How to Make the Best Gluten-Free, Vegan Banana Bread
This banana bread is easy to make, and you wouldn't even know it's gluten-free OR vegan! It's perfectly moist, flavorful, and can be jazzed up with chocolate chips or your favorite nuts.
Ingredients
- Neutral flavored cooking oil spray, such as canola or coconut
- 2 tbsp flax meal
- 6 tbsp water
- 1 3/4 cups Bob's Red Mill gluten free all purpose flour (Please use this EXACT flour, otherwise you will have a different final outcome!!)
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 3 bananas, VERY ripe
- 1/3 cup almond milk, plain, unsweetened (You can also use cashew or soy milk.)
- 2 tsp raw apple cider vinegar
- 1 1/4 cup coconut sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract, 100% pure
- 1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1 1/2 cups vegan chocolate chips, chopped raw walnuts or pecans
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease a non-stick 11" by 6" bread pan with cooking oil spray.
- In a small bowl, stir together the flax meal and water. Let it rest for 10 minutes, stirring it occasionally to keep it from separating. This creates flax "eggs."
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Set aside.
- In another mixing bowl, mash the bananas into a puree. Then, add in the milk, vinegar, sugar, vanilla extract, melted oil, and the flax egg mixture. Whisk until evenly combined.
- Pour the wet batter into the dry mix and stir until evenly combined and there are NO lumps of flour.
- Add in 1 cup of the chocolate chips and stir until they're evenly distributed.
- Scrape the batter into the greased bread pan and spread it evenly from corner to corner.
- Evenly sprinkle across the other 1/2 cup of chocolate chips.
- Bake the bread on the middle oven rack for 1 hour and 15 minutes, rotating the pan after about an hour.
- Allow the bread to cool completely, gently remove it and cut it into slices!
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