Vegan Chocolate Banana Bread
Today I’m bringing you my recipe for vegan chocolate banana bread. This version happens to be gluten free and refined sugar free. So all guilt aside, let’s jump right in.
Ingredients
Chocolate Banana Bread
- 4 Bananas Very Ripe
- 1 Cup Unsweetened Apple Sauce
- 3 & 1/2 Cup Oat Flour
- 3 Tbsp Coconut Oil
- 1/2 Cup Cocoa Powder
- 2 Tsp Baking Powder
- 2 Tsp Baking Soda
- 1/4 Tsp Salt
- 1/2 Cup Plant Milk I used unsweetened Almond Milk
- 3 Tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1 Tsp Rum Extract
- 1 Tsp Cinnamon
- 3/4 Cup Erythritol
- 3/4 Cup Stevia
Icing
- 1 Can Coconut Cream Cream Only
- 3 Tbsp Lime Juice
- 1/4 Cup Stevia
- 1/4 Cup Erythritol
- 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
Instructions
Chocolate Banana Bread
- First let’s preheat our oven at 400F and on small container or bowl add your plant based milk of choice, followed by some apple cider vinegar. Whisk and set it aside.
- Next, on a large mixing bowl, add your very ripe bananas that you’re going to use a fork to mash until they become creamy. This will be the base for our wet ingredients.
- Then, add some unsweetened apple sauce, the milk and apple cider vinegar mix, the coconut oil, and some rum extract. Give everything a mix. Then add your sweetener of choice, here I’m going for stevia and some erythritol. Adding these two together helps lessen the funny after taste of the zero calorie sweeteners. Set your wet ingredients aside and work on your dry ingredients.
- On a separate bowl add the oat flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Use a whisk to mix everything making sure to break any lump.
- Now we can add the dry ingredients to the wet and use a spatula to mix the batter. Once the batter is well mixed, slightly grease a cake pan. Mine is a 13 inch non-stick loaf pan. And pour in the batter, making sure everything is leveled. Pop it in the oven and let it bake for about an hour and 15 minutes, or until you can stick a knife in and it comes out dry.
- Here is how it looks like when out of the oven. This size is perfect for a large family and it's great as a meal prep. Now it looks good as it is, but we’re going to take it a step further, by adding some icing on top.
Icing
- To make the icing, we’ll add some coconut cream (left in the fridge for at least 4 hours) in a mixing bowl, followed by stevia and erythritol, lime juice, and rum extract, vanilla extract would work really well too.
- Then use a hand mixer to mix everything until the icing become creamy.
- Next spread the icing on the top of the our cake, now make sure your cake has completely cooled down before adding the icing else, the icing will melt completely.
- And our chocolate banana bread is ready. This looks like it should be an indulgence, but it’s not. We get some healthy carbs with the oat flour, bananas and apple sauce, no refined sugar whatsoever, no dairy and very low fat. Really this is just all goodness. Enjoy!
Notes
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Nutrition
Calories: 244kcal
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