Honey Banana Bread With Almond Flour

This honey banana bread is sweet, moist, and dense, and it will satisfy any banana bread craving. Best of all, it’s wonderfully nutritious and fits in perfectly with almost any healthy lifestyle.

I’ve been on a bit of a health journey lately, and I’ve been prescribed a very (very) clean diet to try to let my poor little sensitive stomach do what it needs to do to rebalance itself and heal, and that’s how this honey banana bread came to be. This healthy lifestyle includes no gluten, no packaged foods, no refined sugar, no sugar substitutes, no caffeine, no alcohol, no high-acid foods… the list goes on. Believe it or not, I’m actually really enjoying it as long as I can find time to cook myself healthy meals from scratch. Even with all these healthy choices, I’m determined to continue my Friday night baking sessions as they’re such great stress relievers for me, and I love having little treats to enjoy throughout the week. So, I’m not quitting baking; I’m just switching things up a little bit. I was experimenting with gluten-free banana bread recipes, and when I finally came to this variation, I knew I had a winner. You’ll have to pardon the casual phone photos in this post. I made it the other night and shared it on Instagram, and I had several requests for the recipe for this healthy banana bread, so I thought I’d type it up and get it shared as soon as possible.

Maybe next time I make it, I’ll pause a moment before digging in to get some “real” photos to add to this post, but for now, this recipe is too good to sit on. 🙂

Here’s how the banana bread looked straight out of the oven.

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Ingredients Needed for the Honey Banana Bread

You’ll need

• Olive oil
• Raw honey
• Ripe or overripe bananas
• Eggs (or a plant-based egg substitute)
• Almond milk
• Vanilla extract
• Almond flour
• Baking soda
• Ground cinnamon
• Coarse sea salt

The great thing about these ingredients is that, even though this is an incredibly health-concious recipe, most of the ingredients are things you likely already have in your kitchen, with the exception of maybe the almond flour if you’re just getting started with gluten-free baking and you haven’t yet made it a pantry staple.

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Method for Preparing the Banana Bread With Almond Flour

Banana bread has been such a baking staple for me my entire adult life. I’d say it’s almost essential to my way of life. Is there anything better than a nice, warm slice of banana bread with a hot beverage on a chilly afternoon? I’m so glad to have this comforting banana bread recipe to rely on for times when I just need a cozy moment.

In a medium bowl, combine the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt, and set it aside. Preheat the oven to 350°.

In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, combine the olive oil and the honey. You can also use a large mixing bowl and a whisk if you’d like a bit of a workout. Mix the oil and honey together until they’re well-combined, then add in your mashed ripe banana, egg, almond milk, and vanilla. Continue mixing until you have a smooth, even mixture.

Add the dry ingredients a little at a time, stirring continuously until you see a smooth, evenly blended batter form.

Transfer the mixture to a parchment-lined loaf pan, then bake for about an hour and ten minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

Allow the loaf to cool completely on a wire rack before gently running a knife along the ends of the baking dish, and using the parchment to lift the loaf out of the loaf baker and onto a cutting board. Cut the quick bread into slices and store them in an airtight container in the refrigerator. It’s best to eat this banana bread within a couple of days, but if you’d like to save it for later, you can freeze any extra slices individually. Remove the plastic-wrap from the frozen slices of this moist banana bread and microwave for about 30 seconds before serving.

If you have multiple loaf pans, you may want to make a few loaves because this banana bread freezes beautifully.

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The Finished and Cooled Banana Bread

Here’s a look at the banana bread after I had stored it in the fridge overnight. I took it out to slice and saw that it had darkened quite a bit.

The color is almost reminiscent of Starbucks’ Banana Fig Loaf from back in the day, but not quite as dark as that. My version is also quite a bit more moist and has more banana flavour, despite using fewer bananas than a lot of banana bread recipes.

Healthy Treat Variation Ideas

If you’re able to have chocolate, making this into chocolate-chip banana bread is an obvious choice to make this a slightly more indulgent treat. Chocolate is off the table for me for the next little while, but I would love to try adding unsweetened carob chips to this recipe the next time I make it. This recipe could also easily be adapted to make banana bread muffins if you’d like to take your banana bread to go.

I love banana nut bread, so I will definitely try adding chopped walnuts. I could also add sliced almonds, pecan pieces, flax or chia seeds, shredded coconut, or a combination of two or three nuts and seeds to make a really hearty snack. So many delicious options with one simple, wholesome recipe.

Here’s the full printable recipe. Use it on your phone or tablet, or print it off to keep it in your recipe binder.