Chocolate Chip Coconut Flour Banana Bread
A simple, 1-bowl, healthy recipe for banana bread made using coconut flour!
Ingredients
- 3 large very ripe bananas*
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 4 eggs**
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup coconut flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips divided
Instructions
- 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a standard loaf pan with parchment paper and set aside. If you're out of parchment, just grease the pan very well; this bread tends to stick more heavily than traditional banana bread.
- 2. Peel the bananas and add them to a large bowl with the maple syrup, olive oil, eggs, and vanilla. Use a potato masher to completely mash the bananas and combine the wet ingredients together. Add all remaining ingredients to the wet mixture, including half of the chocolate chips, and stir again to combine (I kept using my potato masher, but you could switch out to a rubber spatula or spoon at this point).
- 3. Scrape the batter into the loaf pan, top with remaining chocolate chips, and bake for 45+ minutes, or until deeply golden brown and no longer jiggly in the middle.
- 4. Let banana bread cool 10-15 minutes before lifting it out of the pan and: 1. cutting slices and serving, or 2. letting cool completely and storing in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 days.
Notes
*The riper, the better. If your bananas don't at least have several brown spots on them, wait another day or two before baking! If your bananas are on the tiny side, go ahead and use 4. Otherwise, 3 bananas should be perfect.
**Yes, really. Since coconut flour is 1. Gluten Free, 2. Grain Free, and 3. Weird, it absorbs tons of liquid but doesn't provide much structure to the banana bread. Without all these eggs, it would be a gooey mess. Trust me. Most of my recipes can be made vegan by subbing a flax or chia egg, but this bread becomes a gummy mess without eggs; if you're vegan or allergic to eggs I suggest sticking with one of the wheat flour banana bread recipes on my site, which all yield beautiful egg-free loaves! Adapted from Fit Foodie Finds
**Yes, really. Since coconut flour is 1. Gluten Free, 2. Grain Free, and 3. Weird, it absorbs tons of liquid but doesn't provide much structure to the banana bread. Without all these eggs, it would be a gooey mess. Trust me. Most of my recipes can be made vegan by subbing a flax or chia egg, but this bread becomes a gummy mess without eggs; if you're vegan or allergic to eggs I suggest sticking with one of the wheat flour banana bread recipes on my site, which all yield beautiful egg-free loaves! Adapted from Fit Foodie Finds