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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.
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This recipe popped up on my FB feed first thing Christmas morning and it felt like the perfect thing to have baking in the oven while the kids waited for breakfast. Came out perfectly!
I used spelt and white combo, and this was my first time trying almond butter in lieu of oil, plus never considered adding apple in a quickbread. Quick mix in the Vitamix, topped with crushed holiday candied pecans and everybody enjoyed! Thank you,
awesome!
I made it last friday and it is sooo good! I left out the molasse because I didn’t have any at home, but it worked anyway. Even my (absolutely non-vegan) grandma wanted to have the recipe 😄💪 thank you!
Hey Richa , this recipie sound really good .. will bake and let u know how it turned out.
You are my go to for all vegan recipes ..
Thankyou for your amazing work
Love Rehha
Oh, I see. Thanks much
Can the unbleached white flour be replaced with brown rice flour or natural almond flour?
Try this one https://fettabbau-trim.today/2018/01/gluten-free-banana-bread-flourless-carrot-banana-bread.html%3C/a%3E . You can use apple instead of carrot.
Direct subs of gluten-free flours doesnt usually work with a 1 on 1 sub and the recipes needs many changes. There is usually a gluten-free version or similar version ont he blog that is already adjusted for gluten-free baking, so use that recipe.
Thanks for responding. I wasn’t trying for gluten free. Just trying to avoid white flour. Should have phrased the question differently
the flours you suggested are both gluten-free, so they work very differently. You can use a whole grain gluten flour like wheat or spelt as a direct sub in this recipe.
Hi Richa,
I love this recipe , but my bread came out gooey. I did everythin right . I read all the reviews before and I just don’t get it . I cooked it for 40 min. 365F and then 20 min. on 350F
I used 2tbsp of oil like you said on the recipe.
I used 1/2 cup of SO Delicius coconut milk Beverage.
1 1/2 cup of organic all purpose flour and 1/4 cup almond flour. I have and digital electric oven. I followed all your instrutions.
Hmm, Is it gooey in the middle and the bottom or gooey overall? If it is gooey mostly at the bottom and middles , then Depending on the loaf pan it might have needed additional baking time. Always check with a toothpick from the center. if it comes out sticky, continue to bake for another 15 mins and then check.
This is my absolute favourite banana bread recipe! I’ve made it many times. Sometimes I use grated carrot instead of apple and add in walnuts, pecan and raisins to make a ehalthy banana carrot cake! I use very ripe bananas and add a few derops of stevia so I don’t need to use the sugar. But even without stevia it tastes great 🙂
Awesome idea to use carrots!
Love this idea!
can you give some suggestions on adjusting the recipe for high altitude? The bread did not rise and the baking soda taste was very pronounced. Usually, I have trouble with some recipes because I am at altitude but after looking through other comments I’m not sure what the problem was
hmm, did the bread rise initially and then fall? Maybe bake it longer.
There is only 1/4 tsp baking soda in the recipe, so that shouldnt add any flavor.
Have just made this and it is amazing, thank you for a great recipe. I actually didn’t add any sugar only the 1 tbsp molasses, I waited to taste the mix before adding any sugar and my bananas must have been sweet enough, so even more impressed that there isn’t much added sugar.
Awesome! Yes, the bread doesnt really need added sugar with nicely ripe bananas and if you adding some dried fruit or chocolate. Glad it turned out good!
Could I use Buckwheat flour instead of the spelt flour?
buckwheat is gluten-free and it would need help from some starches and gums to make the loaf. you an try 3/4 cup buckwheat, 1/2 cup almond flour and 1/4 cup starch mixed in and add a cup of the nixture and fold in, then add more to get a thick muffin life batter.