Vegan Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Fluffy, moist, and easy to make, this vegan chocolate chip banana bread truly hits the spot! This banana bread is moist, flavorful, and loaded with melty chocolate. This loaf is truly perfect and just a delicious as a classic!

The best thing about banana bread? It can be breakfast, dessert, and a snack! Who doesn't love a versatile recipe?!

This chocolate chip banana bread is vegan, eggless, nut-free, and dairy-free. It can easily be made refined sugar free and gluten-free, as well! Regardless, this really is the best vegan chocolate chip banana bread!

Key Ingredients

• Flour: as our base for the recipe and to provide structure for our bread.
• Bananas: the star of the show! Make sure you're using ripe bananas to get the most natural sweetness out of them. Check out the FAQ if you need to ripen your bananas quickly.
• Baking soda & baking powder: to help this baby rise!!
• Sugars: we're going to be using some brown sugar and some white sugar to add sweetness (don't worry, not a ton)! The brown sugar is a must for that rich flavor in my opinion.
• Vegan Butter: for moisture!! I highly recommend using vegan butter sticks, not the vegan butter in a tub.
• Vegan Buttermilk: another ingredient dedicated to moisture but also to help the bread rise. I'm using apple cider vinegar to make the homemade buttermilk, but feel free to use lemon juice or white vinegar.
• Vanilla: 'nuff said.
• Spices: to really enhance the flavor! We'll be using cinnamon and nutmeg, but feel free to through in any others you love.
• Salt: just a pinch to balance out the sweetness.
• Chocolate Chips:I'm sorry but NOT putting chocolate chips in banana bread should be a crime. There, I said it.

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 350°F and line an aluminium loaf pan (mine was 8 ½ x 4/12) with parchment paper or grease well with butter or cooking spray and set aside.
2. Make the vegan buttermilk by combining the dairy-free milk and apple cider vinegar together in a bowl and set aside for at least 5 minutes.
3. In a large bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, light brown sugar, white sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg together.
4. In the bowl you have the buttermilk in, add mashed banana, melted butter, and vanilla and whisk to combine.
5. Add the wet and dry ingredients together and mix until JUST combined. Mix once or twice more to fold in the chocolate chips. 
6. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan, leaving about 1-inch of space between the batter and the top of the pan (you'll likely have left over batter), then bake for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. If your bread is browning too quickly, carefully tent it with some foil for the remainder of the bake time. 
7. Let the banana bread completely cool on a cooling rack for at least 1 hour before slicing to ensure it doesn't sink in on itself or fall apart. Slice and serve with butter or peanut butter, if desired, and enjoy! 

Recipe Variations

• Make it gluten-free by replacing the all-purpose flour with your favorite gluten-free flour at a 1:1 ratio.
• Change up the mix-ins by adding chopped walnuts, seeds, dried fruits, different spices, or really anything you'd like!
• Use applesauce and reduce the vegan buttermilk by ¼ cup. This will make the bread extra moist.
• Make it double chocolate banana bread by adding ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder and reducing the flour by ½ cup.
• Change up your sweetener by using either all brown sugar, all white sugar, or all coconut sugar. You could even replace the sugar with maple syrup, if you wanted!
• Use coconut oil instead of vegan butter at a 1:1 ratio.
• Make banana bread muffins by dividing the batter across a 12 hole muffin pan.

Quick Tips

• Use ripe bananas for optimal sweetness! The blacker the banana is, the sweeter it usually is and the more your bread will taste banana-y. Just make sure they haven't actually gone bad!
• DO NOT OVERMIX! I feel like I always say this in all my baking recipes, but it's so important, especially for breads. If you overmix, your banana bread will likely be super dense, rubbery, and chewy.
• Use a light colored, metal bread pans like aluminum. Anything darker will cause your bread to cook much faster and if you don't adjust your cook time or temperature accordingly, you'll get a burnt or dried out bread.
• If your banana bread is browning too much or too quickly, lightly tent the top with foil while baking.
• Make sure you let the bread cool completely before cutting it! This will ensure that the bread won't flatten or sink in the middle.
• Don't store the banana bread in the fridge as it will dry it out.

FAQ

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Vegan Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Lauren Casolaro

Fluffy, moist, and easy to make, this vegan chocolate chip banana bread truly hits the spot!

Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 50 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr

Category: Breakfast, Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: 1 Loaf

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Equipment

• Loaf Pan

Ingredients

 

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• ▢ 2 cups (240 g) all-purpose flour
• ▢ 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ▢ 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ▢ ½ teaspoon salt
• ▢ ¼ cup (50 g) white sugar
• ▢ ¼ cup (50 g) light brown sugar
• ▢ ½ cup (113 g) vegan butter melted
• ▢ 1 cup (240 mL) dairy-free milk
• ▢ 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
• ▢ 3 medium overripe bananas mashed
• ▢ 1 tablespoon vanilla
• ▢ ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• ▢ ⅛ teaspoon nutmeg
• ▢ 1 ¼ cup of chocolate chips

Instructions

• Preheat your oven to 350°F and line an aluminium loaf pan with parchment paper or grease well with butter or spray and set aside.
• Make the vegan buttermilk mixture by combining the dairy-free milk and apple cider vinegar together in a bowl and set aside for at least 5 minutes.
  1 cup dairy-free milk, 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
• In a large bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg together.
  2 cups all-purpose flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, ½ teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon cinnamon, ⅛ teaspoon nutmeg
• In the bowl you have the buttermilk in, add mashed banana, melted butter, light brown sugar, granulated sugar and vanilla and whisk to combine.
  ¼ cup white sugar, ¼ cup light brown sugar, ½ cup vegan butter, 3 medium overripe bananas, 1 tablespoon vanilla
• Add the wet and dry ingredients together and mix until JUST combined. Add the chocolate chips and mix once more until distributed throughout.
  1 ¼ cup of chocolate chips
• Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan, leaving about 1-inch of space between the batter and the top of the pan (you'll likely have left over batter), then bake for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. If your bread is browning too quickly, carefully tent it with some foil for the remainder of the bake time. 
• Let the banana bread completely cool on a cooling rack for at least 1 hour before slicing to ensure it doesn't sink in on itself or fall apart. Slice and serve with vegan butter or peanut butter, if desired, and enjoy! 

Notes

Bake the bread in a light colored metal loaf pan, such as aluminum. 

Test to see if the loaf is cooked all the way by sticking a toothpick in the middle. If it comes out clean, it's good to go (ignore the melty chocolate)!

Nutritional values are estimates only. See our full nutrition disclosure here. 

Nutrition Facts

Serving: 1Slice | Calories: 313kcal | Carbohydrates: 44g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 10.5g | Saturated Fat: 4.5g | Sodium: 327mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 14.8g

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