Banana bread loaf on a plate. Banana bread is banana zucchini muffins type of cake made from mashed bananas. It is often a moist and sweet quick bread but some recipes are yeast raised.

Banana bread recipes began to feature in well-known cookbooks across North America as baking soda and baking powder were being mass produced and becoming available in grocery stores in the 1930s. National Banana Bread Day is February 23. Bananas appeared in the US in the 1870s and it took a while for them to appear as ingredient items for desserts. In the Philippines, banana bread is usually called “banana cake. It was introduced during the American colonial period of the Philippines. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Pillsbury Flour Mills Company. A Few Thoughts on America’s Favorite Fruit.