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Vegan Gluten free Banana Bread. Grain-free Flourless Carrot Banana Bread. No Gum, no Aquafaba. Soft, Moist and Easy. Vegan Gluten-free Soy-free recipe. Jump to Recipe
What do you do when you want both a banana bread and carrot bread, You make Carrot Banana Bread!
I was playing around with my gluten-free fruit cake recipe for a no grain version banana bread. Too many Bananas can tend to make gummy results with a bit of error easily. Addition of some other fruit for additional moisture helps reduce that and also adds great flavor, moisture and texture to the bread. For with gluten(regular flour) version make my 1 Bowl Banana Apple Bread with shredded carrots and spices of choice.
This bread uses almond flour and coconut as the base. This Carrot Banana Bread is moist and textured with flavors from banana, carrot, spices and vanilla and great to snack on. To make it into a banana cake, add a cashew cinnamon frosting like my carrot cake.
This bread is soft, super moist, delicious and comforting. Let me know if you try it!
More Gluten-free bakes from the blog
- Gluten-free Cinnamon Roll Bread yeast-free.
- Sweet Potato Crumb Cake.
- Gluten-free Brownies
- Sweet Potato Blondies.
- Gluten-free Lemon Donuts
- And many more here
I haven’t tried it without almonds. If you do make it with other nut flour or sunflower seed flour, let me know how it turns out.
Since I discovered how well citric acid does in gluten-free baking I’ve been using it more and more. This bread uses only a bit which can be omitted. It seems to also prolong the shelf life of the baked result as they dont taste stale as quickly.
If you make this bread, let me know how it turned out!
Vegan Gluten free Banana Bread - Grain free Carrot Banana Bread
Ingredients
Dry:
- 3/4 cup + 2 tbsp almond flour
- 1/4 cup potato starch
- 1.25 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp citric acid, (optional)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice or a mix if cinnamon and cardamom
- 1/4 cup shredded coconut, , small shreds
- 1/4 cup coconut flour, , use 1/3 cup rice flour as sub
- 1/4 cup pecans or walnuts
- 2 tbsp or more dried fruit, chopped dates or chocolate chips
- 1 cup grated carrot
Wet:
- 2 ripe bananas, , small to medium size, not too large
- 1/2 cup non dairy milk such as almond milk
- 1 tsp lime juice or lemon juice, , use 2 tsp if omitting citric acid
- 1 tbsp flax seed meal or chia seeds
- 4 tbsp sugar, , less or more depending on ripeness of bananas
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp oil, , use applesauce to make oilfree
Instructions
- Line a loaf pan with parchment. Preheat the oven to 365 degrees F (185 deg C).
- Mix everything under dry except carrots and set aside. Mix well using a whisk. Add carrots and lightly mix.
- Blend everything under wet until smooth, Alternatively, mash the banana really well and mix in the rest of the ingredients until well combined.
- Combine dry and wet and mix in till just about combined into a thick muffin like batter. If the mixture is thin, add a tbsp more coconut flour or potato starch.
- Transfer the thick batter to the lined loaf pan. Even it out using a spatula. Top with additional coconut or walnuts
- Bake for 45 to 50 minutes, test with toothpick from he center, it should come out almost clean.
- Let cool in the pan for 10 mins then remove from the pan carefully and let cool on the counter lightly covered. Slice when completely cool. Store on the counter for the day and refrigerated for upto 4 days.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I have a friend who wants to make this, but can’t have almond flour. Is there another one to try.
I havent tried it with anything other than almond flour unfortunately. Sunflower seed flour might work, but you would have to try a small portion to test.
This was yummy! We added dried apricot as the dried fruit. My husband doesn’t usually like GF, vegan desserts but he liked this one!
thats awesome!
Can I use oat or spelt flour instead of almond?
Oat flour will not hold the bread well enough as a loaf, you can bake it into muffins with oat flour. Spelt should work. Add 3/4 cup flour then add more to make a thick muffin like batter.
Hi Richa,
Thanks a lot . I made and it came out super fluffy and yummy . looking forward to try out some more of your recipe.
Love the recipe. It’s gluten-free and it’s actually full of healthy micronutrients. I like how you separated the wet and the dry ingredients. Very helpful.
Thank you
This is perfect for my Pitta dosha. To make it even easier for me with replace nuts with sunflower seeds and use only cardamom. Thank you so much!
What can you substitute for almond meal if you have allergies?
I havent tried anything other than almond. Some other nut or sunflower seed might work. Maybe make a quarter of the recipe in a small ramekin to check
Im baking for a large vegan pot luck in March and its my birthday too. I have a very large deep baking pan that i can make a 16 x 11 pan very deep. what kind of moist recetangular cake can I bake that is SOS no sugar no cane sugar no saltandgluten free for this special pot luck and what kind of icing also within those criteria too. pearl4pearlman
You can triple the recipe for the pan. If you use ripe bananas and add some chopped dates then the bread is sweet enough. You can add some date caramel (see my salted date caramel pie), as topping. i would make a test recipe before the main event.
Other option i can think of is the Chickpea peanut butter cookie pie. You can use maple syrup and cacao nibs in it and use more nut butter instead of oil. https://fettabbau-trim.today/2017/05/peanut-butter-chickpea-cookie-pie.html%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Or maybe a raw vegan cashew cheesecake that uses dates would be a good option too
Thanks Richa for your wonderful recipes … would you be able to provide metric measurements as well as imperial? This would make them easier for us folks in other parts of the world to use.
Thanks!
They are there on all the recipes now. Just under ingredients, there are 2 options US and metric. Us is selected by default. Click the metric link and values will change to metric measures.
Is there another flour I could sub for the coconut flour or potato starch? How would chickpea flour work?
use a 1/3 cup rice flour for the coconut flour. The recipe needs some starch to help bind, and potato works best. You might be able to use other starches but use a mix of 2 as larger amounts of some starches as arrowroot tend to add gummyness.
Thank you! 🙂
Merci,je vous envoie le résultat,je pense que cette recette sera la bonne.