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Gluten free banana bread muffins
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Open in Pepper →Every top-saved banana recipe on Pepper starts the same way — three or four bananas past their prime on the counter, ready to be baked instead of thrown out.
Home cooks who bake with bananas mash them ripe and rely on their sweetness so the sugar can come down and the crumb still stays tender.
The recipes here mostly bake in one bowl, freeze cleanly by the slice, and turn a bruised banana into breakfast for the whole week.
Use overripe bananas
Brown, spotty, ugly bananas are the sweetest — and the whole reason the crumb stays moist.
Mash to your loaf, not to purée
Chunks of mashed banana in the batter keep the texture interesting.
Don’t overmix
Once the flour is in, stir just until it disappears — overworked batter turns the loaf gummy.
Cool before slicing
Banana bread finishes cooking as it cools — cut too early and the middle collapses.