The Famous Chrissy Teigen Banana Bread Recipe from “Cravings: Hungry for More”

The Chrissy Teigen banana bread recipe from her new cookbook, “Cravings: Hungry for More,” is legendary on social media. Get the recipe to see for yourself.

Chrissy Teigen‘s new cookbook is HERE!!! I still make the Lemony Arugula Spaghetti Cacio e Pepe pasta from her first cookbook on the reg, and that recipe is my ride. or. die. I whip it up at least once a month, and for a time it was more like weekly. So the love is real.

Before her debut cookbook was released in 2016, I shared her recipe for Cobb Salad with Honey-Mustard Ranch Dressing, which, she writes, “gets me more Instagram likes than my boobs.” The social media favorite from her second cookbook, “Cravings: Hungry for More” (out September 18), is this banana bread. Chrissy writes in the book that this recipe took her a year to perfect and “launched a million tweets and a hundred thousand Instagram tags.”

To be clear, this is not a “healthy” banana bread recipe. You won’t find any applesauce or almond flour here. There are 2 full cups of sugar inside. But the secret ingredient is the vanilla instant pudding mix. “Vanilla pudding gave it a fluffy, moist texture I could have never imagined,” Chrissy writes. Also, I live for coconut, so I knew I had to try this. ALSO, she means business about the kosher salt, and she uses the Diamond Crystal brand. Apparently this is a non-negotiable.

She says hundreds of people still tag her in banana bread pictures every day. So let’s skip to the recipe and get started. Don’t forget to tag her on Insta!

And pick up this amazing cookbook for yourself. Seriously, it’s that good.

Twitter’s (and Uncle Mike’s) Banana Bread

Serves 12
Active time: 15 minutes
Total time: 1 hour, 15 minutes

• 2 cups mashed very ripe bananas*
• 4 eggs
• 2/3 cup canola oil, plus a little more to grease the pan
• 2 cups all-purpose flour, plus a little more for dusting the pan
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 (3.5-ounce) box vanilla instant pudding mix**
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 ½ teaspoons kosher salt
• 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
• 1 (3.5-ounce) bar dark chocolate, chopped into chunks
• Salted butter, for serving

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
2. In a large bowl, combine the mashed bananas, eggs, and oil. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, sugar, pudding mix, baking soda, and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and combine well BUT GENTLY. I swear this came out differently when I used an aggressive electric mixer. Fold in the coconut and chocolate chunks.
3. Grease and flour a Bundt pan (that means wipe a little grease all over the inside of the pan, dust it with flour, and tip it upside down to shake out any extra flour). Pour the batter into the pan. (This can also make two 8 x 4-inch loaves, but it’s so much more moist in one Bundt pan!)
4. Bake until the bake springs back when lightly pressed and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 55-60 minutes. (Test it with a toothpick at around 50 minutes.) Let it cool slightly in the pan, then use a butter knife to gently release the cake from the sides of the pan and around the inner circle, then flip it onto a plate.
5. Let it cool, and cut it into slices. Rewarm them and serve them with salty butter!!

*Get six brown bananas. Not four. Not five. Six. You will think you only need five because it will look like enough, but it will not be enough. You will get five, you will mash them, you will be about half an inch short and that makes a difference and you cannot get around it. Trust me.

**I won’t tell you what brand to use, but the right brand rhymes with smello. Don’t use banana-flavored pudding mix. I tried it. It is gross.

Get “Cravings: Hungry for More” at Target for a few bonus snack recipes, and on September 30 you can also shop her VERY FIRST HOME COLLECTION AT TARGET! Yes, I’m freaking out about it a little. For real though, mark your calendars because it will sell out fast.

The Cravings by Chrissy Teigen collection at Target includes cookware, serving pieces, prep tools and more. You’ll find Le Creuset look-alike baking dishes, cookware sets with beautiful gold accents, her go-to knife that is great for literally anything you need in the kitchen, the cutest little set of snack bowls and so many pretty white bake dishes and accents. Everything you need to thrive in the kitchen.

Now go forth and shop and eat! Your kitchen and your belly are about to be filled with all things Cravings.

 

Cookbook photos by Aubrie Pick