakfast. This is a chocolatey, buttery, decadent thing and (probably) not appropriate to eat first thing in the morning, says Alison. But hey, everything in moderation, including moderation, right... This recipe is an extract from DINING IN by Alison Roman. Copyright © 2017 by Alison Roman.