This Vegan Banana Bread is flourless, gluten-free, 1 bowl and is so simple, quick and easy to make. Unlike a regular banana bread, this recipe uses creamy vanilla custard for added moisture and flavour and a taste of my childhood in England. The infamous banana custard combo we all loved back in the day!
This Vegan Banana Bread really captures my childhood. In my moments of reminiscing about my life as a kid, one dessert in particular that crops up is banana custard. My dad would always devour custard remains from the previous day straight from the fridge with a sliced banana. He’d usually share it with me, but for quite some time, I wasn’t too fond of the stodgy texture of cold custard. However, as I got older, it became a monthly comfort food staple and even to this day brings me back to those cherished moments with my dad. My Spiced Banana Bread was also inspired by his creations actually – from his infamous chai tea.
And since I’m kind of a cake addict, I wanted to capture the essence of banana custard and childhood in baked goods form so that’s what I’ve done. In fact, the custard is a great replacement for egg for vegan baking, just FYI.
Banana Bread Substitutions
- Oat flour can be subbed with gluten-free flour, wheat flour and other flours. If using almond flour, use a 50/50 combo with another flour such as coconut flour.
- Other ingredients and flavour combos can be used such as dried fruit, chocolate chips, nuts, coconut etc
- Protein powder can also be added to give a protein boost – though weight added in protein powder should be taken from the weight of either the wholewheat or oat flours (or any other type of flour used)
- Rapeseed oil can be replaced with other oils such as olive oil
Banana Bread Flavour Combinations
- Peanut butter and chocolate chip
- Cinnamon and apple
- PBJ
- Coffee and walnut
- Raspberry and white chocolate
- Salted caramel
This Vegan Banana Bread is…
- Moist
- 1 bowl
- Simple
- Easy
- Made with 8 ingredients
- Dairy-free
- Egg-free
- Gluten-free
- Vegan
- Plant-based
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Vegan Banana Bread Recipe
Vegan Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 3 bananas
- 200 g ground oats
- 75 ml rapeseed oil
- 200 ml vegan custard
- 100 g ground almonds
- 50 g chopped walnuts
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp bicarbonate soda
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C.
- Mash 2 of the bananas and beat with the other ingredients (except walnuts and remaining banana) until smooth, sticky batter results.
- Pour into a loaf tin lined with greaseproof paper.
- Slice the last banana in half and place on top of the batter and bake for 30 minutes.
- Allow to cool before serving
Notes
- Oat flour can be subbed with gluten-free flour, wheat flour and other flours. If using almond flour, use a 50/50 combo with another flour such as coconut flour.
- Other ingredients and flavour combos can be used such as dried fruit, chocolate chips, nuts, coconut etc
- Protein powder can also be added to give a protein boost – though weight added in protein powder should be taken from the weight of either the wholewheat or oat flours (or any other type of flour used)
- Rapeseed oil can be replaced with other oils such as olive oil
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