Fruit and Vege Bread - Real Recipes from Mums

This Fruit and Vege Bread is a fabulous recipe for morning teas in the school lunchboxes.
It freezes beautifully, you can ice or you can slice through the middle and add some butter. Best of all, it includes some veges and fruit!
If you’re making this for home or for adults, walnuts would go beautifully in this recipe. Enjoy!

Ingredients (makes 16 cake squares)

1 carrot
1/2 cup broccoli or zucchini or even cabbage (purple or green)
3 - 4 ripe bananas
100g Caster Sugar
220g Self Raising Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
2 Eggs
100ml Butter Milk (or use 100ml milk with a squeeze of lemon)
130g Unsalted Butter
1 tsp Vanlilla Extract
1 tsp Mixed Spice or Cinnamon

Method

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius (slightly lower for fan forced).
Grease and line a 20 - 25cm square or round tin. You can make this mixture into muffins perfectly - just use muffin cases instead of the tin.
Place the carrot and broccoli into a food processor and blitz until the vegetables are finely chopped.
Add the bananas and blitz again until the bananas are roughly chopped.
Add the caster sugar and butter and blitz on high for 2 minutes.
Add all other ingredients and blitz on high for 3 - 4 minutes.
Pour the mixture into the tin and make a well in the centre of the mixture to ensure it rises fairly evenly. If using muffin cases, only half fill each case with the batter.
Allow to cool for at least 30 minutes before turning out of the tray.
Cook for 30 - 35 minutes if you are using a square or round tin. Test for readiness by inserting a wooden skewer into the centre of the cake; if it comes out clean, it's ready.
You can ice this cake if you like with a cream cheese icing but I prefer to keep it very simple and just sprinkle with icing sugar.

76 Comments

- - TraceyGail said
  - 24 Jul 2024
    11:42 am
This sounds very different and worth a try.

- - mom486197 said
  - 22 Jul 2024
    11:05 pm
Interesting combination of veggies and fruit. Not sure this is my kind of cake.

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 20 May 2024
    2:24 pm
I can’t fathom cabbage or or broccoli in something like this!

- - kay1987 said
  - 07 Feb 2023
    8:04 pm
I love hiding veggies in things for the kids. Thsnk you for this recipe. Adding to my to do list

- - Frankiielot said
  - 04 Oct 2021
    10:55 pm
I’m interested to see how this tastes!
I’m guessing the banana overpowers the flavours and it tastes like banana bread?
Thank you for sharing. Will need to trick my toddler into thinking it’s banana bread lol.

- - meedee said
  - 11 Sep 2021
    7:38 am
This sounds really yummy. I wonder how it would go with some chopped walnuts included.

- - mom22344 said
  - 01 Feb 2021
    4:54 pm
I am always looking for lunchbox recipes and I am delighted it has fruit and veggie. Adding this to my list of recipes to try!

- - mom460689 said
  - 23 Oct 2020
    10:26 am
Looks great and has serves of your daily fruit and veg. Perfect for the kids.

- - mom322089 said
  - 21 Feb 2020
    5:20 pm
super great idea. hopefully some of the nutrients are still retained.

- - tessie said
  - 10 Oct 2019
    11:53 am
This sounds quite interesting.

- - rachel1970 said
  - 10 Oct 2019
    6:26 am
Sounds interesting, I wonder how strong tasting the veggies would be though!

- - littlehandsofmine said
  - 09 Oct 2019
    7:03 am
I would give it a try, maybe with less veg the first time and see how we go

- - ella12 said
  - 07 Oct 2019
    12:42 pm
Not sure about this one but thanks for sharing.

- - Ellen said
  - 07 Oct 2019
    9:25 am
Nice idea. I would ditch the sugar and maybe add some more fruit like soft blended pear, reduce the milk and replace it with coconut milk and use almond meal, lentil flour or buckwheat flour to make it gluten free and diary free

- - shanika said
  - 05 Oct 2019
    7:13 pm
Very interesting recipe.Hope kids will eat this.

- - mom101628 said
  - 04 Oct 2019
    11:22 pm
Was looking good till bananas were mentioned – they are the most important ingredient to make this cake work and are so high in potassium that many would be unable to eat this cake – certainly I can’t make it for my household. But thanks for sharing anyway.

- - youngoldlady said
  - 04 Oct 2019
    8:52 pm
Sounds interesting, not sure my processor would hold all this mixture. Willing to try, one one to use some of the veggies.

- - rnash02 said
  - 01 Oct 2019
    2:08 pm
I wonder if my kids would eat this

- - mom152736 said
  - 01 Oct 2019
    8:05 am
Very interesting recipe and the pic looks gorgeous. Would definitely try.

- - nadine_hill said
  - 08 Jul 2019
    1:27 pm
Looks amazing! I love the fruit and veg combo and will definitely be trying this recipe!