This chai-spiced vegan banana bread is fragrant, moist, and comforting, made with ripe bananas and warm spices for a flavorful treat.
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup plant based milk oat, almond, soy etc.
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 4 ripe bananas
- ⅓ cup cane sugar
- 3 tbsp grapeseed oil
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1½ cups flour or gluten-free flour of your choice
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- 1 tsp ginger powder
- 1 tsp cardamom powder
- ½ tsp sea salt
- ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
- A pinch of ground pepper
- ⅓ cup walnuts or chocolate chips or both – optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- In a small bowl, mix milk and apple cider vinegar. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, mash 3 bananas (save 1 banana for topping).
- Add sugar, oil, maple, and vanilla to the bananas, and mix together, using a whisk.
- Add the milk-vinegar mixture and mix well.
- Add flour, baking soda and spices and combine all together – making sure not to over mix it – just until the flour is combined.
- If you are adding walnuts and/or chocolate chips, fold them into the batter gently.
- Grease a loaf pan.
- Pour in the batter.
- Slice the extra banana and place the banana slices on top of the batter. Sprinkle a bit of cinnamon on top.
- If you’d like, sprinkle with extra walnuts and/or chocolate chips.
- Bake for 45 minutes.