We need to talk about this flourless banana bread…
Eating this delicious banana bread will probably remind you of a giant oatmeal chocolate chip cookie…
And you’ll still be dreaming about it for days after it’s gone, wishing you could have some more.
The recipe can be easily modified to fit different diets:
✓Flourless
✓Refined-sugar-free
✓Vegan, gluten-free, & oil-free options
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Without any flour weighing down the recipe, the sweetness of the bananas really shines through.
Wholesome oats add substance, giving this bread its deliciously hearty texture.
And of course chocolate chips make everything taste even better… although the flourless banana bread is actually really good even without them!
You can also add raisins, shredded coconut, cinnamon, walnuts, or even dried cranberries for a Fall-ish banana bread.
Adapted from my Chocolate Banana Bread, which was the #1 most repinned recipe on my website for the month of September!
Guess you all really like banana bread!
Sorry, pumpkin.
The first step to making the flourless banana bread is to put the oats in a blender and blend until a fine powder forms.
This is what you’re using instead of flour in the recipe. Or for grain free, you could do the same thing with quinoa flakes if you’d prefer.
I also am working on a banana bread recipe using almond flour, so hopefully that one will be posted soon!
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Flourless Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups mashed banana (420g)
- 2 1/2 cups rolled oats (For low carb, try this Almond Flour Banana Bread)
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup milk of choice OR oil
- 1/2 cup pure maple syrup, agave, or honey
- 1 1/2 tbsp vinegar
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F, and grease a 9×5 loaf pan very well, making sure to go up the sides. Put the oats in a blender and blend until a fine powder forms. Add all other ingredients (except optional chips) and blend until smooth. Stir in optional chips if using. Pour the batter into the prepared pan, then bake on the middle rack for 35 minutes. Turn the oven off, but DON’T open the oven. Let the bread sit in the closed oven for another 10 minutes. Then remove from the oven and let cool completely before going around the sides with a knife, then inverting onto a plate.View Nutrition Facts
Notes
More Healthy Breakfast Recipes:
Flourless Banana Blender Muffins
Peanut Butter Brownie Baked Oatmeal
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This looks so yummy and I’d like to try it. However I don’t tolerate oats (also gluten free) that well so I was wondering if I could substitute with other flakes, e.g. tiger nuts, teff flakes, rice flakes, quinoa flakes etc. Any opinion?
Many thanks and keep on the good work!!
Haven’t tried anything else, but be sure to report back if you do try it with quinoa flakes or something else! Or just make one of my other banana breads, such as the Polka Dot Banana Bread, if you prefer 🙂
Banana bread without flour, so interesting. I`ll definitely try it 🙂 this recipe has the potential to be my new favorite. Thank you Kate 🙂
Can I add dark chocolate?
I noticed that a lot of your recipes require a blender, and on one page you referenced a Vitamix, which is super expensive. I would imagine you would need a pretty excellent blender to turn rolled oat into flour. If I’m going to buy a blender for these recipes, does it need to a high-quality, expensive blender, or can I make this stuff with a $30 blender?
I mixed all the ingredients (wet and dry) with an immersion blender until the oats were visibly smaller but before the dough was completely smooth (similar to the texture of a muffin dough). The result was perfect, so no need for a Vitamix in my opinion. I also substituted baking soda and vinegar with two additional tsp baking powder and it worked well, the dough rose noticeably while in the oven.
I wanted to report success with some modifications: I used white rice flour instead of oats, same amount (it’s just a safer starch/grain for me), 2 cups of mashed banana, reduced the maple syrup to 1/4 cup. Easily the best banana bread recipe ever, thank you! Even my picky fiance enjoyed it.
Hi Katie – I recently discovered your blog and have been making a new recipe every day for the last 2 months. I can’t seem to stop 🙂 Also picked up the cookbook – love it!
I made this recipe today and followed the directions exactly (I used almond milk unsweetened for the milk and maple syrup for the sweetener) – the only thing I left out was the chocolate chips. I followed all of the steps exactly (used a BlendTec) even though that meant being way more patient in waiting to taste test it than I normally am! And yet, the texture wasn’t right at all. It doesn’t visually look anything like your bread in the pictures and while the flavor is phenomenal, the texture is just really gummy. Any idea where I went wrong??
Thanks so much for all the recipes you take the time to post – you have truly opened my eyes to a new way of baking that I never thought possible! Not only for me, but now I can make my sister (who is a type 1 diabetic) desserts for the first time! YAY!
Hi! It’s impossible to know without being there or without more information. But it sounds like either something was mismeasured or maybe you just didn’t bake it long enough or climate played a role? Also is your oven calibrated?
Did you try leaving it sit for a day?
I didn’t have this issue when I made the recipe, so unfortunately I probably can’t be very helpful more than that.
Does anyone know if its 9 X 5 cm pan or 9 X 5 inches pan?? And are the measurments metric or U.S. measurementes??
Inches 🙂
This is a great recipe. I like to add chopped dates too. Who knew flourless banana bread could really work? Love CCK!
Can I make this with applesauce instead of bananas?
Sorry haven’t tried. But if you try, be sure to report back 🙂
I’ve made this banana bread and it was sooo amazing, gooey, soft and flavorful, although it didn’t look anything like yours 🙂
18 min @ 350 was perfect for muffins! Not sure I would call them “flourless” since the main ingredients is oat flour. 🙂 But still yummy and gluten free if you use gluten free oats.
Can you replace the vinegar with anything else that’s not acidic? I can’t have acidic foods. I run into this all the time. Any ideas?
This is a year late but hope it helps someone else. The vinegar and baking soda react together in a chemical reaction which produces water and carbon dioxide. Simply put, the protons (which are the cause of acidity in anything) go to the water, which is obviously not acidic. Please educate yourselves before buying into bulls*it pH diets. If you have acid reflux, which is a valid reason to cut down on acidic foods, the above applies.
Yum! I just made this and it is delicious. It went together pretty well–I used a food processor instead of a blender, and I had a bit of trouble telling if/when it was done, but it tastes amazing and made my house smell good. 🙂 I added pecans in addition to the chocolate chips, which I would highly recommend.
Fantastic recipe!!! I didnt have a baking powder so I added lemon juice and extra vinegar…and with added nuts and seeds, I must say this is my fav recipe!!
I tried this recipe last night – and it was awesome! I don’t think I ground the oats fine enough, but that just left more chunky pieces. Also, used chopped pecans instead of chocolate chips – the whole loaf disappeared in one meal (with 6 people!). Thanks for this recipe!
i just tried this recipe leaving out the sweetener – would have been way too sweet if i had added anything. really good and moist! by the way, agave nectar is HIGHLY PROCESSED and bad for you. it’s processed similarly to HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP – yuk!!!.
Probably the only banana cake/bread I’ll ever make again as long as I live! My old recipe (which was the banana cake my mom always used to make) is going into the recycling bin. (Sorry mom!) lol
Just wondering 🙂 what’s the vinegar in this recipe for? Is it just to provide an acidic medium for the baking soda to make the bread rise?