Basketball practice starts today! For the next four months my life will revolve around shooting, rebounding, playing defense (and team dinners:). I’ll admit, it has been weird these past few weeks to not have a sports practice after school! Basketball is a totally different mindset (and training) than cross country but I’m ready to ball. 🙂
So this one bowl, vegan banana bread! I am in looove. Bananas just went $.10 a pound at the store so you bet I loaded up so I can make this again! I’ve been really into vegan baking/cooking lately (perfect for Meatless Monday!) because if you can veganize something, then why not? It’s definitely a goal of mine to live on a plant-based diet but I don’t think I can give up Grandma’s Lasagna just so I can have a “vegan” title. This bread, however, is just as good as your tradition oil/eggs/sugared up banana bread!
Ripe bananas are bæ. Does anyone even understand what that means? Actually, I do. And I kind of secretly love it. Just like I secretly love “I can’t even” and the hippie lifestyle (not the illegal stuff, obvs… just the whole being free and yourself and chill and not caring about the world but caring about it in a totally different way).
Ripe bananas act as a binder in place of the eggs, they provide natural sugar so you don’t need to add as much of that processed stuff, and they are just plain awesome. I love banana flavored anything. Remember the yellow laffy-taffy’s? That’s the only flavor I would eat and everyone thought they were so gross.
Banana bread is one of my all time favorite foods, right up there with nut butter and pizza. So if you want to make something for me, make banana bread. But actually don’t because I’ll eat the whole thing and be mad at you that I did that. But if you’re willing to take that risk…
- 3 ripe bananas
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 flax egg (1 tbsp flax meal + 2.5 tbsp water)
- 3 tbsp sunflower oil
- 1/4 cup cane sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 3 tbsp maple syrup
- 3.5 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp sea salt
- 3/4 tsp cinnamon
- 3/4 cup almond milk
- 3/4 cup almond flour
- 1 cup white whole wheat flour
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- 1/2 cup vegan dark chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350F. Make the flax egg by combining the water and ground flax in a small bowl and mixing together. In a blender, add the oats and blend until about half is oat flour and half is oat pieces. Grease and flour a bread pan.
- In a large bowl, add the bananas. Mash them until there are no lumps, then add the ingredients all the way up to the almond milk.
- Add in the almond flour, white whole wheat flour, and oats. Stir to evenly distribute. Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Bake at 350F for about an hour or until a toothpick comes out clean. Wait for it to cool until you slice it!
Leigha, i admire you! From one sport to the next huh! I am sure you will rock basketball as much as you rocked cross country. Unfortunately, I was a one trick pony, just cross country for me! If you want to come to Kentucky, Steve would love you on his team, and we could make recipes together too…..just an idea 😛
This sounds yummmyyy! One bowl recipes are so much easier than most, and please add this to meatless monday! I am sure others will love it too 🙂
Tina, I would be so happy to visit you in Kentucky 🙂 and maybe next time you’re in Michigan you should head up to the UP!!
Thanks! Love your recipe today!!
Yum! We love banana bread around here. I’ve never made it without eggs but looks great. Thanks for linking up with Tina and I today hope you will check out our recipes too!
Of course!
YUMMMM. This looks amazing! I’ve been putting bananas in errethang. Love the photos too!
Thanks, Faith 🙂 I want to try your banana pancakes so bad!
Lovely lovely beautiful bread!
can I replace cane sugar with regular sugar? 🙂
Yep! 🙂
great! 🙂 love banana bread and this seems to be a lot healthier than regular ones thanks! I play basketball to its my second love after running 😀 xx
Very cool!
I always wanted to play basketball, buuuuut my severe lack of hand-eye coordination strongly disagreed. 😉 I’ll stick with running, thanks! Have so much fun, though! Can’t wait to hear about the season. 🙂
And on December. 4 you will hear about how gosh darn delicious this bread was and how I require an intervention.
Haha! Thanks Emma 🙂
Stopping by from the Meatless Monday Link Up – there really isn’t anything better in the fall than banana bread, and this recipe looks delicious!
Agreed! Thanks, Nicole!
It’s awesome that you play basketball and run cross country. I can run, but I can not do sports that involve significant coordination, so no basketball for me! I love banana bread so much, and my Grandma makes it all the time. Maybe I’ll have to try this recipe on my own. People think that the banana Laffy-Taffies are gross?!? I love those, and I got a lot of them while I was trick or treating, so I’ve been eating some over the past couple of days 🙂 I love everything banana as well.
Thank you! You should totally try this!! One bowl.. how could it be easier? But yeah! Everyone always gave me their yellow ones because they didn’t like them 🙂
Love banana bread! Never made a vegan version before though.. definitely need to try your recipe, it looks so moist and delicious.
Let me know if you do! It’s so tasty 🙂
Ahaha, I have no idea what bæ means in this context, but in Danish “bæ” is “crap”, so I totally misunderstood that sentence 😀
Well, this certainly doesn’t look like crap – it looks absolutely wonderful
And I love your way of thinking – why not make something vegan when you can?
Looks amazing!
Are you serious?!?! That’s so funny, haha! Bae is something you say when you like something or someone, so definitely not crap. I can’t believe that, lol!
OMG looks so good I’m drooling! Go check out my first/new post!
I love it Hannah! You are amazing!
“Not the illegal stuff, obvs…” hahahah
Making this bread asap! Yum <3
lololol 😉 happy weekend, love!
Love adding chocolate chips to banana bread! And only one bowl–yes please!
One bowl recipes are the BEST!
I’ve tried pinning a V for Vegan onto myself, as well, but I currently feel like it inhibits too much of things that I want to experience at this point in my life, like being able to go to someone’s house and sample their mom’s famous cheesy potatoes instead nibbling at a few lettuce leafs while staring in sadness. But I would never feel the need for dishes with animal products if all vegan recipes were like this one! Holy moly this banana bread looks b-e-a-utiful, Leigha! Thank you for sharing this delicious-looking recipe; I hope to try it out soon:-)
Exactly! I always use my grandma’s lasagna for example – I’m not going to turn down a slice (or two!) of that just so I can keep my title! Thank you, lovely!
This looks Yum! I have been looking for an eggless recipe for a while..and i love baking with bananas..they have that unique after flavor that is so rich and…let’s say its something else! thanks for sharing 🙂
Thank you! Bananas are my favorite 🙂