Fluffy Banana Bread with Cinnamon and Walnuts
“This sh*t is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S” - Gwen Stefani singing about this banana bread.
Banana bread happened, and I didn't want to eat anything else ever again. For real, this is so delicious and even though banana bread hadn't been "a thing" in my life so far, it become just as I started eating my bread. It's soft, fluffy, sweet - but not too sweet - and has a wonderful smell from the cinnamon. The bread is also completely vegan and doesn't consist of any refined sugar. Yay to this bread!
Ripped Brown bananas?
Yes, when making this recipe we want to use as sweet and soft bananas as possible (but which still are edible). What bananas do we use? We use the ripped bananas which possibly are even a little bit brown on the outside. It’s totally fine to use these bananas so don’t get afraid and possibly throw them away. For almost all recipes where we mash the bananas (banana bread, banan pancakes, smoothies etc) we want these bananas. They’re so good, and when taking advantage of these bananas instead of throwing them away, we also decrease the food waste.
What if I’m a nut allergic?
If you are a nut allergic, you skip the walnuts for garnishing and skip the nut flour and just add 1 dl extra flour instead. Simple but yet so delicious!
Gluten Free?
No, this bread is unfortunately not gluten free. I haven’t tested changing the plain wheat flour to gluten free yet, but that’s on my to-do-list. I have to get back to you with this as soon as I have made this into a gluten free version too.
THIS RECIPE IS:
Vegan
Without refined sugar
Egg Free
Dairy Free (and therefore Lactose Free too)
Easy to bake
Delicious to eat
Moist
Soft
Rich
Perfect for both breakfast, snack or dessert
Vegan banana bread
INGREDIENTS:
4 dl plain wheat flour
1 dl hazelnut or walnut flour
1,2 dl stevia or other sweetening (in powder)
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1 ml real vanilla powder
a pinch of salt
2,5 ripped bananas (approx 300-320 g)
1 dl vegetable oil
1 dl oat milk (not a light version)
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
+ 1 banana and walnuts for garnishing if you want to
HOW TO MAKE:
Heat oven to 180 degrees C. Grease a bread loaf pan with vegan butter, coconut oil or oil.
Place all dry ingredients in a bowl and stir together.
Mash the bananas to a pure. Add the banana pure, oil, milk and vinegar to the flour-mixture and combine everything quickly in big takes, but don't over-do it.
Garnish with a banana cut in halves length wise, chopped walnuts and a little bit of extra powdered cinnamon.
Bake in the oven for approx 50-60 minutes. Insert a toothpick and see if it comes out dry. Then the cake is done and let it cool completely before digging in.