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The Best Chocolate Walnut Banana Bread

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes

Ingredients

  • 150 g unrefined caster sugar or coconut sugar
  • 2 or 240 g ripe bananas
  • 75 g slightly melted, but not liquid coconut oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 150 g oat flour
  • 45 g oats
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/3 tsp bicarb
  • Pinch sea salt
  • 40 g chopped dark chocolate
  • 30 g roughly chopped walnuts
  • 1 banana for decoration

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180c and line a loaf tin with baking paper.
  • In a large mixing bowl, cream together the sugar and coconut oil until they appear light and fluffy. Then, beat in the eggs one at a time.
  • Mash the bananas thouroughly with the back of a fork and mix these into the wet ingredients.
  • Fold through the dry ingredients, then stir in your walnuts and chocolate chunks to evenly distribute.
  • Transfer the banana bread batter into your loaf tin, then slice the remaining banana lengthways and place this on top. Bake for around 45-50 minutes until golden. To check your banana bread is cooked thorugh, peirce with a skewer and if it's clean on removal, you're done!
  • Allow to cool on a wire wrack before slicing.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Baking
Keyword: banana bread, gluten free