Coconut Flour Banana Bread

Coconut Flour Banana Bread is a naturally sweetened gluten-free quick bread recipe with simple ingredients. Perfect for impressing the family with!

I love to make this coconut flour banana bread recipe in rotation with my almond flour banana bread!

I made coconut flour banana bread without any added sugar or sweetener, not even maple syrup or honey. Sounds just like coconut oil fudge from the other time, right?!

I had 8 bananas laying in a cupboard waiting to ripen, so they were all ready at once. Gluten-free banana bread with coconut flour here we come. It also happens to be grain-free, dairy-free and paleo!

A few years ago I was on a gluten-free kick for a bit and bought not 1 bag of coconut flour, but 2! Long gone its expiry date but it is still sitting and taking lots of room in my pantry.

So, I decided to experiment and what not a better way than with ripened bananas. Because apparently, I ripen them by pounds as well. So, this easy coconut flour banana bread is next!

Ingredients You Will Need

To make the best banana bread recipe without flour, you will need just 9 simple ingredients.

• Coconut flour: You have to use only coconut flour. Unfortunately you can’t substitute it with any other flour. I also haven’t experimented with dried coconut meat.
• Eggs: Eggs are crucial when baking with coconut flour. You can also use 1/2 cup egg whites instead. If you want to make it vegan, you may try to use flax eggs or chia eggs but bread won’t rise as well and be more dense.
• Peanut butter: I use smooth, creamy and unsalted peanut butter. You can use any other nut butter or seed butter like cashew butter, almond butter, sunflower seed butter, tahini etc.
• Bananas – must be ripe: Pictured above are previously frozen and thawed over ripen bananas. Since this banana cake relies on natural sweetness of bananas, you want to use the sweetest bananas possible.
• Baking staples: Baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, vanilla extract and salt.

Baking with Coconut Flour

Coconut flour is very tricky to bake with. It doesn’t contain gluten like wheat, that’s why this bread wouldn’t rise like whole wheat banana bread.

It is also very “thirsty” and absorbs a lot of liquid. I used only 1/2 cup of flour for the entire loaf. I still have lots of it to use, so I made chocolate coconut flour muffins with frozen cherries and they were delicious.

Also, you gotta use a lot of binding agent to keep things together. Many coconut flour recipes online use lots of eggs. Using 5-6 eggs per recipe didn’t sit well with me. But peanut butter, I could never say “no” to peanut butter. That’s how I was able to reduce the amount of eggs needed.

How to Make Banana Bread with Coconut Flour

Here is a quick overview how to make coconut flour banana bread. There is a full recipe card below.

1. Combine wet ingredients: In a large mixing bowl, mash bananas with a fork or a masher. Then add eggs, peanut butter, baking powder, baking soda, vanilla extract and salt. Whisk well until combined.
2. Add coconut flour: Stir until a thick batter forms. It will be very thick and that’s what you need.
3. Bake: Transfer into lined with parchment paper 9 by 5 inch loaf pan level with spatula. Then bake for 50 minutes in preheated oven to 350 degrees F.
4. Cool and slice: Remove bread from the oven and let it cook in the pan for 15 minutes. Then remove onto a cooling rack and let it cool completely before slicing with serrated knife.

Tips for Best Coconut Flour Banana Bread

• Do not skip cooling the bread: This bread is delicate and if you attempt to slice it while still warm, it will crumble and fall apart.
• Don’t skip the eggs: Unlike many other recipes on the web, my recipe uses only 2 large eggs, so the bread doesn’t taste egg-y. But as mentioned above, baking with coconut flour requires eggs.
• Line the loaf pan: With parchment paper otherwise the bread more likely will stick to the pan.
• Do not use any other flour: Coconut flour is the only flour you can use in this recipe.
• Use very-very ripe bananas: Use not ripe enough bananas and your bread won’t be sweet as we do not use any added sugar.

How Does It Taste?

So, that is what happened 8 years ago when I first made this recipe. This coconut flour banana bread came out very tasty. I always judge by my 9 year old’s reaction because he is past the stage of a picky eater and food-related tantrums unlike my 4 year old. He loved it!

The texture of the bread was very tender and the bread itself very moist with dominant peanut butter flavor. Thanks to peanut butter and coconut flour, I could keep the bread sweet without any added sugar which is always a plus.

Try it and let me know your thoughts. I’m going to warn you though, banana coconut flour bread has a different texture than traditional gluten bread. But looks quite normal, right?! Tastes pretty amazing too!

Can I Freeze It?

Absolutely. Quick breads and muffins are perfect for freezing and pulling out later for lunches, breakfast and snacks.

Store: Store leftovers in a cool dry place for 2 days, then transfer to an airtight container and refrigerate for a few more days. This bread is moist, so mold can grow very quickly.

Freeze: Bake coconut flour banana bread and cool completely. Place in a zip-top gallon-size plastic bag or airtight container, let out as much air as possible and freeze for up to 3 months in the freezer.

To thaw, simply defrost on a counter for 3 hours or overnight. Bread will taste like fresh.

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