This banana bread is seriously perfect! Thick, delicious, easy to make, and dirties just one bowl. And - it's vegan!
Recipe by Valentina | The Baking Fairy on May 19, 2015
Prep time: PT10M
Cook time: PT60M
Total time: PT70M
Rating
4.87 stars (122 reviews)
Ingredients
4 medium ripe bananas
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup unsweetened nondairy milk
1/2 cup light brown sugar
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
sliced bananas (for topping)
Categories
Breads &amp
Loaf Cakes
Steps
Preheat the oven to 350F. Spray a 9×5 loaf pan with nonstick spray, then flour.
In a large mixing bowl, roughly mash the bananas. Add the brown sugar, oil, vanilla, and almond milk, and whisk to incorporate.
Mix in the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon and stir until combined. Do not overmix, or the banana bread can come out dense and gummy!
Transfer the batter to your prepared pan, and top with the extra banana slices.
Bake for about 45 minutes, then cover with foil and bake for 10-15 minutes longer, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with just a couple crumbs.
Reviews
Julia on 2024-11-12 (5 stars): The BEST banana bread recipe. I’ve been making this recipe for years!
Bec on 2023-12-30 (5 stars): Oh my goodness. So easy and so delicious. It looked exactly like your photo too. I used with oat milk and white sugar. Delicious!! Thank you so much.
Cassie on 2023-08-04 (5 stars): I love this banana bread. My son has a bunch of food allergies that have hurled me into the world of vegan baking and I must say when you have a banana bread like this you don’t even notice it’s without eggs / dairy. Everyone in my family loves it. I usually make with olive oil (light flavoured) but today I used grapeseed oil and I’d happily use either again. Thanks for a recipe we’ll be keeping forever.
Cy on 2023-07-07 (5 stars): Joining the chorus to sing the praises of this banana bread. I baked it a few years ago when my partner and I were living in Hawaii. I doubled the bananas as another poster suggested, and we were lucky enough to have a whole bunch of bananas from Waipio Valley (Google it, it's worth it) that our neighbor had brought us. I also added locally made mango extract and local macadamia nuts to the recipe. We were in Heaven, it was the best banana bread I've ever had.
Now back in Los Angeles. No Waipio bananas but we still have some Hawaiian mango x and I'm grabbing macadamia nuts tomorrow so we can recreate this for a luau this weekend. Can't wait to try it again!
Cassie on 2023-03-13 (5 stars): Absolutely delicious. I used coconut oil but that’s the only change. Thank you!
Margaret on 2023-02-04 (5 stars): Made this bread as a recommended recipe on the Zoe diet. Excellent! More cake-like when freshly baked, and a moister, denser loaf the next day, still delicious.
A few comments: firstly, really appreciated the warnings above to mix gently till only just blended. It rose beautifully and not at all gummy.
Secondly, living in west Wales where unusual ingredients are hard to find, I wondered how on earth I was going to find an American ingredient like baking soda. Googled it and turns out it is what we in UK know as bicarbonate of soda, good old bicarb! My Mum used to add a teaspoonful of it to boiled cabbage back in the day, to preserve its bright green colour. Just as well I noticed a comment above, or I would probably have used baking powder.
Thirdly, for those cooking in UK, 350 degrees Fahrenheit is 175 degrees Centigrade. I wasn’t sure if it was standard oven or fan oven, so I dropped the oven temperature to 165 deg Centigrade as I use a fan oven, and the timings worked perfectly. But then, everyone’s oven is different
Thank you for the recipe
Margaret
Kendra on 2023-01-18 (5 stars): Found this recipe 5 years ago. Bookmarked and printed. It's my go to banana bread. I make exactly as stated. It's perfect. Thank you!
Bre on 2022-10-26 (5 stars): I want to print this recipie and stick it to every wall incase the internet ever goes down and I lose it THE BEST BANANA BREAD EVER.
Gee on 2022-08-22 (5 stars): Absolutely the best banana bread I’ve ever made. I’ve tried many recipes in the past but none have worked so well. Thank you for sharing.
I used Aussie cup measures so thought it might not come out well but it was perfection. I also used coconut sugar as I try to avoid normal sugar and it was totally delish. Bookmarked and my go to recipe from now
I only made it today and it’s already half gone. Proof indeed
Russ on 2022-06-22 (5 stars): Perfect!
Juliet on 2022-02-27 (5 stars): This is delicious! All my friends loved it, even the one who professes not to like banana bread. My boyfriend would eat the whole thing at once if I let him. Thanks!
Kristin on 2021-12-04 (5 stars): Just made this! Such a beautiful loaf, everyone loves it. The roughly mashed bananas are amazing. I only used 3 bananas because it’s all I had.
Terry Jones on 2021-10-30 (5 stars): our favorite! My daughter is vegan and it's hard to make things she can eat, but us non vegans like as well. We all loved this! I've made it as written and I also made with 1/4c applesauce because I only had 3 bananas, both were amazing! I've also added walnuts, pecans, almonds, and chocolate chips at different times. Thank you for our favorite recipe for banana bread!
