Banana Bread {Vegan}
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 1 loaf
 
This healthy Banana Bread recipe is sweet and moist, but is vegan and refined sugar free, and has become a staple in our home.
Ingredients
  • ⅓ / 80 mL cup unsweetened apple sauce
  • 3 Tbsp / 45 mL cold-pressed olive oil1/3 / 80 mL cup maple syrup or mixed with honey (if not vegan)
  • 2 flax eggs (2 Tbsp / 2 cuillérées à soupe ground flax seed + 6 Tbsp / 6 cuillérées à soupe hot water)
  • 1 cup / 240 mL mashed bananas
  • ¼ cup / 60 mL almond milk
  • 1 tsp / une cuillérée à café vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp / une cuillérée à café baking soda
  • ½ tsp / une moitie cuillérée à café salt
  • ½ tsp / une moitie cuillérée à café ground cinnamon
  • 1¾ cups / 400 mL spelt flour
  • ⅓ cup / 80 mL walnuts, chopped
  • Optional: You can also add hazelnuts or dark chocolate!
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F or 180 degrees C.
  2. In a small bowl, make your flax eggs. Combine the ground flax seed and hot water and whisk for a couple of minutes until the texture becomes like a beaten egg. Let sit for 5 minutes.
  3. In a large bowl, combine apple sauce, olive oil, and maple syrup. Whisk together.
  4. Add the flax eggs and whisk.
  5. Add the mashed banana, milk and vanilla extract. Whisk.
  6. Add the baking soda, salt and cinnamon and then by spoonful, add the spelt flour.
  7. Then the walnuts!
  8. Add to a baking pan that has been greased with coconut oil and bake for 50-60 minutes.
Recipe by Gold&Thyme at https://www.goldandthyme.com/banana-bread-vegan/