Quick Bread Recipes

Quick breads are easy homemade breads made without yeast, so they don’t require rising time. From classic banana bread and zucchini bread to pumpkin, apple, chocolate, and sweet donut breads, there are plenty of flavors to choose from.

Here are some of my favorite quick bread recipes. Whether you need an easy breakfast, snack, or something sweet to bake, you’ll find a loaf for just about every craving.

• Banana Bread Recipes
• Zucchini Bread Recipes
• Apple Bread Recipes
• Pumpkin Bread Recipes
• Donut Bread Recipes
• Other Quick Bread Recipes

Banana Bread Recipes

Banana bread is a classic quick bread for a reason! From traditional banana bread to chocolate, berry, and peanut butter versions, you can use those ripe bananas in plenty of ways.

Banana Bread

This Banana Bread is loaded with plenty of ripe bananas to give you lots of banana flavor in each bite! It is the best banana bread because it is made with almost double the bananas in other recipes! Not only is this the best banana bread you will ever taste, but it also comes together easily without any fancy tools or equipment.

Buttermilk Banana Bread

The perfect banana bread contains one special ingredient, buttermilk! It helps to produce this light, almost white, banana bread that cannot be achieved with a normal recipe. The flavor is spot on, with all the banana goodness you would want, but also a presentation that will leave people with questions. “How did you get it so light?” The answer is simple, buttermilk.

Triple Chocolate Banana Bread

This triple chocolate banana bread is definitely a triple chocolate threat but in the sweetest way! The bread is made with cocoa powder, milk chocolate, and semi-sweet chocolate to give it all that chocolate flavor. Then, the added bananas in the mix are the perfect complement to the chocolate.

Sourdough Banana Bread

This Banana Bread made with a sourdough starter is a light and delicious bread full of pure banana flavor that is so good you don’t even need to add butter! It is so light and the banana flavor really comes out in this bread with every bite. It is really a bread to go bananas for

Cinnamon Sugar Banana Bread

I have always been a fan of banana bread, and the more ‘banana-y’, the better! In fact, I have quite a few forms of banana bread recipes, including The Best Banana Muffins and Buttermilk Banana Bread. They are all great to have with your morning cup of coffee or as an easy snack to eat anytime! The added cinnamon and sugar topping for Cinnamon Banana Bread just makes this treat that much sweeter.

Toasted Coconut Chocolate Banana Bread

Toasted Coconut Chocolate Banana Bread is rich chocolate banana bread topped with a salted caramel coconut glaze. Made with cocoa powder, milk chocolate, and semi-sweet chocolate, it is finished with toasted coconut for a sweet, Samoa-inspired treat.

Blueberry Banana Bread

Blueberry Banana Bread is a moist, flavorful quick bread made with ripe bananas and juicy fresh blueberries. It’s a delicious way to put a fruity spin on classic banana bread.

Strawberry Banana Bread

Strawberry Banana Bread is a moist, flavorful quick bread made with ripe bananas and juicy fresh strawberries. You will also love my Strawberry Banana Muffins!

Honey Banana Bread

Honey Banana Bread is a soft, moist quick bread sweetened with honey instead of sugar. Ripe bananas add flavor and moisture, making this an easy, delicious loaf for breakfast or a snack.

Zucchini Bread Recipes

Zucchini makes quick bread wonderfully moist and tender. These recipes range from classic zucchini bread to chocolate, banana, apple, and peanut butter versions.

Best Zucchini Bread

Best Zucchini Bread is a moist, flavorful quick bread that is easy to make and packed with fresh zucchini. It bakes into a tender loaf with plenty of zucchini flavor in every slice.

Banana Zucchini Bread

Banana Zucchini Bread is a moist, delicious quick bread made with ripe bananas and shredded zucchini. It’s an easy way to use up extra zucchini and makes a great snack or treat with a cup of coffee. This bread is based on my popular Banana Zucchini Muffins.

Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Chocolate Zucchini Bread is a rich, moist quick bread made with fresh zucchini, cocoa, and chocolate chips. It’s an easy way to use up zucchini while enjoying plenty of chocolate flavor. For another chocolatey zucchini treat, try my fudgy Zucchini Brownies.

Peanut Butter Zucchini Bread

Peanut Butter Zucchini Bread is a soft, sweet quick bread with rich peanut butter flavor. Zucchini keeps it moist, while a drizzle of melted peanut butter adds even more flavor. Optional chopped peanuts add a little crunch.

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread is a moist, tender quick bread made with fresh zucchini and plenty of milk chocolate chips. The zucchini keeps every slice soft and moist, while the chocolate chips add a sweet, chocolatey bite.

Apple Zucchini Bread

Apple Zucchini Bread is a quick bread that is a perfect summer-to-fall treat. This recipe is a great way to use up that summer zucchini, plus add in the apples that are in season in the fall! And the crumb topping sweetens the bread just enough to make it a dessert or even a breakfast treat.

Apple Bread Recipes

Apples add sweetness and plenty of flavor to quick breads. This collection includes apple fritter bread, apple butter bread, applesauce bread, and more.

Apple Fritter Bread

This Apple Fritter Bread is inspired by my Apple Fritters. I wanted the same amazing flavors but to be able to bake it instead of frying. The entire family agrees it’s a winning quick bread! Cut apples are surrounded with cinnamon and brown sugar to almost caramelize in the oven and create a soft texture that will melt in your mouth!

Caramel Apple Fritter Bread

Caramel Apple Fritter Bread is a soft, tender quick bread with cinnamon-sugar apples and a sweet caramel drizzle. It has all the flavors of a caramel apple fritter without the frying!

Apple Butter Bread

Apple Butter Bread is a soft, moist quick bread made with my Slow Cooker Apple Butter, warm cinnamon, and nutmeg. A simple apple cider glaze finishes each slice.

Applesauce Bread

Applesauce Bread is a moist, flavorful quick bread made with applesauce, warm spices, oats, and sour cream. A simple glaze adds a sweet finish, with no apples to chop!

Pumpkin Bread Recipes

Pumpkin bread is always a favorite when pumpkin season rolls around. These loaves include classic pumpkin bread along with chocolate, maple, cream cheese, and donut-inspired versions.

Pumpkin Bread

Best Ever Pumpkin Bread is a moist and flavorful bread full of pumpkin flavor that is as easy to make as it is delicious! It will satisfy your pumpkin spice craving, and it is so easy to make. This pumpkin bread has a fairly dense crumb and would be delicious paired with a cup of coffee or as a snack any time of the day.

Pumpkin Chocolate Bread

Pumpkin and chocolate go very well together, and I love the flavor combination. If you are unsure at all, this is the recipe to ease your way into the flavor combination; it is mostly pumpkin, but with just a bit of chocolate taste in each bite.

Maple Pecan Pumpkin Bread

Maple Pecan Pumpkin Bread is a soft, spiced pumpkin loaf with chopped pecans and a warm maple syrup soak. It’s based on my Best Pumpkin Bread for a delicious maple twist.

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread is a soft, tender loaf packed with melty chocolate chips and warm pumpkin flavor. It’s an easy quick bread that’s perfect for fall baking.

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Loaf

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Loaf is a super moist pumpkin bread with cream cheese swirls inside that will keep you begging for pumpkin spice season to never end! I would say I have another great pumpkin treat or dessert with this Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Loaf. In fact, great just doesn’t seem like the right word for this bread. Maybe amazing, grand, delightful…I could go on and on, but I will get to the all-important recipe.

Donut Bread Recipes

These quick breads take all the fun flavors of donuts and turn them into easy-to-bake loaves. Choose from cinnamon sugar, vanilla glaze, chocolate, apple cider, maple, and pumpkin.

Cinnamon Sugar Donut Bread

Cinnamon Sugar Donut Bread is a soft, tender quick bread coated in cinnamon sugar for all the flavor of a sugar donut in loaf form. For the muffin version, try my Cinnamon Sugar Donut Muffins.

Glazed Donut Bread

Glazed Donut Bread is a soft, sweet quick bread topped with a warm vanilla glaze. It’s inspired by my Cinnamon Sugar Donut Bread, but finished with a smooth vanilla glaze.

Chocolate Donut Bread

Chocolate Donut Bread is a soft, moist quick bread with rich chocolate flavor, a sweet crunchy topping, and smooth milk chocolate ganache. It’s like a chocolate donut in loaf form!

Apple Cider Donut Bread

Apple Cider Donut Bread is a soft, moist quick bread packed with apple cider and warm apple pie spice. A cider soak and cinnamon-sugar topping give it all the flavor of an apple cider donut! I also have Apple Cider Muffins you will love!

Maple Glazed Donut Bread

Maple Glazed Donut Bread is a soft, tender quick bread with warm nutmeg and a rich maple glaze. It has all the flavor of an old-fashioned maple donut in an easy loaf.

Pumpkin Donut Bread

Pumpkin Donut Bread is a soft, moist loaf made with pumpkin and warm spices, then coated in a sweet cinnamon-sugar topping. It has all the flavor of pumpkin bread with the fun finish of a donut.

Other Quick Bread Recipes

There are plenty of quick breads that don’t fit into one specific category. From beer bread and buttermilk sweet bread to blueberry, peanut butter, pecan, lemon, and peach bread, there is something for every craving.

Beer Bread

This Beer Bread recipe is not only simple, but it is also out of this world delicious! Follow my tricks to make an out-of-this-world Beer Bread! I promise it will be the only recipe you will ever need! I made no less than 10 different beer bread recipes before coming back to the basics. This recipe is based on one my grandma made in the 1970’s using Schmidt’s beer. No one ever told me it had beer in it, and I certainly never asked! But I do remember it having the most amazing unique flavor that I never experienced at home. I always thought grandma just had special magic when it came to baking. (Truth is, I think she does!)

Old Fashioned Buttermilk Sweet Bread

This old fashioned Buttermilk Sweet Bread is a recipe we make often because it is so versatile! It’s a quick bread with just a hint of sweetness and goes perfectly with almost any meal! This recipe was a bit different than most quick bread I make as it doesn’t have a specific flavor profile. Which now that I think about, I really like. I said it once but I’ll say it again, this is one heck of a versatile bread!

Easy Blueberry Bread

Easy Blueberry Bread is a quick bread made with fresh blueberries that is the perfect way to start your day or enjoy it as a snack. The ingredients are easily mixed together and ready to bake immediately. The baking time is not the quickest (80 minutes), but the prep time is super quick.

Blender Peanut Butter Bread

Who knew that you could have a loaf of freshly baked bread without all the fuss of kneading the dough and letting it rise? This quick bread is even quicker than other quick bread recipes since all the mixing is done in a blender! Add a banana to the mix and you get a subtle banana taste that pairs so nicely with the peanut butter flavor.

Pecan Ice Cream Bread

Pecan Ice Cream Bread is a soft quick bread that is made with butter pecan ice cream, self-rising flour, and chopped pecans, topped with homemade maple butter. It can be quickly made and quickly eaten, that is for sure!

Lemon Loaf

When life gives you lemons, make a lemon loaf! If you are craving a refreshing piece of cake, this is the loaf to make! The cake starts with a moist lemon cake. The cake is then topped with an easy-to-make sweet lemon glaze. It is delicious with a cup of coffee or as an afternoon snack.

Peach Bread

Peach Bread is a moist, sweet quick bread made with canned peaches and topped with a peach glaze, so you can enjoy it year-round.

FAQs

What is quick bread?

Quick bread is bread made without yeast, so it does not need time to rise. Baking soda or baking powder is usually used to help the bread rise instead.

Why is it called quick bread?

Quick breads are called “quick” because they do not require yeast or a long rising time. Mix the batter, pour it into a loaf pan, and bake!

What are the most popular types of quick bread?

Some of the most popular quick breads include banana bread, zucchini bread, pumpkin bread, apple bread, and sweet breads made with chocolate, fruit, or nuts.

Can I add mix-ins to quick bread?

Yes! Chocolate chips, nuts, dried fruit, coconut, and other mix-ins can be added to many quick bread recipes. Check the individual recipe for specific recommendations.

Why did my quick bread sink in the middle?

A quick bread can sink if the batter is overmixed, the leavening agents are old, or the loaf is removed from the oven before it has finished baking. Follow the recipe closely and avoid opening the oven too early.

How should I store quick bread?

Most quick breads can be stored at room temperature in an airtight container or tightly wrapped for a few days. Check the individual recipe for specific storage instructions, especially for breads with cream cheese or other perishable toppings.

There you have it! So many quick breads, and no yeast or rising time needed. Pick a loaf, grab your mixing bowl, and get baking!