Perfectly Moist Vegan Banana Bread
The BEST Vegan Banana Bread! It's perfectly moist and made with staple pantry ingredients.
Ingredients
Vegan "egg"
- 2 tbsp ground flax seed
- 4 tbsp water
Dry Ingredients
- 1¾ cup all purpose flour
- ¾ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- 1½ tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp nutmeg
- ½ tsp kosher salt I use Morton's
Wet Ingredients
- ½ cup cane sugar
- ½ cup melted coconut oil refined, not virgin
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup mashed bananas (about 2 bananas) over-ripe and spotty work best for this recipe
- 1/3 cup water
Optional
- 1 handful chopped walnuts
Instructions
Prep
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Combine the ground flax seeds and water in a small bowl. Mix well and set aside to thicken. Peel and mash the bananas until nearly smooth. Then measure out one cup of mashed bananas and set aside.
Mix the Dry Ingredients
- Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt to a mixing bowl and whisk well to combine. Set aside.
Mix the Wet Ingredients
- Add the sugar and medlted coconut oil to another mixing bowl and whisk for 1 minute. Tip: If the metled coconut oil is hot, let it cool down slightly before adding it to the sugar.
- Next add the now thickened flax "egg" and the vanilla extract. Whisk for 1 more minute until thicker and creamier.Note: don't add the bananas or water just yet 👩🏻🍳
Combine
- Next add half of the dry ingredients to the bowl with the wet ingredients and mix until almost all of the flour is aborbed. Then add the remaining dry ingredients and stir just until combined. The batter will look thick and shaggy at this point. Then alternate adding in the bananas and water. Start by adding in 1/2 cup of the mashed bananas. Mix well and then add half of the water. Finish by mixing in the remaining bananas, and then stir in the remaining water.
Bake
- Spray or lightly grease a 8x4in loaf pan and then add the batter to the pan. Smooth the top and sprinkle on walnuts if desired. Bake for 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean and the loaf is deeply golden brown. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 30 minutes on a wire baking rack.
Enjoy!
- Once cooled, just slice and serve!Hope you enjoy 😊
Notes
Brown, spotty bananas work best for banana bread but if your bananas aren't quite ripe enough yet, you might want to add an extra 1/4 cup of sugar to this recipe to balance the flavor.