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Best Healthy Banana Bread (Vegan)

This vegan banana bread is made with wholesome ingredients like whole wheat flour, almond butter, maple syrup, and lots of bananas!
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Prep Time:15 minutes
Cook Time:1 hour
Total Time:2 hours
Servings: 8 slices

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cups (360-380g) mashed banana (about 3-4 medium bananas)
  • 3 tbsp maple syrup*
  • 5 tbsp (75g) almond butter* or other nut/seed butter
  • 2 tsp apple cider vinegar*
  • ¼ cup (60 ml) soy milk
  • 1 tsp almond extract* or vanilla extract
  • 1 ½ cups + 4 tsp (190g) whole wheat flour
  • ¾ tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp cinnamon optional
  • ¼ tsp nutmeg optional
  • pinch of salt
  • ¾ cup chopped walnuts*, chocolate chips, or raisins optional

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease or line a loaf pan with parchment paper and set aside.
  • In a large bowl, mix together mashed bananas, maple syrup, almond butter, vinegar, milk, and almond extract.
  • In a separate bowl, whisk flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.
  • Add flour mixture into the banana mixture, and use a rubber spatula to gently fold together. Mix until ingredients are almost incorporated (some dry flour pockets are OK at this point), add walnuts, and gently fold a couple more times to evenly distribute the walnuts. At this point no flour streaks should remain. Be sure to scrape down the sides and the bottom of the bowl for dry flour.
  • Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan. Bake for 60-90 minutes1, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean. After 30 minutes, keep an eye on the bread to make sure it's not browning too quickly on top. If it looks like the top is starting to burn, tent with foil.
  • Let the bread cool for about 10 minutes in the pan, then transfer to a cooling rack. Carefully remove the parchment paper and cool completely.

Notes

1) For a 9" loaf pan, it takes about 60 minutes in my oven. For an 8" loaf pan, it takes 75-90 minutes in my oven.