Almond Butter Banana Bread (2024)

This Almond Butter Banana Bread is a healthy, dairy-free, egg-free, and refined sugar-free banana bread made with almond butter.

It has the most delicious, soft, and fluffy crumb with a delicious banana almond flavor and 4 grams of protein per slice.

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We love banana bread recipes even more with a healthy twist! Just try my 3-Ingredient Banana Bread, Spelt Banana Bread, or Oatmeal Banana Bread. The almond butter addition to your banana bread brings:

• Healthy fats
• Protein
• Fiber
• Earthy nutty flavor

How To Make Almond Butter Banana Bread

All you need to make banana bread with almond butter are simple pantry ingredients.

You don’t need eggs or dairy. It’s a naturally vegan banana bread recipe full of banana and almond flavor.

Ingredients and Substitutions

All you need to make your banana bread are:

• Ripe Bananas – the riper, the sweeter the bread will be. You can use yellow bananas too, but increase the amount of sweetener by 1/4 cup, or the bread won’t be sweet enough.
• Smooth Almond Butter – make sure you stir well the nut butter in the jar to combine the oil staying on top with the nut butter. Then, measure the amount called by the recipe.
• Crystal Sweetener of Choice – we used coconut sugar, but any sugar works as soon as it’s not a liquid sweetener. I noticed that liquid sweeteners in egg-free baking make the crumbs dense and gummy, so I don’t recommend that.
• Almond Milk or Olive oil or melted coconut oil if not oil free
• Vanilla Extract
• All-Purpose Flour, white spelt flour, or white wholewheat flour. The recipe won’t work with almond flour or coconut flour. You may have success with a gluten-free flour blend containing gums, with a different texture, of course.
• Baking Powder
• Baking Soda
• Ground Cinnamon

Mashing The Bananas

First, peel and mash the bananas until smooth and almost no lumps shows.

Measure the amount required by the recipe using measuring cups and place in a large mixing bowl.

It matters to measure the amount of mashed banana in this egg-free banana bread recipe.

In fact, bananas act as a binder since there are no eggs in the recipe. So make sure you add a good amount to avoid dry banana bread.

Almond Butter Bread Batter

In the bowl with mashed bananas, stir in melted coconut oil, almond butter, vanilla extract, and coconut sugar. Set aside.

In another bowl, whisk all the remaining dry ingredients: flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.

Stir in the dry ingredients onto the wet ingredients.

Stir until all the ingredients are well combined, and a thick banana bread batter forms.

Don’t over-stir the batter or the bread come up dense.

Finally, if you feel like it, stir in chocolate chips or walnuts.

Baking

Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line a 9-inch x 5-inch loaf pan with parchment paper.

Spray some olive oil on the paper to prevent the banana bread batter from sticking to the paper.

Pour the banana bread batter into the pan and bake in the center rack of the oven for about 40 to 50 minutes or until the top is golden and a pick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean.

You can tent the top of the pan with a piece of foil to prevent the top of the bread from browning too fast.

Cooling Down

Cool the bread for 5 minutes in the pan, then pull the hanging pieces of parchment paper to release the almond butter bread from the pan.

Transfer to a cooling rack and wait a few hours before slicing.

When the bread reaches room temperature, slice and enjoy.

Serving

This banana bread is delicious on its own or even better with some spread like:

• Homemade chia seed jam
• Homemade date caramel
• Peanut butter or almond butter
• Chocolate spread

Storage Instructions

This banana bread can be stored for up to 4 days in an airtight cake box at room temperature or in the fridge.

You can freeze the entire bread, or just slices, and thaw the day before serving at room temperature.

Add-On Ideas

Banana bread is even better if filled with nuts, chocolate, or dried fruits.

Feel free to cold in 1/2 cup of some of the below ingredients in the batter before baking the bread

• Chocolate chips
• Walnuts
• Pecans
• Almonds
• Dried raisins

Frequently Asked Questions

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