This easy vegan banana bread recipe is delicious, moist and simple to make. It contains no eggs, no milk and no butter. We have replaced the butter, milk and eggs used in many traditional banana bread recipes… with vegetable oil and an extra banana. So this banana bread is vegan, has less saturated fat and even more banana flavor. Yum!!
Easy Vegan Banana Bread – Moist & Delicious!
Moreover, if you want to make this easy vegan banana bread even more unique, you can easily add a cup of chopped walnuts, blueberries, cranberries, etc. Your family will love this great tasting vegan dessert. Our banana bread recipe should take you roughly 10 minutes to prepare and clean up. Please be aware that this is an oven-baked banana bread recipe. It is not made with a bread machine. You will find a printable and “pin-able” recipe at the bottom of this page.
Vegan Banana Bread = No Eggs, No Butter & No Milk
Ingredients – Easy Vegan Banana Bread Recipe
- 1/2 Cup – Vegetable Oil – 115 milliliters – Use a neutral tasting vegetable oil such as corn or canola
- 4 – Bananas (ripe & large sized) – 460 grams – Roughly 1 3/4 to 2 cups of mashed bananas
- 2 Cups – Flour (all purpose flour) – 240 grams
- 1/2 Cup – Vegan White Granulated Sugar – 100 grams
- 1/2 Cup – Vegan Light Brown Sugar (packed cup) – 107 grams
- 1 Teaspoon – Vanilla Extract – 5 milliliters
- 1 Teaspoon – Baking Soda – 5 milliliters
- 1 Teaspoon – Baking Powder (aluminum free) – 5 milliliters
- 1/2 Teaspoon – Salt – 2.5 milliliters
- Optional – Add 1 Cup of Vegan Chocolate Chips (170 grams) or Fresh Cranberries (100 grams) or Chopped Walnuts (115 grams), etc.
Servings – Roughly 12 slices
Equipment – Measuring cup & spoons, mixing bowl, long wooden spoon, 9 by 5 bread pan, oven mitts, silicon spatula, cooling rack and an oven.
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Instructions – Easy Vegan Banana Bread Recipe
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Mash bananas with a fork.
- Stir bananas and vegetable oil together.
- Mix in remaining dry ingredients. Stir until the batter is fully mixed.
- Optional – Add 1 cup of your family’s favorite “special” ingredient (i.e. cranberries, blueberries, chopped walnuts, etc.) after the batter has been completely mixed. Make sure this cup of extra ingredients is evenly spread throughout the batter.
- Pour finished batter into a nonstick bread pan. Smooth out the top of the batter within the bread pan.
- Bake in the oven for 65-70 minutes.
- Take out of oven and let the banana bread cool down in the bread pan for 10 minutes. Do not remove the banana bread from the bread pan during this 10 minute cool down period. Use oven mitts as the bread pan will be very hot coming out of the oven.
- After 10 minutes, remove the banana bread from the bread pan. Place the banana bread on a cooling rack in order to completely cool. This cool down may take 1-2 hours. Gently slide a silicon spatula between the banana bread and the bread pan walls if the banana bread is stuck in the pan.
- Please read the tips section below for extra information on how to make this recipe successfully.
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Tips – Vegan Banana Bread Recipe
- The tips below are designed to help banana bread “novices” and/or people with limited baking experience.
- Click on our “print recipe” link if you want to print out this recipe. It includes all of the recipe’s ingredients and instructions. However, the recipe print function does not include our tips section. Please read the tips section in order to avoid common recipe problems.
- This recipe is part of our series on easy Banana Bread Recipes.
- The key to all good banana breads is RIPE bananas. Ripe bananas are soft and the exterior peel is usually yellow with many small black & brown spots. Hard yellow/green(ish) bananas are too starchy and have much less banana flavor. In contrast, ripe bananas are sweeter and have much more banana flavor.
- Optional – If you want to make your easy vegan banana bread even more unique & tasty, you can add 1 cup of chopped walnuts, blueberries, cranberries, etc. Stir this cup of extra ingredients (i.e. walnuts) into the batter after you have mixed all of the other recipe ingredients and before you pour the batter into the bread pan. Your family will love your awesome vegan blueberry banana bread, vegan cranberry banana bread, vegan banana nut bread, etc.
- If you want to make a vegan chocolate chip version of this recipe, please try our Vegan Chocolate Chip Banana Bread recipe. You will need to use vegan chocolate chips to make a chocolate chip vegan banana bread (because “regular” chocolate chips usually contain some milk).
- Be careful selecting what sugars to use when making vegan desserts & snacks. Look for vegan sugars because some “regular” sugars are filtered with bone char. For more on this issue, you might like to read the VegNews article “These 6 sugars are totally vegan (not every sugar is)” or the Treehugger article “Is Sugar Vegan? The Vegan’s Guide to Sugar“.
- You should use a neutral flavored vegetable oil (i.e. corn or canola oil) in order to make vegan banana bread. A strong flavored oil (i.e. olive oil or peanut oil) may negatively impact the banana bread taste.
- FYI – The vegetable oil replaces the butter and the extra banana replaces the eggs used in many traditional non-vegan banana bread recipes. This “extra” 4th banana (beyond the 3 bananas used in traditional banana bread recipes) helps to make this banana bread moist & delicious. Moreover, the extra banana creates a vegan banana bread that is even more “banana-licious” than regular banana breads!! You will really enjoy this easy vegan banana bread as it has even more banana flavor. Just remember to use ripe bananas for the best results.
- Since this recipe uses 4 bananas, there might be a little more moisture variability in your banana bread batter (given variation in banana sizes). Of course, my opinion of a large banana may differ from yours. Therefore, you might have to use the toothpick tip below.
- Try to measure your mashed bananas. 4 large bananas should equal 1 3/4 – 2 cups of mashed bananas. If you measure your mashed bananas, this will probably save you from too much moisture variability.
- If you want “bursts” of banana flavor, you shouldn’t over mash the bananas. More limited mashing will result in mini “chunks” of banana spread throughout the banana bread. See the picture at the top of the page for an example of banana chunks inside a banana bread. If you don’t want banana chunks then you should spend more time & effort to mash the bananas thoroughly.
- Please use the suggested 9 x 5 bread pan to make this recipe. FYI – 9 x 5 is the interior dimensions of the bread pan and doesn’t include handles, etc. If you start using different sized pans, there is a greater potential for bread top collapses (potentially less bread pan “wall” support for the quick bread as it rises), different interior batter to exterior bread ratios (thus the need for different baking lengths), smaller pans can overflow, etc.
- This doesn’t happen often but if the top of the banana bread looks too moist or under cooked, you should try the “toothpick test”. Gently push a toothpick into the top of the bread and see if any batter sticks to the toothpick. If batter is sticking to the toothpick then it hasn’t completely cooked. Place the bread pan back into the still hot oven for another 2 or 3 minutes. Make sure to wear oven gloves because the bread pan will be very hot. After the 2 or 3 minutes, remove the bread pan and test the banana bread again with a tooth pick.
- If you have a problem with a banana bread recipe, please make sure that you are following the recipe exactly (i.e. using the correct oven temperature), using the correct amounts of ingredients (i.e. don’t eyeball the measurements versus using a measuring cup or accidentally add a tablespoon when a teaspoon is called for), using the correct ingredients (i.e. baking soda/powder versus yeast or all purpose flour versus bread flour), etc. Please don’t “wing” things with recipes.
- Make sure that your oven has been completely preheated. If the oven has not been properly preheated, this banana bread could come out undercooked. Use a portable oven thermometer to check the interior oven temperature.
- If you are looking for vegan bread recipes, you should try our Vegan Sandwich Bread Recipe (with Italian seasoning).
- In addition, you should always try to use relatively fresh baking soda & powder for the best results. For example, using baking soda from an open container (that has been deodorizing your refrigerator for months) may lead to subpar results. Old & hard baking soda/powder may lead to rising problems and/or leave small bitter clumps in your banana bread.
- Always wear oven mitts/gloves when dealing with hot ovens, baking sheets, etc.
- Do not add the optional chopped walnuts if anyone who might eat this baked good has peanut and/or tree nut allergies. Always check friends, family and guests for potential food allergies.
- For more easy banana bread recipes (i.e. blueberry, cranberry, chocolate chip, oatmeal, etc.), please visit Bread Dad’s main Banana Bread Recipes section.
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Questions – Easy Vegan Banana Bread Recipe
What is a vegan banana bread?
A vegan banana bread is a banana bread made without any animal-based products. Most vegan banana bread recipes do not include animal-based ingredients such as butter, eggs or milk. Beyond a basic banana bread, vegan bakers can also create vegan cranberry banana bread, vegan blueberry banana bread, etc. Vegan banana breads are delicious and can contain less saturated fat than traditional banana breads that contain ingredients such as butter.
Are vegan desserts healthier?
Vegan desserts tend to be healthier than many non-vegan desserts because they usually contain less saturated fat. The lack of ingredients such as butter and/or whole milk generally reduces the saturated fat in a vegan dessert. However, be aware that vegan desserts may not be super healthy if they contain high levels of sugar and because some types of vegetable oil may contain less healthy fats.
Is vegetable oil vegan?
If a vegetable oil contains no animal-based ingredients then it generally considered to be vegan ingredient. Vegan recipes often use vegetable oils such as 100% canola oil, 100% corn oil, 100% olive oil, etc. When making a vegan dessert, many cooks like to use a neutral flavored vegetable oil (i.e. corn or canola oil) in order not to distort the taste of the dessert. A strong flavored oil (i.e. olive oil or peanut oil) may negatively change the flavor of a vegan banana bread. Always check the labels on your ingredients to make sure that they are vegan.
Is vegan banana bread easy to make?
Yes, vegan banana bread is very easy to make. You are just replacing some of the ingredients used in non-vegan banana bread recipes. Vegan bakers often use vegetable oil and fruit (i.e. applesauce or bananas) to replace the butter, eggs and/or milk used in non-vegan banana bread. For example, our banana bread recipe is simple, easy to make and has no milk, no eggs and no butter. Instead, it is made with extra bananas and vegetable oil.
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Reference Sources
- Wikipedia, Banana
- Wikipedia, Banana Bread
- Wikipedia, Veganism
Easy Vegan Banana Bread (No Eggs No Milk No Butter)
Ingredients
- 1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil (use a neutral tasting vegetable oil such as corn or canola)
- 4 Bananas (ripe & large sized)
- 2 Cups Flour (all purpose flour)
- 1/2 Cup Vegan White Granulated Sugar
- 1/2 Cup Vegan Light Brown Sugar (packed)
- 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder (aluminum free)
- 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Mash bananas with a fork.
- Stir bananas and vegetable oil together.
- Mix in remaining dry ingredients. Stir until the batter is fully mixed.
- Optional – Add 1 cup of your family's favorite "special" ingredient (i.e. cranberries, blueberries, chopped walnuts, etc.) after the batter has been completely mixed. Make sure this cup of extra ingredients is evenly spread throughout the batter.
- Pour finished batter into a nonstick bread pan. Smooth out the top of the batter within the bread pan.
- Bake in the oven for 65-70 minutes.
- Take out of oven and let the banana bread cool down in the bread pan for 10 minutes. Do not remove the banana bread from the bread pan during this 10 minute cool down period. Use oven mitts as the bread pan will be very hot coming out of the oven.
- After 10 minutes, remove the banana bread from the bread pan. Place the banana bread on a cooling rack in order to completely cool. This cool down may take 1-2 hours. Gently slide a silicon spatula between the banana bread and the bread pan walls if the banana bread is stuck in the pan.
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