Coconut-Lime Banana Bread

I am a sucker for a good Banana Bread...there are a few recipes that will probably be making my cookbook. 

This just happens to be one of them. 

This is a non-traditional banana bread, but delicious none-the-less. It was gone within a few hours.  Literally.

I made a few slight changes to the original recipe. Thank you MADE!

Coconut-Lime Banana Bread

Bread:
2 Cups All-purpose Flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt

1 cup sugar
1/4 cup softened salted butter
2 eggs
1 to 1 1/2 cups smashed bananas (about 3 bananas)
1/4 cup yogurt (vanilla, plain, strawberry, whatever flavor)
3 Tbl applesauce
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup coconut flakes
1 Tbl coconut to sprinkle on top of bread
Glaze:
1/2 cup powdered sugar
Appx 1 1/2 Tbl fresh lime or lemon juice (appx 1 lime; you may substitute store-bought lime or lemon juice if needed)

First, mix the first 3 dry ingredients in the small bowl (the flour, baking soda, and salt) and set them aside.

Mash up the bananas with a fork (like you're making baby food) and set them aside.

Crack two eggs into a large bowl (or into your mixer). Next, add a 1/2 stick of real salted butter.

ADD the SUGAR and beat everything on medium speed for about 1 minute.
Then add the rest of the ingredients.....the bananas,the yogurt (use whatever kind you have in the house. I used vanilla but strawberry or other flavors would also work it will just add a different flavor),the applesauce, the vanilla, the coconut. Mix it up until blended.

Then, add the dry ingredients. Mix it until just moist.

Butter and sugar your bread pan (or use Pam...but it won't work as well as butter and sugar).  If you've never done this before, do this just like you would flour a cake pan before baking.

Pour batter into bread pan. Sprinkle the top of the batter with coconut. Bake at 350 degrees F for approximately 1 hour.

While bread is baking, prepare glaze. Pour lime juice into small bowl.  Add 1/2 C. powdered sugar (more if needed) to lime juice and mix.  Glaze should be slightly runny and pourable.

When bread is done let it cool on a rack for about 5 minutes (but not completely) before removing from the bread pan. Drizzle the glaze over the warm bread.

Enjoy!