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Vegan Chocolate Banana Bread - a deliciously moist and chocolatey super easy recipe made in just one bowl with simple ingredients! #veganrecipes #veganbaking #bananabread #chocolatebananabread #veganchocolate #vegandesserts #bananas | Recipe on thecookandhim.com

Vegan Chocolate Banana Bread

Prep: 20 mins | Cook: 90 mins | Total: 110 mins | Quantity: 8 - 10 slices

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup (40g) coconut oil
  • 2 tblsp ground flax seeds
  • 1 + 3/4 cups ( 250g) plain flour
  • 1/4 cup (25g) raw cacao powder
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 3 tblsp (40g) Hodmedods Chia Seeds
  • 3 large bananas – the riper the better!
  • 1/2 cup (90g) coconut sugar
  • 1/3 cup (80ml) unsweetened almond milk
  • 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1/2 cup (100g) dairy free dark chocolate chips

Optional topping

  • 1 large banana
  • 1 tblsp coconut sugar
  • Loaf tin – 23 x 13cm (9 x 5 inches)

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 160 Fan / 180 C / 350 F / Gas 4.  I also brush my tin with a little oil and dust with flour as well as lay a piece of parchment inside as it's an old tin and losing its non-stick!  This also helps when lifting the loaf out of the tin!
  2. Melt the coconut oil and set aside to cool while you prepare everything else
  3. Mix the ground flax seeds with 1/3 cup (80ml) cold water to make a 'flax egg' and set those aside too
  4. In a small bowl whisk together the flour, cacao powder, baking powder, bicarb and chia seeds
  5. Peel the bananas and break into chunks into a large bowl.  Mash with a fork or potato masher till mostly mushed but some lumps are perfectly ok ?
  6. Add the coconut sugar, almond milk, vinegar, flax egg and melted coconut oil to the banana and whisk together
  7. Add the bowl of dry ingredients and the chocolate chips to the large bowl of wet ingredients and stir everything together with a rubber spatula or large spoon until very well mixed.  Scrape up from the bottom so that no lumps of flour remain
  8. Tip into you prepared loaf tin
  9. For the optional topping simply peel a banana and cut in half lengthways then lay on top of the cake mixture.  Gently push the banana in to slightly submerge it.  Sprinkle with a little coconut sugar.
  10. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes - 1 hour 30 minutes.  Test the cake with a skewer or long toothpick (you need to go quite deep into the cake).  If the skewer comes out clean - no raw mixture still clinging to it - the cake is cooked and can be left out of the oven.  Otherwise return the cake to the oven and cook until the skewer does come out clean
  11. Allow to cool in the tin for around 15 minutes before lifting out onto a wire rack and cooling completely.  Store in an airtight container

Recipe by The Cook & Him at https://thecookandhim.com/recipes/vegan-chocolate-banana-bread/