Cake is my guilty pleasure, especially ones with chocolate in. Emma Donogue said “If I was made of cake I’d eat myself before somebody else could” which I think could be quite true of myself! I love to feed my sweet tooth and so I love making things like brownies or blondies but I also love loaf cakes like my ginger loaf or a lemon drizzle. I remember my mum making banana bread and me eating it with butter spread on. I tend to try and go for healthy treats these days but that doesn’t mean I don’t have an extra thick slice.
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Choosing your flour
This Banana & Chocolate Bread is lovely as a snack or desert. The recipe is as versatile as you want to make it. I use gluten free oat flour because I try to avoid gluten most of the time for health reasons and I prefer it to buckwheat flour as I find that has a bitter taste. You could substitute the oat flour for a plain gluten free flour or mix half and half with brown rice flour.
Dairy Free Ingredients
I use almond milk in baking but any plant based milk would work here. In this recipe I am using Ombar raw chocolate as it’s my favourite vegan chocolate partly because it tastes amazing but also because it contains live cultures so it’s good for my gut too!
I hope you enjoy making this recipe as much as I do. Let me know in the comments below how you got on.
Ingredients
3 very ripe bananas
220g oat flour
1tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp vanilla powder
25g coconut sugar
1 tbsp cashew butter
1 tbsp maple syrup
3 tbsp almond milk
50g coconut oil
70-100g dark (vegan) chocolate broken into small pieces
Method
Pre-heat the oven to 190 degrees celsius (180 fan), Gas mark 5.
Mash the bananas in a mixing bowl with a fork.
Melt the coconut oil in a small pan. Add to the mashed banana with the maple syrup and cashew butter.
In a large bowl combine the dry ingredients: oat flour, coconut sugar, baking powder, bicarb and vanilla powder.
Add the banana mix to the dry mix and stir or whisk in until combined. Then add in the almond milk and lastly the dark chocolate pieces.
Pour into a lined loaf tin and put in the centre of the oven for 35-45 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the middle of the cake.
Allow to cool in the tin for at least 30 minutes before serving.
Slice and enjoy!
Store in an airtight container or cake tin for up to 5 days.
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Banana & Chocolate Bread
Equipment
- Loaf tin
Ingredients
- 3 Very ripe bananas
- 220 g Oat flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- ½ tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
- 1 tsp Vanilla Powder
- 25 g Coconut sugar
- 50 g Coconut oil
- 1 tbsp Cashew butter
- 1 tbsp Maple syrup
- 3 tbsp Almond milk
- 70-100 g Dark chocolate I use vegan Ombar
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 190 degrees celsius (180 fan), Gas mark 5.
- Mash the bananas in a mixing bowl with a fork.
- Melt the coconut oil in a small pan. Add to the mashed banana with the maple syrup and cashew butter.
- In a large bowl combine the dry ingredients: oat flour, coconut sugar, baking powder, bicarb and vanilla powder.
- Add the banana mix to the dry mix and stir or whisk in until combined. Then add in the almond milk and lastly the dark chocolate pieces.
- Pour into a lined loaf tin and put in the centre of the oven for 35-45 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the middle of the cake.
- Allow to cool in the tin for at least 30 minutes before serving.
- Slice and enjoy!
- Store in an airtight container or cake tin for up to 5 days.
Linking up with #KCACOLS:
Ooh this looks yummy, and it being vegan and gluten free is a great bonus too! xx
Thank you, Hope you enjoy having a go at making it xx
Oh my, this looks divine. I love banana bread.
Thank you, I hope you have a go at making it x
This looks delicious I am going to follow the recipe very soon#kcacols@_karendennis
Thank you, hope you like it xx
Banana bread is a great way to use up any fruit that’s gone a little soft. My boys love anything banana based so this would be a fab cake for them to try. #KCACOLS
Yes definitely, we always seem to have a couple of bananas that have gone past their best. I normally make banana bread or put them in smoothies x
Yummm! The banana and chocolate bread looks amazing!
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Thank you, hope you try making it x
Delicious! I wouldn’t beable to stop myself just having another little slice, just to tidy the edges of course! #KCACOLS
This is exactly what I’m like! x
I’ve not had banana bread for years now! I do love it though. This looks delicious #kcacols
It’s not too tricky to make, hope you give it a try xx
Banana bread is a firm favourite in our house (in fact I’m pretty sure my husband hides bananas until they’re soft just so he can say to me, hey look, we’ve got loads of leftover bananas…) but I’d never thought to add chocolate to it so I’m definitely trying out this recipe soon. #KCACOLS
Lol, I think I would add chocolate to everything if I could!! Hope you enjoy it xx
Decadent … but delicious! #KCACOLS
I haven’t had banana bread for a very long time, Every time I have over ripe bananas, I think I’ll make some, but I never do. I’ll have to bookmard this recipe for the next time I have some. x
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Hope you like it if you try it sometime x
This sounds yum and a cheap recipe to do for the kids X #kcacols
Thank you x
Oh it looks beautiful, I just love banana bread. The dangerous thing is though that I could easily eat the whole thing! I’ve never had chocolate and banana bread before so the next time I am baking with the little ones (often on a Friday afternoon) I will give it a go! #KCACOLS
Thank you! I like adding chocolate to everything! I would eat the whole thing too, have to restrain myself!! Hope you enjoy it x
Now, this would be my husband’s idea of heaven. Not so much mine as I am not a fan of bananas, BUT, as it is gluten free I am definitely going to try it. #kcacols
Aw, hope you like it x
I don’t know if i’ve ever had banana loaf! This one looks lovely!
Thank you, hope you give this recipe a go x
looks great. I can’t remember the last time I had banana bread #KCACOLS
Thank you ?
This looks so lovely. A great way of using up your overripe bananas #KCACOLS
Thank you, hope you give it a try x
Oh man this looks good! Anything which chocolate is good. #kcacols
Thank you! Hope you give the recipe a try x
Yum I will have to give this a ty #KCACOLS
This looks delicious. I love banana bread but I’ve never had it with chocolate before. Definitely one to try! #kcacols
Thank you, hope you like it x
Well that looks and sounds very tasty! But where on earth do you buy coconut sugar? Never heard of it! #KCACOLS
You can get it in Sainsbury’s now, Ocado or at Health food stores x
This looks like the perfect recipe for autumnal days & evenings – yummy! #KCACOLS
Thank you, hope you try it x
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AMAZING!
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