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One Bowl Vegan Banana Apple Bread. This moist Vegan Banana Bread has ripe banana, shredded apple and nut butter. Add Walnuts or chocolate chips. Vegan Breakfast Recipe.
I am the only person in the house who gets to eat Banana breads. Hubbs is allergic, so I end up making loafs with other fruit puree more often. Our breakfasts most days are a savory affair. We always keep some time in the morning to cook up and eat breakfast with each other. Snacking during the day is another matter. Depending on the day and the meals, I reach out for nuts as the default snack option. Nuts are great if I eat a few, too many and I get pimples and a double chin. A slice of a hearty loaf like this makes for a great snack to last till the next meal and to keep me away from the big bowl of nuts.Â
Make this Easy Vegan Banana Apple Bread filled with bananas, apple, nut butter, no added oil, nuts and chocolate chips. This banana bread has shredded apple in it. Use zucchini to make Banana Zucchini bread. You can add finely chopped apple as well for chunkier pieces. Make it with all spelt or wheat pastry flour or half and half whole grain + unbleached white.Â
This bread needs one bowl. Whisk in the dry ingredients. Blend up the banana with non dairy milk. No banana chunks, no mashing needed. Add in the apple and nuts. Bake, slice and serve. For a gluten-free option see GF Banana Walnut Breakfast Loaf. You can also make the batter into Vegan Banana Apple muffins. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.Â
More Breakfast Loafs and Muffins from the blog.Â
- Banana Walnut Breakfast Loaf. Gluten-free
- Banana Oat Quinoa Quick Bread bar.Â
- Pumpkin Sunshine Loaf.  Gluten-free
- Banana Chocolate Bread.Â
- Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins
Steps:
Whisk all the dry ingredients and spices (pumpkin pie spice or other) in a bowl.
Blend the banana with non diary milk and nut butter and add to the bowl.
Add in the apples, nuts, Vegan Chocolate Chips 
Bake until done. Cool for 10 minutes then remove from the pan and cool completely before slicing.Â
Slice and store on the counter for the day and refrigerated (for upto 4 days) if storing for longer.
Video:
One Bowl Vegan Banana Apple Bread
Ingredients Â
- 1 3/4 cup flour, I use 1 cup spelt/white whole wheat + 3/4 cup unbleached white flour
- 2 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice, or cinnamon or other spices of choice
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3 to 4 Tbsp powdered / fine sugar or sweetener, depends on how ripe the bananas are. Use less or more. I use raw sugar or coconut sugar that has been ground to a fine state in a blender
- 1/2 cup non dairy milk
- 2 large ripe bananas
- 1 Tbsp blackstrap molasses
- 2 Tbsp nut butter or use oil, I use almond butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup grated apple, 1 regular size apple shredded
- A few Tbsps walnuts, pecans, vegan chocolate, dried fruit, chopped dates or other additions
InstructionsÂ
- Preheat the oven to 365 degrees F / 180ºc
- In a bowl whisk all the dry ingredients really well. (flour through sugar, including sugar).
- In a small blender, add banana, non dairy milk, nut butter, molasses, vanilla. Blend until smooth. (You can also mash the banana in a bowl until smooth then mix in the non dairy milk, nut butter and molasses). Add to the bowl. Mix until well combined into a stiff batter. Add grated apple. Add walnuts, other nuts, dates, or chocolate chips. I added 2 tbsp chopped walnuts, 1 Tbsp chopped cashews and 2 Tbsp chocolate chips. fold in well.
- Transfer batter to parchment lines loaf pan. Sprinkle chopped nuts on top (optional).
- Bake for 40 minutes at 365 degrees F / 180ºc.
- Reduce heat to 350 degrees F / 170ºc. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes or until toothpick from the center comes out almost clean.
- Cool for 10 minutes in the pan. Remove from the pan and cool completely before slicing.
Video
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Thank you so much for making such an outstanding recipe (yet again)!!! I baked this for my daughter (in the form of muffins) and she said something to the effect of, kudos to the vegan recipe goddess for making such a moist and tasty treat without eggs. I added that it is oil free too!
yay!! Awesome!
Is there a substitute for molasses Richa? I just don’t have any
you can omit it or us maple syrup
is the almond butter needee to sub the oil for the bread to get crispy and brown or can you make this recipe w/o either of those?
you can make it without either. Add a Tbsp more non dairy milk.
Can I replace the non dairy Milk with water ???? What will be the damage or difference??? Want to make it today
It should work with water as well.
I’m going to make this tomorrow. Looks delicious and so easy to make. I love all your recipes Richa, you make things that are delicious and not overly complex to make. Thanks for all you do!
Thanks!
Can I not put sugar in or would that impact the baking result? What ingredients in here impact the baking result? I assume only the baking soda, powder and salt? Thanks and can’t wait to try! 🙂
you can omit the sugar. The bread will not be as sweet then. Make sure to use very ripe bananas. or add some stevia in the batter if you think the sweetness will not be enough. Or you can add in more dried fruit like chopped dates, raisins etc.
I’ve been looking for a banana bread recipe, and this one is perfect! Can’t wait to try it out!
Awesome!
So sorry that your husband is allergic! He’s missing out XD the banana apple bread sounds delicious–you can really see the apples!
well he gets to eat a lot more pumpkin or other fruit/veggie breads 🙂
love all of your recipes – to make it the best ever any chance you could add the nutritional values ( we can do it ourselves on a site, but its that much easier to look see if its a good fit for ones nutritional needs if the data is right there. just a thought. thanks for your fabulous books and recipes.
Thanks Deborah. Between recipe developing, testing, photographing, editing photos, editing posts, social media and so on I barely have time for anything else. Yes, only one person runs the blog 🙂 . If some plugin developers come up with a good plugin to help us bloggers out by not having to enter the recipe multiple times, then i will surely use that. Till then if you do calculate the recipe nutrition elsewhere, please add the nutrition in the comments.
Hey Richa, what camera and lens do you use? Those pictures make me wanna grab those slices right off the loaf pan 😀 Thanks for sharing the recipes and congrats on the success of your book!! How did you celebrate?
Thank you Sonali! I use Canon 6-D with a macro f/2.8 lens. I have had family visiting through the summer which was celebration enough 🙂
Everything you put on here is amazing!! This is by far my favourite blog. Thank you so much!! :D:D
Thank you Carley!!
www l¡this looks awesome! can i use more banana instead of grated apple? 1 cup?
thankyou!
Use 1 more banana which will be 1/3 to 1/2 cup mashed.
I made this yesterday. It rised beautifully. Taste great and moist inside. It’s the first successful vegan cake I made after several failed attempts. Thanks to your recipe, Richa! I find back my faith in vegan cakes hahaha.
Good to see a plant based vegan! 🙂
Im making this today and i have a doubt.. what is 1 cup in your recipe? 1 cup = ?gms
Im waiting to make this today and will let u know how it turns out :))