This Dairy Free Banana Bread is absolutely delicious and made in just one bowl. Completely vegan and can be made into a gluten free dairy free banana bread.
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In the warmer months of the year, all you want are ice cream and quick meals like pasta salad or sandwiches. No one wants the oven on during those months and for sure no one wants to be standing over the stove cooking hot food for hours on end.
Winter, however, all that changes. Many of us love throwing things into the oven just to heat up the house a little warmer. Comfort foods, soups, and delicious warmed baked goods are the perfect addition to any cold winter day.
Insert: Dairy Free Banana Bread.
It’s the perfect way to start your day on a cold winter morning. Even if it’s not winter, this dairy free banana bread recipe is the perfect accompaniment for any day of the year truly. It’s also a completely vegan banana bread recipe. I may even venture to say it’s the best vegan banana bread recipe.
In addition to being dairy free and vegan, this banana bread recipe is also:
- Egg Free
- Soy Free
- Has a Nut Free Option (including tree nuts)
- Can be made gluten free
Best of all, it’s one of those delicious recipes that you would never even know it’s a healthy banana bread recipe. You won’t miss any of the ingredients that it’s without.
Watch how to make this Dairy Free Banana Bread:
What ingredients do you need to make Dairy Free Banana Bread?
In order to make this a dairy free banana bread recipe, you’re going to want to start by getting everything prepped and ready to go. We always recommend having everything sat out and prepared ahead of time, and that’s just as true with this vegan banana bread recipe.
The ingredients that you need for this dairy free banana bread recipe are:
- bananas
- flour (gluten free if making gluten free dairy free banana bread)
- baking powder
- baking soda
- cinnamon
- nutmeg
- salt
- brown sugar
- coconut oil
- vanilla
- applesauce
- sparkling sugar
- Optional: walnuts (don’t include if making nut free dairy free banana bread)
How do you make Dairy Free Banana Bread?
Believe it or not, this dairy free banana bread is super easy to make. Winning, right? In fact, all you need is just one bowl to make the entire recipe. Out with recipes that you need a bunch of bowls and steps, everything for this vegan banana bread recipe is included easily.
In order to make this recipe, you’ll start by mixing all the wet ingredients together into a bowl. Then, you will sift in the dry ingredients and then stir again. Finally, fold in the walnuts if you are adding. Pour the dairy free banana bread mixture into a greased bread pan and bake.
It’s that simple. Delicious dairy free banana bread!
Can you freeze this Dairy Free Banana Bread?
You can absolutely freeze this dairy free banana bread recipe. We would recommend that you let it cool upon coming out of the oven, then slice the bread into desired size slices. Afterwards, you can place a small piece of parchment of wax paper between each piece and freeze the loaf.
The reason we recommended freezing the dairy free banana bread recipe in slices is because it will make it easier to thaw by being less time consuming. You can remove slices as needed and either place on counter to thaw or place in microwave to thaw more quickly.
Of course, you can freeze this vegan banana bread loaf in one whole loaf, but it will take longer to thaw. If doing it this one, remove and set on counter until it comes to room temperature and the middle is no longer frozen.
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Dairy Free Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 4 ripe bananas
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoon coconut oil, melted*
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened applesauce
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 ½ cups flour (cup for cup gluten free if needed)
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ tsp cinnamon
- ⅛ teaspoon nutmeg
- pinch salt
- ¼ cup Optional: chopped walnut pieces
Optional Topping
- 1 tablespoon sparkling sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
- Oil your bread pan with coconut oil
- In a large bowl, add the peeled bananas and using the back of a fork, mash them well. No large chunks should remain. Try to mash as much as possible.
- To the bananas, add in the brown sugar, melted coconut oil, unsweetened applesauce, and vanilla. Stir together with a silicone spatula.
- Next, sift in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg. Add in the salt.
- Stir again just until combined.
- Gently fold in walnut pieces if you are adding.
- Pour into greased bread pan and tap the bottom of the pan to ensure it’s evenly leveled.
- In a small bowl, combine the sparkling sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle evenly across the top.
- Place in oven for 35-45 minutes. When done, a toothpick inserted when come out clean.
- *The top of the bread should be a deep brown color. If after 45 minutes, your bread needs more time, cover the top with foil and continue cooking in 5 minute intervals until the toothpick comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and let cool for 15 minutes in pan. Then carefully remove and place on a cooling rack until completely cooled.
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Omg this recipe was perfect! I’ve tried many vegan banana bread recipes before, most of them were too stodgy and chewy-not the right texture for bread.
But this one, was just perfect! I used 1 cup whole wheat and ½ cup oat flour, also, I decorated the top with the cross section of half a banana😂, the texture and taste was on point!
My family went bananas after having this banana bread!
Tysm!!!!
haha good pun at the end! So happy to hear everyone enjoyed it. We really appreciate you taking the time to leave a review! Have a great day!
Made this today and our family of 5 ate the whole thing already xD! I was out of cinnamon so i did use the applesauce with cinnamon in it and it was still amazing!
So happy to hear that! Thanks for taking time to leave a review!
This recipe is so easy and delicious that I have made it three times this week!
HAHA no way! We’re so happy to hear you loved the recipe. Thanks so much for taking time to leave a review, we appreciate that a lot. Have a great week!
The bread is tasty, however, I made this with 4 bananas, and I think I should have only used 3. The texture was a little mushy. I did like the sugar and cinnamon topping.
Thanks for your feedback Louann!
Hey I was wondering if oat flour would work with this recipe
Hi Ella! Thank for reaching out. We haven’t personally tried it so we aren’t sure of amounts. What we can say is that oat flour absorbs a lot more liquid and doesn’t bind in the same way as traditional flour because of its lower gluten properties. With that being said, we’d recommend that you likely need to add more liquid and potentially more of the applesauce to help with binding or a flax egg
I made the banana bread today it turns out fantastic!
Thank you for your great work! I will make one of your fantastic cakes everyday…
Thank you so much for taking time to leave a review! We’re so excited you liked the bread and can’t wait to hear what you think about future recipes! Have a great day!
Oh, dear…. I don’t have any applesauce. Is there a substitute?
More mashed bananas 🙂
Decided to use this bread recipe to make muffins. Heated the oven to 350 and cooked for 18 minutes. They were perfect! Got 18 muffins which will be great for grab and go breakfast! Thanks for the yummy recipe!
So happy to hear you enjoyed