Almond Flour Banana Bread

Almond flour banana bread is soft, tender, and full of bananas!  This quick-bread recipe is the perfect afterschool snack, lunchtime treat or toasted with butter for a naughty breakfast!

This recipe took me quite a few tries to get right. Almond flour isn't an even swap for all-purpose flour, you see almond flour carries more moisture. So naturally, the bread is going to be more tender and more delicate. Normally I add sour cream or Greek yogurt to banana bread to make sure the quick bread is extra moist and delicious but adding it with almond flour made the bread way too moist, it fell apart.

I took out the sour cream and also upped the amount of almond flour and found the perfect texture. Almond flour banana bread is more delicate but absolutely delicious.

Almond provides such great flavor, I love it in my Bakewell tart recipe, almond flour brownies, and my almond chocolate chip cookies.

Let's get to the recipe.

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🥚 Ingredients

• Butter. You can use salted or unsalted, but if you use salted then I would omit the salt in the recipe. You could also use melted coconut oil.
• Light Brown Sugar. Since brown sugar is made with molasses it provides much more moisture and flavor than plain granulated sugar. The recipe only calls for ½ a cup but if you don't want to add the sugar feel free to omit it for sugar-free banana bread. Some recipes call for maple syrup if doing that I would omit the butter so the bread doesn't come out too wet. But I love the flavor of butter and I love a little sweetness so for me this combo works best.
• Large Eggs. Use large eggs at room temperature. To get eggs to room temperature place them in a bowl of warm water for 5 minutes.
• Pure Vanilla Extract. Adding vanilla to the batter makes for the best flavor. Don't use the
• Bananas. Your bananas need to be very ripe. The browner the banans get the more natural sweetness occurs in the fruit. To ripen unripe bananas place bananas on a baking tray and bake them for 20 minutes at 350F/180C. The bananas will ripen, most likely turning black, let them cool before removing the skin.
• Almond Flour. Make sure you use almond flour not almond meal.
• Salt. Just a smidge makes all the difference.
• Baking Soda. This leavening agent helps give the quick bread its rise and lift.

You could always add some chopped walnuts or chocolate chips, I would add ¾ cup of each.

📖 Instructions for Almond Flour Banana Bread

Preheat the oven to 350F/180C and grease a 9X5 loaf pan.

Whisk together the almond flour, salt, and baking soda.

In a large bowl mix together the butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla.

Once it's all fully combined add bananas and use a potato masher to mash them. Mix until the banans are evenly distributed.

Gently fold in the dry ingredients until just combined.

Pour into the prepared pan. If you want to sprinkle optional brown sugar on top for a sweet/ crunchy topping. My mom always did this with banana bread so I always do too ! 🙂

Bake for 48-53 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. I would check the bread at 30 minutes and rotate the pan, if the top is darkening too much place a piece of foil on top to protect it.

Let the bread cool at least 30 minutes before removing from pan. I find it easiest to place the wire rack face down on the banana bread and then flip.

Let the bread cool on a wire rack.

Store leftover slices at room temperature unless you live in a warm climate store in the fridge! Banana bread lasts for up to 4 days.

Keep in mind that the banana bread is more delicate than when banana bread is made with all-purpose flour.

🍌More banana bread recipes

Another gluten-free or grain-free banana bread recipe my readers love is my oat flour banana bread.

Strawberry banana bread is a delicious take on the classic strawberry banana combo.

And who doesn't love chocolate? Chocolate chip banana bread is a favorite of mine.

Check out all my banana bread recipes. And make sure to check out these delicious almond flour cookies, I can't wait to make them!

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