Vegan Banana Bread

Overripe bananas, one bowl, and about an hour and a half. Bake it as a loaf or a batch of muffins.

Bowls of mashed banana, brown sugar, flour, salt and baking soda on a marble counter

Ingredients

  • 2 large overripe bananas
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar
  • 1/3 cup white sugar
  • 1/3 cup coconut oil or vegan butter
  • 1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 1/4 cup almond milk or pea milk
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Tools: oven, mixing bowl, fork, hand mixer, measuring cups, loaf pan or muffin tin, toothpick, wire rack

Steps

  1. Step 1

    Preheat

    Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a loaf pan, or line a muffin tin with paper liners.

  2. Step 2

    Mash and whip

    Mash the bananas with a fork. Add both sugars and whip with a hand mixer until frothy, about 2 to 3 minutes.

  3. Step 3

    Add the wet ingredients

    Add the almond milk, oil, and vanilla. Mix until combined.

  4. Flour being folded into banana batter in a glass bowl

    Step 4

    Fold in the dry ingredients

    Add the flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix by hand until just combined. Don't over-mix.

  5. Banana bread batter spread evenly in a loaf pan

    Step 5

    Fill the pan

    Pour the batter into the pan and smooth the top. For muffins, fill each cup about 3/4 full.

  6. A golden baked banana bread in its pan next to a toothpick

    Step 6

    Bake

    Bake a loaf for 50 to 60 minutes, or muffins for 30 to 40 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.

  7. Banana bread cooling on a wire rack

    Step 7

    Cool

    Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then on a wire rack before slicing.

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