Banana Bread Fruit Leather Recipe
Who loves banana bread? The fresh-baked goodness is sweet with pureed ripe bananas baked. I love banana bread for breakfasts, afternoon snacks, and desserts. Typically, I will make banana bread when my bananas turn a pleasant shade of brown. You know the brown where the bananas are perfectly ripe and tasty but too brown that no one in the family will eat those bananas fresh.
Now there is a second recipe you can make with the same overly ripe bananas while not letting them go to waste, my banana bread fruit leather. And you want to know what, this recipe is gluten-free, unlike the actual banana bread baked in the oven. There is no flour or extra added sugar. Banana bread fruit leather is a fantastic after-school snack for the kids that is healthy without even them knowing it.
Dehydrating this banana bread fruit leather will fool everyone. It will make your entire house smell like banana bread, and it also tastes like the real thing. It truly is a wonderful and unique treat for every age. I like to use my handy dandy Nesco Snackmaster Express Food Dehydrator. Purchasing an extra Nesco American Harvest Fruit Roll-Up Sheet will help speed up the process to make this fruit leather as well.
Cost to make this recipe.
Besides the vanilla extract, there aren’t any other ingredients in this recipe that I can grow or make to help reduce the cost from $2.76 for the entire batch of a banana fruit roll-up. I hope to make my vanilla yogurt, and that may reduce the price. Definitely something worth looking into.
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Banana Bread Fruit Leather
Ingredients
- 4 large bananas ripe…[$0.80]
- 1 cup vanilla yogurt …[$0.67]
- 2 tsp. ground cinnamon …[$0.08]
- 1 tsp vanilla extract …[$0.70]
- 1 tsp. almond extract …[$0.51]
Instructions
- Puree all the ingredients together in a large bowl.
- Pour mixture in greased jelly roll sheet or baking sheet. Dehydrate at 135 °F for 6-8 hours or until pliable but not sticky.
- Let cool completely and store in an air-tight container.
Banana Bread Fruit Leather
Cooking Methods
- Dehydrator
Ingredients
- 4 large bananas, ripe…[$0.80]
- 1 cup vanilla yogurt, …[$0.67]
- 2 tsp. ground cinnamon, …[$0.08]
- 1 tsp vanilla extract, …[$0.70]
- 1 tsp. almond extract, …[$0.51]
Instructions
- Puree all the ingredients together in a large bowl.
- Pour mixture in greased jelly roll sheet or baking sheet. Dehydrate at 135 °F for 6-8 hours or until soft and pliable but not sticky.
- Let cool completely and store in an air tight container.