Jamerrill’s Freezer Fruit Bread Recipe: Blueberry Bread, Apple Sauce Bread, Banana Bread
I often share on my freezing cooking days about making various fruit breads and freezing them for the upcoming month. I run my mouth freely about blueberry bread, applesauce bread, and banana bread. My recipe is very simple and easy (how I roll 🙂 ). I make many pan fulls at a time and freeze for the coming weeks. If we need a loaf of blueberry bread for breakfast I will give everyone a slice with a yogurt, apple, or banana on the side. Add a cold glass of milk and the kiddos have lots of energy for our morning forest adventures.
The freezing and defrosting process is very simple. I store each loaf in a gallon size freezer bag. I’ll either set a bag out in the refrigerator the night before we need it or I put it in the microwave for a quick defrost the morning of. I also have a similar variation of fruit bread in the bread machine if you’re interested.
Jamerrill’s Freezer Fruit Bread Recipe: Blueberry Bread, Apple Sauce Bread, Banana Bread
Ingredients:
5 cups of blueberries (apple sauce, or mashed bananas, depending on which fruit bread you’re making)
1 cup of oil
5 eggs
5 tsp vanilla
2 cups milk
5 tsp baking soda
2 tsp salt
3 cups white sugar
2 cups brown sugar
7 cups all purpose flour
Directions:
Combined your dry ingredients in one bowl and mix well.
Add your wet ingredients in another bowl and blend together.
Join your dry and wet ingredients together and mix on medium speed.
Fill baking dishes 1/2 full with your fruit bread mixture.
Place filled baking dishes in preheated oven at 350 for 45-minutes to 1-hour.
Oven times may vary.
Freezing Directions:
Let your loaves cool appropriately.
Place in gallon size freezer bags (for 9×13 size pans we cut in 1/2 placing each half in its own freezer bag), removing as much air as possible.
Freeze 2-3 months.
Before use place in refrigerator the night before needed or defrost using your microwaves defrost setting.
Jamerrill's Freezer Fruit Bread Recipe: Blueberry Bread, Apple Sauce Bread, Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 5 cups of blueberries apple sauce, or mashed bananas, depending on which fruit bread you're making
- 1 cup of oil
- 5 eggs
- 5 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups milk
- 5 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp salt
- 3 cups white sugar
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 7 cups all purpose flour
Instructions
- Combined your dry ingredients in one bowl and mix well.
- Add your wet ingredients in another bowl and blend together.
- Join your dry and wet ingredients together and mix on medium speed.
- Fill baking dishes 1/2 full with your fruit bread mixture.
- Place filled baking dishes in preheated oven at 350 for 45-minutes to 1-hour.
- Oven times may vary.
Notes
Freezing Directions
- Let your loaves cool appropriately.
- Place in gallon size freezer bags (for 9x13 size pans we cut in 1/2 placing each half in its own freezer bag), removing as much air as possible.
- Freeze 2-3 months.
- Before use place in refrigerator the night before needed or defrost using your microwaves defrost setting.
LET ME KNOW IF THIS RECIPE WORKS WELL FOR YOU!
Thank you so much for your recipes and the helpful videos. I don’t have a ‘large’ family, but I want to start filling the freezer with meals and breads for times when we’re super busy or just too tired to cook from scratch.
Hey there! I am a huge fan of yours. This is my first time to comment. Can I reduce the amount of white sugar in the fruit bread recipes?
Oh, of course! You brown sugar instead, try it with stevia, do what works for you. I use so much because it goes over many, many, loaves. xoxo
Hi Jamerrill,
I just made 1/4 batch of your blueberry bread, which made an 8×8 pan. I noticed that my mix was very thick. I realized it maybe because I used frozen blueberries. I was wondering if you use fresh or frozen or defrosted berries? Do you mush them up or leave them whole? My bread smells amazing & I can’t wait to have a piece. It seems like a fantastic recipe. Thanks for sharing x
I’ve made it all three ways with fresh, frozen, and defrosted berries. How did yours turn out?
I made it with a combination of shredded apples and carrots, and misread 5tsp of vanilla as 5 TABLESPOONS. The result tastes a lot like cotton candy bread, but still very eatable. Next time I’m reducing the sugar by a cup and curbing my enthusiasm for vanilla, but I will definitely be making it again!
I am just curious. What would be the best way to half this recipe. I unfortunately don’t have a large family and my freezer wouldn’t fit that much. I look forward to making blueberry bread with fresh blueberries I just got. P.s. I love your family and hope to have four children if God blesses me. I have two sons, halfway there! It just took me two years of unexplained infertility to get my second son. Wish me luck with two more.
Can I make this recipe with canned pumpkin for my fruit?
yes!!
Just got half of a recipe of banana bread in the oven in a 9×13 pan hope it turns out
Wonderful! Let me know how you like it. xoxo
It turned out great my fiancee loved it too
You don’t use loaf pans for your fruit bread recipes? You use 9X13???
I don’t personally own any loaf pans so I use what I have. I use my 9×13 and smaller glass baking pans. For actual “loaf” sizes I use my bread machines. 🙂
I can’t wait to try making these! I have a home daycare, and I think the kids will love it. Do you always wait for your bananas to brown before you throw them in the freezer? I never have any brown ones at the end of the week, can you use fresh yellow ones if you freeze them beforehand?
I usually wait for the bananas to at least have a lot of brown spots. Sometimes it can be hard to get bananas to freeze when you use a lot for snacks. Maybe buy a big bunch just for making bread and let those get brown. 🙂
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I’ve made this with bananas and applesauce! This bread is simple, tasty, and most importantly my kiddos love it! I also divided the recipe by 5 to make one 13×9 dish.
Perfect! xoxo
I made the applesauce bread today and my guys LOVED it. They said to say thank you Jamerrill lol. I did slice some apples real thing and sprinkle with cinnamon to throw in there. I just need to get it to the freezer and out of their reach now.
Finally a recipe sized the way I like it. 10 loaves in the oven. House is starting to smell good. This will also be perfect for xmas baking! I’m happy to have found this!
Recipe made 10 mini loaves, baked for 45 mins. Makes a perfect banana bread and I’m excited to try applesauce next!. Thanks for a fantastic recipe
Made the full recipe, but halved it after mixing together and before adding the fruit, so that I could make both banana and also mixed berry breads. I got a large pan (don’t know the size, but larger than a 9×13) of Berry bread and 2 large loaves of Banana bread. Excellent recipe and perfect for using up the leftover fruits!
I am not very good or um practiced at making fruit breads
I was wondering can I cut out lots of sugar and add nuts? To make less sweet and more dense fruit bread?
Oh my these are great. I have made 3 9x5ish loaf pans plus heaps of mini muffins. 2 of them I added chocolate chips to 🙂
I added a few blueberries and raspberries into the mini muffins. Soooo yummy. My little boys love them.
We are a family of 4 but made the big batch and just did a dew loafs and a few things of muffins.
Will definitely re-do this.
I can’t wait to make this. My family isn’t really huge but I got three boys and a husband that eat crazy amounts of food lol. I was wondering on the fruit bread though could I use frozen blueberries or do they have to be fresh?
I usually use frozen, but you could also use fresh 🙂
Thanks so much for all you do!! We dont have a large family so I halved the recipe. I made it with self rising flour and frozen blueberries!