Whole Wheat Vegan Banana Bread
This banana bread is vegan, lower in sugar, and uses white whole wheat flour for extra nutrition and fiber. Mini chocolate chips are optional!
Ingredients
- 3 Tbsp. ground flax seed
- 5 Tbsp. hot water
- 1 c. mashed ripe banana about 3 medium bananas
- 1/2 c. olive oil scant
- 1/2 c. granulated sugar
- 2 c. white whole wheat flour see note for substitutions
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/4 c. mini chocolate chips optional
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9x3" loaf pan with olive oil or your favorite safe baking spray.
- In a small heat safe bowl, combine ground flax seed and hot water. Stir to combine, and let sit for 5 minutes for mixture to gel.
- In a medium mixing bowl, mash bananas until few lumps remain. Add flax seed mixture, olive oil, and granulated sugar. With a hand mixer or whisk, mix to thoroughly combine.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and ground cinnamon.
- Add dry ingredients into wet ingredients, stirring with a spatula just until a few spots of flour remain. Add chocolate chips if using, and mix until distributed throughout the dough. Do not overmix, a few lumps of flour are fine. The dough will be fairly thick.
- Pour dough into greased loaf pan and spread until evenly distributed and top is somewhat flat. Place into preheated oven. Bake for 50 minutes-1 hour, or until toothpick inserted into the loaf comes out clean (melted chocolate is fine!). Cool on a wire rack in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn the loaf out of the pan and cool completely. Slice and enjoy!
Notes
To substitute white whole wheat flour, use 2 c. all-purpose flour or 1 c. all-purpose flour plus 1 c. regular whole wheat flour. Do not use all regular whole wheat flour, the loaf will be too dense.
To make banana bread muffins, grease a 12-cup muffin tin or line it with paper muffin liners. Divide prepared dough evenly between the 12 cups, and bake for 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into a muffin comes out clean.