BABY FRIENDLY BANANA BREAD

We love that this bread is not only sugar free and baby friendly but it’s also a great healthier banana bread option. Working with the natural sugar in bananas, especially when they’re blackened, actually makes this bread taste sweeter than you might think.

This Baby Friendly Banana Bread can also be made gluten free as it only has a small amount of flour (only 1/2 cup). We used all purpose flour but you can use whole wheat, almond flour, oat flour, or even rice flour.

It does have eggs so this recipe is not a vegan one, unfortunately.

A sprinkle of cinnamon on top of a whole sliced banana gives this bread a wonderful aromatic flavor.

Make this recipe into a large loaf pan or three mini loaves as seen here.

We made this bread for Ollie when he was ten months old and he loved it.
It was a struggle to find a banana bread recipe that had no added sugar (we tried to be really strict about no added sugars for Ollie until he turned one). But every recipe we came across included sugars, honey, or maple syrup until we found this one on Pinterest.

Once it’s all baked and warm, adding a little unsalted butter on top is the perfect accompaniment.

For snacking or eating brunch these little loaves are the best size too, especially for little baby fingers. Just slice into little strips across the width for baby self feeding. Or cut into little bite sized pieces once they’re old enough and using their pincer grasp. All our feeding knowledge and how to’s were found on Solid Starts, they have a wonderful app for all sizing on how to cut babies foods at different ages! Cannot recommend them and their team of experts enough.

If you’re looking to freeze these loaves, they freeze perfectly. Slice beforehand so it’s easy to defrost them piece by piece.

BABY FRIENDLY BANANA BREAD

Print Recipe

Course Breakfast

Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 45 minutes mins

Servings 3 MINI LOAVES

Ingredients

• 125 G COCONUT OIL OR UNSALTED BUTTER MELTED
• 3 VERY RIPE BANANAS BLACKENED
• 1 1/2 CUPS SHREDDED COCONUT UNSWEETENED
• 1 CUP GROUND ALMONDS
• 1/2 CUP FLOUR
• 1 TEASPOON BAKING SODA
• 2 TEASPOONS VANILLA ESSENCE
• 3 LARGE EGGS WHISKED
• PINCH OF SALT
• 1 BANANA SLICED IN HALF FOR GARNISH
• PINCH OF CINNAMON FOR GARNISH

Instructions

• PREHEAT OVEN TO 350 F DEGREES, SPRAY 3 MINI LOAF PANS WITH COOKING SPRAY OR 1 LARGE LOAF PAN
• COMBINE MELTED BUTTER (OR COCONUT OIL) WITH 3 MASHED BANANAS, SHREDDED COCONUT, GROUND ALMONDS, FLOUR, PINCH OF SALT, BAKING SODA, WHISKED EGGS, AND VANILLA IN A MEDIUM SIZED BOWL. COMBINE WELL TOGETHER.
• TRANSFER INTO LOAF PANS EVENLY. GARNISH WITH BANANA SLICED IN HALF LENGTHWISE & HALF IN THE WIDTH. SPRINKLE LOAVES WITH A PINCH OF CINNAMON.
• BAKE FOR 35-45 MINUTES UNTIL MIDDLE IS NO LONGER WET, CHECK WITH A TOOTHPICK OR SKEWER. IT SHOULD COME OUT CLEAN ONCE IT'S FINISHED BAKING.
• COOL IN LOAF PANS FOR ABOUT 10 MINUTES, TRANSFER TO A WIRE COOLING RACK AND SLICE. SERVE WARM WITH BUTTER.
• STORE BANANA BREAD IN THE FRIDGE OR FREEZE ALREADY SLICED FOR EASY BREAKFAST, BRUNCH, LUNCH, OR SNACKS!

Notes

AUTHOR: NADIA

If you’re not looking for the sugar free, healthy Banana Bread options like this one; these are going to be more your style!

Baked Banana Bread

Greek Yogurt Banana Bread

Much love,