Want to make someone’s day? Bake them some banana bread! Just yesterday, I said, “I’m going to bake some banana bread, ” and watched a full-grown man’s eyes light up like a kid’s on Christmas morning.
Banana bread is one of those classic, all-American comfort food recipes that fills the whole house with warmth and makes everything better. Banana bread is
I perfected this banana bread recipe for my cookbook and wanted to share with you here. This recipe has all the hallmarks of classic banana bread—it’s fluffy, moist, infused with sweet banana flavor, and beloved by toddlers and adults alike.
Healthy No Added Sugar Banana Bread
As you can see, my homemade banana bread has plenty of redeeming qualities, chief being that it won’t send your blood sugar levels for a loop. You can keep them all to yourself, though. No one will be able to tell that this is healthy banana bread!
This recipe is flexible! Any of the following flours will work well. I love to use white whole wheat flour and whole wheat pastry flour—they offer all the whole wheat nutrients, without the characteristically nutty flavor.
Want to make your banana bread with almond flour? You sure can, but it’s not a simple substitute, so follow my almond flour-based banana bread recipe instead.
Easy Dairy Free Banana Bread
For best results, it’s important to measure your flour properly. Here’s how to measure flour in cups using the “spoon and swoop” method:
Now that I’ve finally perfected this basic banana bread, feel free to change up this recipe and make it your own. Toss some chopped pecans or walnuts into the batter! Same goes for chocolate chips. You could also add raisins, chopped dried fruit or slices of bananas.
Following a special diet? With a couple of minor tweaks, you can make this bread vegan (so dairy free and egg free, too) or gluten free. Check the recipe notes for details.
The Best Banana Bread Recipe (with Video)
With this healthy banana bread recipe, you’re only a few simple ingredients away from the best banana bread ever! It’s made with whole wheat flour and naturally sweetened with honey or maple syrup. You can easily make this banana bread vegan or gluten free—check the recipe notes for details. Recipe yields 1 loaf (about 10 slices).
Storage suggestions: This bread is moist, so it will keep for just two or three days at room temperature. Store it in the refrigerator for five to seven days, or in the freezer for up to three months or so. I like to slice the bread before freezing and defrost individual slices, either by letting them rest at room temperature or lightly toasting them.
*Oil options: I love coconut oil here. I used unrefined coconut oil and can hardly taste it in the final product. Olive oil might lend an herbal note to the muffins, if you’re into that (I tested with California Olive Ranch’s “Everyday” variety and couldn’t even taste it). Vegetable oil has a neutral flavor, but the average vegetable/canola oil is highly processed, so I recommend using cold-pressed sunflower oil or grapeseed oil if possible.
Healthy Banana Bread Recipe
**Flour alternatives: In place of the whole wheat flour, you can use an equal amount of all purpose flour, whole wheat pastry flour, spelt flour, or gluten-free all-purpose flour blend. Or, substitute 2 ½ cups oat flour.
Make it vegan: Use maple syrup instead of honey, replace the eggs with flax eggs and choose non-dairy milk (I used almond milk) or water.
Make it lower in fat: I would argue that this bread contains a healthy amount of fat, but you can replace the oil with applesauce if you’re following a low-fat diet.
Classic Banana Bread Recipe (no Mixer Needed)
If you love this recipe: You will also love my banana muffins, banana cake with cream cheese frosting, healthy pumpkin bread and pumpkin muffins. Here are all of my baked goods and banana recipes.
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Simply Perfect 2 Banana Banana Bread
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© Cookie and Kate 2010 - 2023. All rights reserved. Cookie and Kate is a registered trademark of Cookie and Kate LLC.Hello and welcome to the BEST banana bread recipe I’ve ever made – and it just so happens to be dairy-free banana bread!
I am super thankful that I’ve been having these weird banana cravings lately and thus overbought bananas. And then several of the bananas went overripe and I was like, well obviously we need banana bread in this house. Stat.
Ingredient Banana Bread (no Butter Or Oil!)
I didn’t want any fancy schmancy banana bread. Just the good ol’ classic stuff, no walnuts thank you (blech). A moist, sweet, sturdy-yet-tender simple banana bread loaf that fills the house with that come-hither scent.
Okay, so by now I’ve talked about my dairy-free diet a looooot. And so we all know that dairy is no bueno for me. Many banana bread recipes call for butter and/or sour cream, but for dairy-free me, that wasn’t going to work.
So I wanted to come up with a classic banana bread recipe that nixed the dairy yet didn’t miss any of the flavor that dairy adds to the equation.
Oatmeal Banana Bread
I started with this highly rated recipe on food.com and made a few tweaks. But just a handful! Because I wanted to keep this nice and simple.
This Easy Dairy-Free Banana Bread recipe comes together super quickly in one bowl. Basically, you mash your bananas (four of them for max banana goodness), then add in the sugars (half granulated sugar and then half dark brown sugar for a bit of flavah) and the oil. Beat in the eggs then stir in the vanilla (a must!). Then, just sift your dry ingredients over the top. Flour, baking soda, salt, and 2 glorious teaspoons of cinnamon. Aaaaand stir!
This perfect banana loaf takes a bit of time to cook – in my 8.5″ x 5″ baking pan it takes almost a full hour. WORTH IT. Inhale the luscious scent that wafts, cartoon-like, about your house and out your windows, luring your neighbors.
Vegan Banana Bread (easy + Healthy)
Other delicious dairy-free quick bread recipes These Super-Moist Vegan Banana Bread Muffins are absent dairy AND eggs but NOT absent moisture and flavor! Love these. In the fall, nothing hits the spot like this dairy-free Spiced Pumpkin Gingerbread. So moist and full of flavor! This pumpkin bread recipe is dairy-free AND gluten-free! This Zucchini Bread is such a unique twist on a classic, with olive oil, lemon, and cardamom. A fave! If you try this recipe, please leave a rating! And, if you find it share-worthy – which I hope you do – please share. Tag # on Instagram, Facebook, or Pinterest, and don’t forget to check out my other recipes!
Calories: 306 kcal , Carbohydrates: 46 g , Protein: 4 g , Fat: 12 g , Saturated Fat: 1 g , Cholesterol: 33 mg , Sodium: 359 mg , Potassium: 216 mg , Fiber: 2 g , Sugar: 27 g , Vitamin A: 78 IU , Vitamin C: 4 mg , Calcium: 23 mg , Iron: 1 mg
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Moist & Fluffy Vegan Banana Bread Recipe (gluten Free!)
Karen is a vegetarian home cook living among carnivores. She loves creating irresistible and flexible recipes that help multi-vore families like hers keep the peace - deliciously.
Get Turkey Schmurkey - a FREE eCookbook with our very favorite plant-based holiday recipes - by subscribing to the Kitchen Treaty email list.Enjoy a butter-free take on the traditional classic quick bread with this dairy free banana bread recipe. This loaf is packed with banana flavor and has the perfect level of sweetness. It’s got a tender fluffy crumb, yet is still somehow rich at the same time. Bake this up, sit down with a cup of coffee, and relish in a few (hopefully peaceful) minutes of snacking.
Banana bread is one of the easiest recipes to modify for a dairy free diet. There’s only one ingredient usually used that contains dairy – and that’s butter. For most recipes, all you need to do is swap out the butter for an equivalent amount of oil (vegetable oil, coconut oil, etc) or dairy free butter (like Earth Balance).
The Best Buttermilk Banana Bread
As long as there are no other add-ins like milk or chocolate, that’s really the only swap you need to make, and the majority of recipes should turn out just fine. (And if it does have milk, you can substitute oat milk, and if it has chocolate, use dairy free chocolate chips).
So if you have a family favorite, feel free to experiment this way by using your own recipe and making these easy substitutions.
Here are the ingredients you’ll need to make our version. I’m betting you have all of this – or at least most of it – already in your kitchen right now:
Best Ever Banana Bread Recipe
You’ll start by mashing your bananas and combining
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