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One Bowl Vegan Banana Apple Bread. This moist Vegan Banana Bread has ripe banana, shredded apple and nut butter. Add Walnuts or chocolate chips. Vegan Breakfast Recipe.
I am the only person in the house who gets to eat Banana breads. Hubbs is allergic, so I end up making loafs with other fruit puree more often. Our breakfasts most days are a savory affair. We always keep some time in the morning to cook up and eat breakfast with each other. Snacking during the day is another matter. Depending on the day and the meals, I reach out for nuts as the default snack option. Nuts are great if I eat a few, too many and I get pimples and a double chin. A slice of a hearty loaf like this makes for a great snack to last till the next meal and to keep me away from the big bowl of nuts.
Make this Easy Vegan Banana Apple Bread filled with bananas, apple, nut butter, no added oil, nuts and chocolate chips. This banana bread has shredded apple in it. Use zucchini to make Banana Zucchini bread. You can add finely chopped apple as well for chunkier pieces. Make it with all spelt or wheat pastry flour or half and half whole grain + unbleached white.
This bread needs one bowl. Whisk in the dry ingredients. Blend up the banana with non dairy milk. No banana chunks, no mashing needed. Add in the apple and nuts. Bake, slice and serve. For a gluten-free option see GF Banana Walnut Breakfast Loaf. You can also make the batter into Vegan Banana Apple muffins. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
More Breakfast Loafs and Muffins from the blog.
- Banana Walnut Breakfast Loaf. Gluten-free
- Banana Oat Quinoa Quick Bread bar.
- Pumpkin Sunshine Loaf. Gluten-free
- Banana Chocolate Bread.
- Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins
Steps:
Whisk all the dry ingredients and spices (pumpkin pie spice or other) in a bowl.
Blend the banana with non diary milk and nut butter and add to the bowl.
Add in the apples, nuts, Vegan Chocolate Chips 
etc and fold in. Drop the batter into a lined loaf pan.
Bake until done. Cool for 10 minutes then remove from the pan and cool completely before slicing.
Slice and store on the counter for the day and refrigerated (for upto 4 days) if storing for longer.
Video:
One Bowl Vegan Banana Apple Bread
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cup flour, I use 1 cup spelt/white whole wheat + 3/4 cup unbleached white flour
- 2 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice, or cinnamon or other spices of choice
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3 to 4 Tbsp powdered / fine sugar or sweetener, depends on how ripe the bananas are. Use less or more. I use raw sugar or coconut sugar that has been ground to a fine state in a blender
- 1/2 cup non dairy milk
- 2 large ripe bananas
- 1 Tbsp blackstrap molasses
- 2 Tbsp nut butter or use oil, I use almond butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup grated apple, 1 regular size apple shredded
- A few Tbsps walnuts, pecans, vegan chocolate, dried fruit, chopped dates or other additions
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 365 degrees F / 180ºc
- In a bowl whisk all the dry ingredients really well. (flour through sugar, including sugar).
- In a small blender, add banana, non dairy milk, nut butter, molasses, vanilla. Blend until smooth. (You can also mash the banana in a bowl until smooth then mix in the non dairy milk, nut butter and molasses). Add to the bowl. Mix until well combined into a stiff batter. Add grated apple. Add walnuts, other nuts, dates, or chocolate chips. I added 2 tbsp chopped walnuts, 1 Tbsp chopped cashews and 2 Tbsp chocolate chips. fold in well.
- Transfer batter to parchment lines loaf pan. Sprinkle chopped nuts on top (optional).
- Bake for 40 minutes at 365 degrees F / 180ºc.
- Reduce heat to 350 degrees F / 170ºc. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes or until toothpick from the center comes out almost clean.
- Cool for 10 minutes in the pan. Remove from the pan and cool completely before slicing.
Video
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Just found your blog. Just baked this and it is FABULOUS. Prettiest banana bread ever.
Cannot wait to try your other recipes especially the Indian dishes.
Welcome!! So happy you’re here.
Love this recipe. I have made this 2 x changing the nuts, adding Raisins. My family and I enjoyed it very much
Yay!
Glad to find this beauty!Don’t know where I’d be without your vegan rich goodness!A thousand thankyous xxx
Thank you!!
Another delicious cake, thank you Richa for the recipe!
thank you! glad you liked it.
Really delicious! I had to leave the kitchen so I wouldn’t eat any more of it. Yum!
Haha love to hear it! 🙂
Delicious recipe. Loved the banana apple combination. Very moist and flavorful.
Thank you!
Thank you~ and usually fruits that are in the pantry.
Hi the recipe looks 😋
I am gluten free so can I use a gluten free flour to wheat flour and would
The proportions change ?
Try my gluten-free banana bread https://www.veganricha.com/2014/04/banana-walnut-breakfast-loaf-gluten.html
Turned out much better than I expected :). I watched the video after putting the pan in the oven and realised my batter was thicker than yours, so it cooked quicker. I put all 3 tbs of sugar plus honey+instant coffee instead of blackstrap molasses, and some chopped dates, but it still wasn’t at all sweet. Next time I might put more fruit in, but it’s still good as it is with butter and I imagine it would be great with some jam too. I used a natural no sugar and very little oil peanut butter – I think that is another reason why my mix is not sweet and a bit dry.
Great that it turned out with your adjustments.
I love this recipe and many others, so I purchased your book. This recipe has different amount of flour and grated apple in the book from this one. 2 1/2 cups flour (batter was too dry) and grated apple says 180 g instead of 125g. I was wondering if there is an error in print?
Ooh yes that should have been 1 3/4 cup flour. I checked my tester recipes and that was what was written and tested! Good catch and thank you for letting me know. I’ll send it to the publisher to correct for future prints.
Thank you for the clarification… Love your recipe 😊
Glad to see that I wasn’t crazy. I was using the book and batter was super dry and cooked way faster than indicated. My nose picked up on that thankfully! I’ve no changed the amount in my book for future reference!
Thanks again for bringing this to my attention.