Cottage Cheese Banana Bread

Kim Lange · thebakingchocolatess.com · 2026 · 10 slices

Against 708 banana bread recipes

Less sugar than 96% of recipes and less fat than 89%.

How it compares

Against the typical loaf: the median of 708 banana bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.

Less sugar than 96% of recipes: 26% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 78%, about half as much.
Less fat than 89% of recipes: 18% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 45%, about half as much.
Less leavening than 91% of recipes: 2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.5%.
Less banana than 76% of recipes: 119% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 148%.

Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

3 ripe bananas≈ 354 g
2 eggs≈ 100 g
1/2 cup cottage cheese (can blend or whip or use as is)≈ 119 g
1/4 cup canola oil (or unsweetened applesauce)≈ 55 g
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or vanilla bean paste)≈ 4.2 g
1/4 cup agave nectar (or maple syrup, honey, or 1/2 cup granulated sugar)≈ 78 g
2 cups all-purpose flour (or oat flour, or 1 1/2 cups GF flour + 1/2 cup almond flour)≈ 298 g
1/4 teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
1 teaspoon cinnamon≈ 2.6 g

flour 298 gbatter 1017 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 708 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

Nearest by baker's percentages: banana, sugar, fat, egg, dairy, leavening, salt.