Easy Vegan Banana Bread Recipe

4 bananas. One bowl. No eggs. No dairy. Vegan-friendly. Let’s make the house smell of freshly baked vegan banana bread!

You may know from my previous banana bread recipes that I’m a bit of a banana bread lover:

• The Best Banana Bread
• Healthy Roasted Peanut Banana Bread
• Healthy Caramel Nut Banana Bread
• Healthy Pecan Carrot Cake Banana Bread

However, seeing as I now have a few vegan friends lurking behind the screens, I thought I’d give a vegan banana bread recipe a go that doesn’t require a million and one ingredients. After a few trial and errors, we got there… eventually.

Of course, the heart of this recipe comes from four overripe bananas. Then follows the coconut sugar which gives this vegan banana bread a delicious mouth-watering caramel flavour. And finally, the recipe is finalised with the last essential ingredients: coconut oil (just a lil’), almond milk, wholemeal flour and cinnamon. See, I told you this was a limited-ingredients kinda recipe.

I went ahead with my favourite flour for banana bread: wholemeal. However, feel free to bake yours with buckwheat, gluten-free or regular flour.

Now, when it comes to baking banana bread, I always find different ovens vary with time. I’d say anything from 50-60 minutes in the oven is the answer. I went with 55 minutes for this baby and it was just right. Yum.

If you’re after a banana bread that is:

• Crisp and sweet on the outside
• Moist and soft on the inside
• Vegan friendly
• Stupidly easy to make
• Mouth-watering good
• Slightly caramel-like
• Not too heavy
• And irresistibly delicious

Then believe me, you’re going to love this recipe!

Easy Vegan Banana Bread Recipe

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Serves: 10 slices Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 55 minutes 55 minutes

Nutrition facts: 200 calories 20 grams fat

Rating: 5.0/5

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Ingredients

• 180g self-raising wholemeal flour
• 120g coconut sugar
• 3 1/2 mashed medium overripe bananas
• 90ml almond milk (I used Blue Diamond Original Almond Breeze)
• 50ml melted coconut oil
• 1 tbsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 banana + agave syrup/maple for coating

Instructions

Begin by preheating your oven to gas mark 4.

In a bowl, mix together the mashed bananas, sugar, almond milk and coconut oil.

Once mixed, slowly add the flour to the bowl - stirring as you go. Once added, add the cinnamon and baking powder. Mix again but do not overmix. 

Line a bread tin with parchment paper and pour in your banana bread mixture. Make sure the top is even before cutting a banana in half and placing on top of the mixture. Do not push the banana down. Place in the middle of the oven to bake for 50-60 minutes. Keep an eye on the bread once it hits the 50-minute mark.

Once cooked (a knife should come out almost clean), remove from the oven and coat with a thin layer of syrup. Leave to cool completely before cutting (otherwise it will crumble).