Turn in your classic banana bread recipe with this delectable Coconut Banana Bread with Lime Glaze. Loaded with scrumptious sweet coconut, dark rum, and banana flavors and finished with a citrus lime glaze, this is the best coconut banana bread recipe to refresh your morning routine!
I love to serve this banana bread recipe as a part of brunch, snack, or as the perfect ending to dinner. It is simple to make, loaded with tropical flavors, and is sure to be the best coconut banana bread recipe in your recipe file.
❤️ Why I Love This Recipe
✔️ It is the perfect way to use up overripe bananas.
✔️ This coconut banana bread recipe brings sunshine to your morning with all the fresh flavors of the tropics!
✔️ This moist banana bread is perfect for breakfast or snacking and is very portable.
🥘 Ingredients
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Dark rum
Powdered sugar (also known as confectioners' sugar)
🔪 Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, and salt, stirring with a whisk to combine.
- Using a hand mixer, in a large bowl, mix together the sugar and butter at medium speed until creamy. Add the eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix in the mashed bananas, yogurt, rum, and vanilla, mixing until well blended.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and beat at low speed just until moist. Stir in ½ cup coconut. Spoon the batter into a 9 x 5-inch prepared loaf pan coated with cooking spray and sprinkle with 1 tablespoon coconut.
- Bake for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan on a wire rack; remove from pan. Combine powdered sugar and juice, stirring with a whisk; drizzle over warm bread. Cool bread completely on wire rack.
🙋 Recipe FAQ's
For the each egg, combine 1 tablespoon of flax with 3 tablespoons of water and allow to sit for 5 minutes to thicken. The yogurt can be substituted with unsweetened coconut yogurt, and the butter can be replaced with a vegan butter or coconut oil.
It could have something to do with the temperature of your oven being off. Check the temperature of the oven using an oven thermometer to be sure it is calibrated correctly. Another possibility is the batter could have been overmixed, causing gluten to develop making the bread dense and doughy in the center or on the bottom of the loaf.
This is not a bad thing to happen and it is common when baking quick breads. As the bread bakes on the inside it expands and can cause the top to rise and split
💭 Tips
- Be sure to use room temperature butter and eggs to prevent curdling.
- Overripe bananas give the best results as they will add more sweetness and banana flavor.
- When glazing the bread, place a sheet of parchment paper beneath the cooling rack to catch any drips and prevent a mess on the counter.
📖 Variations
- Stir 1 cup dark chocolate chips into the batter.
- Sour cream makes a good substitute for yogurt.
- Make 3 mini loaves instead of a whole loaf.
- For an alcohol free recipe, leave out the rum and use ½ tablespoon of rum extract in the cake.
- Light brown sugar can be substituted for the granulated sugar.
🍽 Equipment
🏫 What I've Learned
Banana bread can turn out heavy and dense in the center or on the bottom of the loaf. This is usually the result of over mixing the batter. To prevent this, I put the electric mixer away when it came time to mix the flour mixture into the banana mixture I used a wooden spoon and just folded the flour in until it was "just" blended.
Serving Suggestions
Serve this banana coconut bread with butter or this Salted Maple Butter Spread and a glass of milk, hot cup of coffee or tea.
Storage
Store in an airtight container up to 4 days on the counter, 1 week in the refrigerator, or 3 months in the freezer.
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Coconut Banana Bread with Lime Glaze
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup butter , softened
- 2 large eggs
- 1½ cups bananas , mashed
- ¼ cup plain low-fat yogurt
- 3 tablespoons dark rum
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup flaked sweetened coconut
- 1 tablespoon flaked sweetened coconut
- ½ cup confectioners' sugar
- 1½ tablespoons lime juice
Instructions
For the bread
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, and salt, stirring with a whisk to combine.
- Using a hand mixer, in a large bowl, mix together the sugar and butter at medium speed until creamy. Add the eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the mashed bananas, yogurt, rum, and vanilla, mixing until well blended.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and beat at low speed just until moist. Stir in ½ cup coconut. Spoon the batter into a prepared loaf pan coated with cooking spray and sprinkle the top of the batter with 1 tablespoon coconut.
- Bake for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan on a wire rack; remove from pan and place on wire rack for glazing.
For the glaze
- In a small bowl, using a hand whisk, combine the powdered sugar and juice until smooth. Drizzle the over warm bread. Cool bread completely on wire rack.
Caitlin
This is so my next banana bread recipe...I'm loving the coconut and lime (& all things Caribbean).
Tami
This recipe sounds amazing!!
I am linking this recipe on my Weekly Menu for next week and ! I hope your OK with me borrowing your picture (with full credit, of course)as I like it so much better than the one from Cooking Light!!
I love your site, and thanks for the great recipes!
Maggie
I love the combo of coconut and lime! Every Christmas I make coconut-lime cookies - it's a regular butter cookie with lime zest added to the batter, and once the cookies bake, they're dipped in a lime glaze and topped with coconut. 🙂
Tangled Noodle
This is such a perfect combination of flavors! I'm on a coconut binge right now and I love the little flakes peeking out of the bread. Delicious!
Creative One
The bread looks delicious. Such a great combination of flavors.
CookiePie
So happy you're feeling better!!
That bread looks just gorgeous -- I have some coconut left over from Passover macaroons - this may be the perfect way to use it!
alice
This looks great. I have some bananas on my counter now that should work in a couple of days.
HoneyB
Jenn, coconut rum would definitely work!
Kiran, you could probably use dessicated coconut with no problem in the batter. I am not sure how it would work for the topping. I honestly have never used dessicated coconut myself....but I believe it is drier than what I used (Bakers flaked coconut).
Kiran
This seems like a wonderful recipe, reminding of the warm tropical flavours. might have to give it a go, only question can I use dessicated coconut ? The picture is great and looks like a wonderful moist bread.
Hope you get better soon and take lots of rest, if you can stay away from the kitchen 😉
shellyfish
So happy to hear that you're feeling back to normal.
The bread looks great, now if you'll indluge me "he put the lime in the coconut and drank it all up..."
Clumbsy Cookie
That must taste amazing ans smell amazing as well! It's a great combo! Glad you're doing better!
NanaLana
Wow! This looks great. I've added it to my to-do list.
Pam
I am so glad you are feeling better - YEAH! The lime/coconut/banana bread is calling my name - three of my favorite ingredients together. YUM!
Donna-FFW
All my favorite flavors in one bread, you are so my hero!! I love the sound of this!! I would love some toasted believe it or not with butter..
Pamela
You know, I keep meaning to try this one, because every one who makes this seems to rave about it. It looks beautiful. I'm sorry, I've been out of the loop a bit. However, I'm glad that you are feeling better! Take care.
Kevin
This is one great sounding bread!
Coleen's Recipes
What a nice combination of flavors!! Looking forward to trying this one. Thanks for posting.