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Banana Coconut Sweet Bread: Guest Post for Food Babbles

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This Banana Coconut Sweet Bread is incredibly easy to make. It uses coconut in each element to really give it a tropical twist. Enjoy!

Banana Coconut Sweet Bread | This Banana-Coconut Sweet Bread is incredibly easy to make. It uses coconut in each element to really give it a tropical twist. Enjoy!

This sweet bread recipe is one of our favourites. It’s one I’ve been making for about 15 years. It takes my Mom’s Banana Bread recipe and changes it up a little bit.

The addition of coconut comes from my extreme love of all things coconut. I am a coconut recipe fiend. I can never get enough of it.

I made this recipe for my friend, Kate. She blogs at Food Babbles. I heart her so very much. Kate had to take some time off recently so I knew I wanted to help. If you are in a rush you can hop right on over there to grab the recipe for this Banana Coconut Sweet Bread.

When I think of Kate’s blog I always think of her bread recipes. So I knew I wanted to make some form of bread. My daughter asked me to make some banana bread so one thing lead to another, and this gorgeous bread went into the oven.

Banana Coconut Sweet Bread | This Banana-Coconut Sweet Bread is incredibly easy to make. It uses coconut in each element to really give it a tropical twist. Enjoy!

I ended up making four different sweet bread recipes the day I made this. There’s something about a cool Fall day that just makes me want to spend the entire day in the kitchen baking up a storm. So that’s exactly what I did. I enjoyed every last minute of it.

That day I made an Apple Streusel Sweet Bread, another version of this coconut bread with different ingredients. Finally I made a plain Banana Bread just for mini-me.

Banana Coconut Sweet Bread | This Banana-Coconut Sweet Bread is incredibly easy to make. It uses coconut in each element to really give it a tropical twist. Enjoy!

Any time mini-me requests something special for me to bake I try to oblige. I’m sure it would appear to be a pretty cool thing to have a mom be a food blogger. But if you’re like mini-me and tend to be a plain eater it can be sort of annoying. I am always whipping up recipes but rarely make the same thing on a consistent basis. So I had to indulge the poor hooligan.

The house just smelled amazing the day I baked all of them. I was sure with my windows being open that the neighbours would have showed up at my door with plates. Luckily that did not happen. Some days you just don’t want to share.

Banana Coconut Sweet Bread | This Banana-Coconut Sweet Bread is incredibly easy to make. It uses coconut in each element to really give it a tropical twist. Enjoy!

However I would always being willing to share with my pal, Kate. She’s such a special lady. Good friends are hard to come by in life, so when you make them you cherish them. Kate is a very dear friend and I’m so thrilled to be sharing this recipe over on her blog today. So swing on over to Food Babbles to get the recipe for this Banana Coconut Sweet Bread.

Make sure you follow Kate’s blog, Food Babbles while you’re there. You should also follow her on social media, you can find her on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and G+.

Kate is not only awesome with bread, but she’s also a whiz with pie recipes. Her Deep Dish Banoffee Pie is stunning. She has a spectacular cookie recipe lineup too. Plus you should see her brownie and bar recipes, seriously, the choices are vast and delicious.

Banana Coconut Sweet Bread | This Banana-Coconut Sweet Bread is incredibly easy to make. It uses coconut in each element to really give it a tropical twist. Enjoy!

I’ll be whipping up more bread recipes soon. I can’t wait to share them with you. If I can tear myself away from shoving them in my face long enough to take photos. That’s the hardest part of food blogging, the waiting to dive in while the photos get taken. It’s like time goes on and on while it’s happening.

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Toodles and smoochies! xx

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    • It is so good Diane. I am in love with this one. There’s something about banana and coconut that just makes sense.

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  4. Kate is amazing and I love her to death! If I were a banana and coconut girl you know I’d be all over this bread. Quick breads are the best thing to make the winter, they come together with ease and house smells amazing. Plus I love that the coconut makes it look like snow on top.

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    • Me too, she’s good people.

      I promise an apple one soon, might be more your style. I almost added booze to it, but then I realized I didn’t have any booze. Ha

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    • Me too Julie. I just think the smell can change your whole day. It’s hard to be in a bad mood when the house smells so good. I got so carried away. But it was so fun.

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    • I heart you Miss Kate. I can’t wait till our next conference. We’re going to go out and whoop it up, or go shopping, whatever happens first.

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  10. It’s hard not to think about the tropics when I see all that coconut dripping with the glaze down the side of the bread. We’re big sweet bread fans too. I should do like you and make four loaves at a time so they last longer than 24 hours. 🙂

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    • I know, me too. Wish we were munching on this in the tropics.

      I have this habit of picking one day a week where I just cook and bake all day long. Started when the kids were young and has become a bit of a tradition around here. I used to do it on Sundays so we had stuff for lunches all through the school week.

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    • Thanks Erin. I tend to be an overkill kind of gal, but it’s so much fun to do. I could not stop grabbing slices of this one. Eating the very last piece now.

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    • Thanks Ashley, I just went nuts with sweet breads when planning this post. It sort of spiralled out of control.

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    • It’s pretty hard to resist. I just cannot get enough. I’ve been known to buy fresh ones just to munch on.

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