Transform those overripe, spotty bananas into this delicious Vegan Banana Bread that is loaded with chocolate chips and chopped nuts! It's perfectly moist, sweet, flavourful, and quick and easy to make all in one bowl!
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Friends, my obsession with banana bread continues. Meet my new Vegan Chocolate and Nut Banana Bread. I made it and I loved it and now I am sharing it with you.
And guess what? It is a super-duper delicious, flavourful, and moist vegan banana bread, and it is about to become your new favourite sliceable snack.
This recipe is an adaptation of my Spelt Banana Bread, but we are taking it up a notch with bananas in all their spotty, overripe glory, vegan chocolate chips, and lots of chopped nuts (or not nuts if they aren't your thing - you can easily omit them).
Is it better than my Vegan Chocolate Banana Bread, Vegan Chocolate Coconut Banana Bread, or Tahini Banana Bread? I feel like a traitor for even thinking that. I think it might be, but I'm finding it hard to commit, and Mr AVV isn't able to pick a winner either. Can we call it a tie?
All that matters is that the best vegan banana bread should be moist, hearty, satisfying, perfectly sweet, and studded with nuts and chocolate chips, and I think we can safely say we have all boxes checked.
Mel x
Ingredients
Here is what you need at a glance, along with some important ingredient notes & substitution ideas:
- Overripe bananas - The spottier the better. Don't use underripe bananas.
- Flour - all-purpose, spelt, whole wheat, or a good quality all-purpose gluten-free flour is all fine.
- Sugar - Any kind you like in this recipe. White, cane, brown, and coconut are all fine.
- Oil - Any neutral oil or use nut butter to keep the recipe oil-free.
- molasses - Regular or blackstrap. It's my banana bread secret weapon!
Serving Suggestions
Vegan Banana bread is great eaten just as it is, especially in lunch boxes or when snacking on the go, but you can also spread it with vegan butter, vegan cream cheese, peanut butter, almond butter, cashew butter, or chocolate spread. For dessert try warming a slice and topping it with caramelized bananas and a dollop of ice cream!
Recipe
Vegan Chocolate & Nut Banana Bread
Author:WATCH HOW TO MAKE IT
Ingredients
- 3 medium 7 to 8 inch long bananas , (weighing approx 375 grams or 13 oz in total when peeled). Plus some extra slices for the top if you can.
- ¼ cup (60 ml) liquid oil, or ¼ cup (4 tablespoons) of natural nut/seed butter
- ½ cup (100 grams) sugar , white, cane, brown or coconut
- 1 tablespoon molasses , blackstrap or regular
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 cup (250 grams) all-purpose flour or spelt flour , (plain flour in the UK). Wholewheat flour or 1 to 1 Gluten-Free all purpose flour work well too
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ cup (85 grams) chocolate chips , plus a few more for sprinkling
- ½ cup (60 grams) chopped walnuts or pecans , (omit to make nut-free), plus a few more for sprinkling
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INSTRUCTIONS
- Preheat oven to 350°F and grease an 8.5 x 4.5 inch or 9 x 5 inch loaf pan. Line the pan with a strip of parchment paper along the bottom, making sure it comes up over the ends so you can use it as a handle to lift the loaf out once cooked.
- Peel the bananas then mash them really well with a fork until they are a puree.
- Add the coconut oil (or nut butter), sugar, black strap molasses and salt and beat well until smooth.
- Add the flour and baking powder and gently fold it all together. Do not over mix. You want it so that it is just combined and so that you cannot see any dry flour throughout the mixture. When almost mixed up, add the chocolate chips and nuts and stir gently to combine.
- Pour into your prepared pan and sprinkle over a few more chocolate chips or nuts, or both.
- Bake in oven for around 50 minutes or until a tooth pick or skewer comes out clean when inserted through the middle. Lift out of pan, remove parchment paper and cool on a cooling rack.
NOTES
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Lizzette says
I made this recipe today for the first time and I have to say this is gonna be my fave banana bread recipe from now on!! So easy to make and the final product is so amazingly good!!!