The BEST healthy banana bread recipe made with almond flour and NO flour and no oats! Tender on the outside, moist and fluffy on the inside, this healthy banana breakfast bread is paleo, vegan, gluten-free and sugar free!
Healthy Banana Bread Recipe
Oh the things you discuss or speculate when you have brunch.
The other day, I was having enjoying a meal with a mate and we were playing the ‘what if‘ game and the question put forward was the cliche ‘What would you do if you won a million dollars?’
My mate pretty much answered a cliche answer- He’d buy a shoebox apartment and maybe furnish it with Ikea furniture.
Good man.
Times have changed where a million bucks can only go so far.
Me?
Well, enter the randomness.
Easy Paleo Vegan Banana Bread
Long term readers know I’m the biggest fan of Harry Potter. I died a little inside when the final book came out, but that was because I went to a house party and someone gave me peppermint schnapps mixed with wine.
NOT COOL.
Okay, back to the topic.
I died a little inside (again) upon finishing the book. I seriously felt like part of me had ended. If I won a million dollars, I would hold a contest for anyone in the world to continue the Harry Potter novels and write a 9th book, 10th book, 11th book…you get the picture. This wouldn’t mean they would be published- It would be for me to (selfishly) continue the Harry Potter adventure.
A big reason for this is perhaps my inability to start a new book. Once I finished the final Harry Potter book, I went back to the very first book and continued down the road of each book until I had finished them all again….and repeat.
So what does this have to do with today’s recipe?
Absolutely nothing.
So there.
Well, I guess now you know what I’d do with a million bucks, should I ever win such an amount. While this banana breakfast cake doesn’t cost a million bucks to make, it sure tastes like it could be worth that!
Banana Bread Without Oats and Flour
This healthy flourless banana breakfast cake is fluffy and light on the inside, tender on the outside and loaded with banana flavor! For a light and fluffy cake, it is extremely filling and perfect to enjoy for breakfast or even as a healthy snack or dessert! Unlike traditional banana cakes, this version contains no butter, oil, flour (unless you opt for the paleo version, in which it is grain free!) or sugar- Yet you’d never tell! This recipe is totally suitable for most dietary lifestyles out there- It’s gluten free, vegan, dairy free, sugar free and comes with a paleo option too!
HACK! I usually opt for a ‘protein packed frosting’ on these breakfast cakes but for some reason, this worked better without it! However, my taste buds might differ from yours so if you’d like a bigger protein punch, use the frosting used in this recipe, using one of these tested protein powders!
Make this healthy Flourless Banana Breakfast Cake and maybe it will spur you to write a Harry Potter book 9.
….No monetary compensation attached.
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Healthy Flourless Banana Bread (Paleo, Vegan, Gluten-Free)
Ingredients
- 2 cups blanched almond flour
- 2 tablespoon granulated sweetener of choice * See notes
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 large overripe bananas, mashed
- 2 flax eggs Can sub for 2 whole eggs
- 1/2 cup coconut oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F/180C. Grease a loaf pan or 10 x 10-inch square pan and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the dry ingredients and mix well.
- In a separate bowl, melt your coconut oil. Add your mashed bananas and flax eggs/eggs and whisk together.
- Combine wet and dry mixture and mix until fully incorporated. Pour into the greased pan.
- Bake for 40-50 minutes (square pan tends to be around the 40-minute mark, loaf pan 45-50 minute mark!), or until a toothpick comes out clean from the center.
- Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. Slice and enjoy.
Notes
Nutrition
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Let’s be cliche. If you won a million dollars, you’d buy….
Do you re-read your favorite books? Clearly. I have a friend who says they find out something new each time (when they re-read Harry Potter!)
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I always re-read my favorite books! I am not a big fan of Harry Potter (sorry), but I love Vladimir Nabokov and read his books again and again. I am definitely reccomend him if you ever want something more “classic” 😉
Oh thanks for that- I’ll have to hunt it down! 🙂
Harry Potter!
I am still not sure I would actually read a 9th book. That might be because it’s like warmed up food to me. Have I ever told you that I didn’t read the final book for over 1,5 years because I refused to let it end?
For a million dollars I would pay my rent and buy plane tickets to everywhere. I would spend all money travelling and I wouldn’t come back until it was gone completely.
Oh no! Really? That is impressive!!! I wouldn’t have been able to handle it!
I keep trying to buy enough bananas to have a couple left for baking with no such luck. I’m pathetic and always say if I ever won money I’d pay off debt and then give the rest back. Although you’re right in that 1m doesn’t really get you very far now!
Lol, right? A million bucks these days gets you nothing!
If you won a million dollars, I could see you building a Harry Potter wizardland to live in. Oh wait, Disney already did that? Then I could see you buying Disney. Oh wait, a million dollars won’t do that? Fine then. I could see you mailing me some of this delicious breakfast cake.
I think a million bucks may JUST be the amount for a single sliver of this cake.
So I double checked the recipe to see if you made the chocolate chips “optional” again, but it turns out they’re not even on there!! Arman!
As far as books go, I’m notorious for re-reading a series. I do the same with Netflix shows. I just can’t let go once I”m invested!
LOL!!! My bad…but then again, maybe it was a trick just to spite you 😉
Omg. Don’t get me started on Netflix shows. Gossip girl…reruns.
Cake for breakfast? Sounds like a plan to me! I bet the nut butter gives this an amazing soft texture! 🙂
Such a good texture- Thanks Kaila!
Haha i appreciate your randomness, this is why we are friends! If I could win a million dollars, I would totally buy a wawa aka an east coast gas station that has the BEST FOOD EVER!
OMG. My friend will not shut up about them…she claims they make the best coffee and subs ever!!!
If I had a million dollars I’d pay off my car loan, my student loans and then I’d move to Florida and save the rest. Really boring, but I’m a simple person. I’d probably donate some of it to MFA or fund a few kick starters too if I got bored.
You know I’m a Harry Potter fan, so I’ve definitely reread them 🙂 I used to reread more books when I was younger.
You and me, both!
That’s a fun game! If I won a million dollars, I would start a foundation to help with childhood obesity.
That’s such a great initiative!
I re-read Gone with the Wind so many times when I was younger I could actually recite it! Nerd alert.
If I won a million dollars…I would definitely invest a lot of it for future real estate and early retirement 🙂
Haha that is awesome!!!!
I feel you on the Harry Potter love! Seriously, I think I’ve read the 3rd book 20 times!
The breakfast cake looks perfect!
No shame in that- It’s a good one!
Thanks Heather!
Let’s play the What If game next time we see each other–that would be so fun! And I stopped at the Goblet of Fire. Sue me.
Haha, I forgive you!
Are the pictures of the paleo or oat version?
Hi Michelle, they are the oat version!
Oat version is actually just what I was looking for. Can I just sub out the almond flour for oat flour? ?
Yes 🙂 It will just be a little bit flat!
After reading the comments it appears that there are 2 recipes versions, where is the oat flour version? I thought the picture above was the result of the recipe that was listed below it. thank you.
The recipe was amended to include one perfect version!
Peppermint schnapps and wine eh? You had some kind friends back then…
Never knew you were such a HP fan. But that explains your suave hairdo 🙂
If I won a million dollars I’d be off with my backpack stomping through Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and India.
That sounds like a great plan!
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YES!! Mohina, I’m seriously keen to go to the UK for it…