Banana Walnut Bread – Rustic Easy Low-Sugar Recipe

Banana walnut bread with cinnamon and raisin is a simple baked bread I celebrate and you can too just because it’s autumn-fall season or you’re looking for a warming everyday hearty bread like this star bread with a rustic cap to fall in love with. ⭐️ 🍞

Walnut raisin bread is another name for Pan co’Santi that’s an All Saints Day bread. Add in your bananas for a banana bread that most people go bananas over.

And you can douse in some cinnamon to celebrate National Cinnamon Day on November 1.

Anything bread happy goes these days!

And you can turn a joy-filled banana walnut bread into a fruit cake bread filled with raisins, dates, cranberries… and cherries too?

These are all great pairing ingredients for a banana bread. 🍌

And adding walnuts to make a banana walnut bread loaf reminds us of home baking. It does for me as I remember taking a loaf to school my mom had baked. She didn’t bake often but I remember my teacher asking for the recipe that of course I didn’t have and my mom didn’t either (cooking and baking by heart like so many moms from earlier generations and oversees cultures).

Bananas though are universal.

And you can make your version of a banana walnut bread loaf for a sweet breakfast dessert that goes with a best chocolate chai, hot cocoa, or orange juice coffee.

…But this banana bread is EVEN better… it’s heavenly and has landed on the plate like a meteor in the shape of the sun. ☀️ You can see the whitish chopped walnut contrasting the dark purple raisins.

Or it’s a shooting star under the sun. 🌠 …either way, it’s earthly food that was sliced in half to enjoy and you can make today.

…Like bread that fell from the sky like a gift during Biblical Ezekiel’s era. It was sent daily from above with love. 💌🌤️

And you can have the same experience from your miracle oven.

Bread afterall is life.

And LIFE is a gift.

Where we can appreciate the present as in now (and 🎁).

And for the blessing of our daily bread, like this banana walnut bread. 🍞

Bread used to be a food category on its own as one of the four basic food groups when I was growing up. And food is one of the 4 basic needs of survival, so that makes bread a need for us (and this one needs no knead 😊).

These days, since our lives are more complex and we have more healthy food options, we get to choose. Bread is one option in the broader acceptable grain category for healthy living.

Flipped bottom side up, you can see the bread’s hearty glow from the sunlight, next to the flower and moon. 🌻🌕

You can make your celestial or favorite grounded shapes with your baking pans and molds that you use for making bread, cake, and donuts.

You can also make a moist chocolate banana cake bread recipe.

Because of how moist and sweet it comes out piping hot from the oven is why I call it cake bread.

…Part of that comes from the nature of adding ripe bananas that are wet.

That’s one way this recipe is super simple.

Another way is there’s no need for yeast, proofing, or proofing time.

And a third way is you won’t need a mixer as you can do this all by hand with little effort.

…So maybe I got your attention now. 😊

And to lean in on easy recipes, I like to mix using a regular metal kitchen spoon instead of a whisk because the batter can get sticky and you end up losing a big part of the batter that way… and that could be the reason for a low-rise bread (as there’s less batter).

Mixing is also why this is more like a cake recipe, but turns out like a bread in the magical oven.

The baking secret is to use use enough flour so that the cake bread can stand almost firm on its own. That will better ensure a bread with homemade bread holes.

We don’t want too dense of a bread (like a gluten-free flour would make), but we want a moist bread that will rise with a little dome, and not look flat in the end. 

And if you’re like me, you probably like to see the ingredients first to see if you have them and want to use or eat them at the end. 😋

So here’s the banana walnut bread (or Pan co’Santi bread) easy ingredient list:

mashed bananas

healthy oil

maple syrup

eggs

yogurt liquid (or milk)

flour

baking soda/powder

salt

ground cinnamon

optional: walnuts, dates, raisins, craisins

And that’s it!… go Pan co’Santi bananas and welcome in the new season weather and time changes!

Tip: If you don’t have baking powder on hand, you can omit that. Your loaf will be not be as leavened (risen), but you will still get a little rise with the baking soda activated with the maple syrup and yogurt liquid if using (or you can sub in buttermilk, or ACV with milk as other options).

You can also try these other autumn bread recipes.