Coconut Banana Bread with Lime Glaze {Baking with Coconut Oil + GIVEAWAY!}

I love using coconut oil to make Chocolate Covered Banana Freezer Bites and Sweet Potato, Sausage and Spinach Hash, but there are some great ways that you can substitute coconut oil for other fats in your baking too.

Instead of using butter for this banana bread recipe, I used coconut oil. The result was a super moist bread with a light coconut taste. Combined with a coconut crust and a lime glaze, you have a great tropical treat.

The lovely tropical flavour from the coconut, bananas and lime helped me forget that I'm in the middle of a Canadian winter, and not somewhere near the Caribbean.

What you need:

• 1/2 cup Virgin Coconut Oil (or Butter)
• 1 cup Cream Cheese
• 1 cup Brown Sugar
• 1 Egg
• 2 ripe, medium-size Bananas
• 1-1/2 cups Flour
• 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp Nutmeg
• 1/8 tsp Ginger
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• Pinch of Salt
• 1/2 cup Coconut Flakes
• Extra 2 tbsp of Coconut Flakes on top (optional)

Glaze:

• 1/3 cup Powdered Sugar
• 1 tbsp Lime Juice

Preheat oven to 350ºF.  Line a loaf pan, with parchment paper.  Combine flour, cinnamon, spices, baking soda, baking powder and salt together in a large mixing bowl. Set aside.

In a mixing bowl, cream together coconut oil and cream cheese.
(In my new mixer. Love it!!!!)

Add in brown sugar, and mix at medium speed, until fluffy, about 5 minutes.  Add the egg and bananas, mix until combined.

Add the dry ingredients and mix on medium speed, until just moistened. Stir in coconut flakes.

Pour into loaf pan and sprinkle with extra 1 tbsp of coconut flakes if you’d like. Bake for 45 to 55 minutes, or until golden brown.  A toothpick inserted in the centre should come out clean.

Allow bread to cool in the pan, on a cooling rack, for 10 minutes. Carefully remove from pan and allow to cool for another 20 minutes. 

Whisk together powdered sugar and lime juice, and pour glaze over bread. Allow to sit for 15 minutes before slicing to serve.

The glaze oozed it's way into all the crevices of the coconut.

I can already see that this banana bread is going to become a regular request in our house. The whole loaf was gone in no time. 

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Now for the Giveaway...

I'm very excited to announce that the folks at 
Tropical Traditions are giving one lucky reader their 
own quart of Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil!

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Tropical Traditions' Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil is hand crafted in small batches by family producers, and it is the highest quality coconut oil they offer. You can read more about how virgin coconut oil is different from other coconut oils on their website: What is Virgin Coconut Oil?

Tropical Traditions also carries other varieties of affordable high quality coconut oil. Visit their website to check on current sales, to learn about the many uses of coconut oil, and to read about all the advantages of buying coconut oil online. Since the FDA does not want us to discuss the health benefits of coconut oil on a page where it is being sold or given away, here is the best website to read about the health benefits of coconut oil.

Disclaimer: Tropical Traditions provided me with a free sample of this product to review, and I was under no obligation to review it if I so chose.  Nor was I under any obligation to write a positive review or sponsor a product giveaway in return for the free product.