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Vegan Banana Bread

  • Prep Time: 15 mins
  • Cooking Time: 60-70 mins
  • Serves: 6-8 generous slices
  • Difficulty: Easy
Don’t let your overripe bananas go to waste – make a simple and tasty vegan banana bread instead!
Vegan Banana Bread

Ingredients

Is it a bread or is it a cake? Who cares! Banana bread is darn tasty and given that it saves you from throwing out bananas that are past their best, it’s also environmentally sound too. Although some banana bread recipes out there include butter or even eggs, there is really no reason you can’t make a 100% vegan version that is just as tasty.

And, not only is it tasty, it is remarkably simple too and it’s a great recipe to make with the kids to get them into baking and to show them – and anyone else who samples the end product – that vegan cakes (or bread!) can be just as tasty as their non-vegan counterparts.

Vegan Banana Bread Ingredients
  • 4-5 medium overripe bananas (black patches on the skin are fine, but don’t wait so long that the fruit gets mouldy!)
  • 100ml sunflower oil
  • 150g soft brown sugar
  • 300g self-raising flour*
  • 1 tsp baking powder*
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp mixed spice
  • Vegan butter/margarine for greasing tin
  • 50g chopped walnuts**
  • 50g dried fruit**

Ingredient Notes

*Alternatively, use plain flour and 3 tsp of baking powder

**Optional ingredients

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 190C (170C fan) then peel and mash the bananas with a fork and combine with the sunflower oil and brown sugar
  2. Sieve in the flour, add the baking powder, cinnamon and mixed spice (as well as nuts/dried fruit if you are using them) and mix until everything is combined into a thick paste
  3. Grease a standard size loaf tin (900g/2lb) and line it with baking paper/parchment
  4. Pour in the mixture and bake in the oven for 20-30 minutes
  5. Check it isn’t browning too much and put a layer of foil over it if it is, then bake for a further 30 mins and check to ensure it has risen
  6. Allow the cake/bread to cool (around 8-10 minutes) and then turn it out onto a wire rack to cool further
  7. Once at room temperature, sprinkle with icing sugar or drizzle with a little agave nectar or maple syrup, slice and serve

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