Vegan Banana bread

So the other night I was feeling particularly down for a couple of reasons so I went online and found this recipe, I had all the ingredients in and it seemed relatively easy so I made it. MY GOD!! It is so delicious and between Darren and I we ate the whole thing within a matter of hours and then the next day I made another one haha.
During the cooking process your kitchen smells so tasty!!

The main flavours that stood out to me where of course bananas and the nutmeg. Before going vegan I used to really enjoy egg custards and the level of nutmeg you can taste on the egg custard is the same as on this banana bread.

You don't need any fancy equipment just some basic cooking cutlery, a loaf tin and 2 mixing bowls.

I did do a freeze test on a thin slice (I was not willing to waste a thick slice if it didn't work out :p ). It took about 30 minutes to defrost it so if it was a thicker slice you would probably need to give yourself an hour to be on the safe side. The 30 minutes it took for my thin slice meant it was no longer frozen but it was still quite cold so bare that in mind if you are giving it to friends.

Freezing your banana bread is ideal if there is only a couple of you who would be eating it and you don't want to eat the whole thing, believe me it really is so easy to do. If you where going to take a piece to work with you it would be defrosted by lunch time or even a summer picnic.

The finished product is very moist and soft and like I said I got 12 decent slices out of it. It does not contain any refined sugar. Here is the recipe ;

It's very simple so I will list the ingredients and the instructions at the same time <3

Pre-heat the oven to 170 C or 338 F and Grease your loaf tin with a very small amount of melted coconut oil.

firstly if you don't have apple sauce in your cupboard then you need to make it, this is how I made mine. I used one small to medium apple, any will do. I peeled and cored the apple and cut each apple slice into 4 so they where small. I then put the apple pieces in a pan with a small amount of boiling water and allowed the water to simmer and the apple will start to soften. I used a potato masher to mash mine and if you feel you need more water then go for it but you only need a very small amount of this apple sauce so don't go too mad with the amount. (If you have little ones you could always double the apple sauce and give it to them on some porridge for breakfast)

4 spotted bananas

     1/2 cup coconut sugar

1/4 cup of apple sauce

1/4 cup coconut oil

1tsp of vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg

1/4 tsp salt

In your bowl you want to mash up the bananas, I used a potato masher. Do not worry if there are larger chunks of banana just keep mashing until you are happy, next add in your coconut sugar and use the masher to combine the two ingredients together. Then go ahead and add in the rest of the listed ingredients and mix well.

In your second bowl add

1 1/2 cups of plain white flour (feel free to use wholemeal)

2 tsp of baking powder

1/2 tsp bicarbonate soda/ baking soda

and mix really well, I used a whisk to ensure it was well combined. Then add all the ingredients together and when your happy its all combined, pour into your already greased loaf tin and put it in the oven for 40-45 mins.

Please note that every oven is different so you may just need to check on your bread to see how its getting on. If you use a cake tester, it may not come out clean because of the bananas and apple sauce and it will look under cooked if you cut it straight away but it will firm up as it cools. It is delicious warm and would be lovely with ice cream. This is not my recipe. I found it online and I will try and link them.

Darren and I went through our second cake quite quickly but we gave 2 slices to his folks to try and those four in cling film are currently in the freezer. The rest we ate the same day, it really is terrible but once you have made it you will understand just how delicious it really is. The only expensive items in the recipe would probably be the coconut oil and the coconut sugar. You can of course use castor sugar or even brown sugar. I luckily had all of the ingredients in already so no cost to me. Please give this recipe a go. It does not taste like it has no eggs or dairy in it and I guarantee everyone will enjoy it and will be rather impressed too. Thank you for visiting. Feel free to comment and tell me if you liked It as much as I do xx

  Side note- I have since made this banana bread and I only realised part way through mashing bananas that I had no apples to make the apple sauce so I took a risk and just added another small ripe banana and it turned out just fine. Much nicer with the apple sauce but it is still very tasty without  :D xxx