I love super-simple banana bread recipes, like my 3-Ingredient Banana Bread or 4-Ingredient Banana Bread. This recipe is almost as easy, and just as delicious!
Ingredients and Substitutions
Since the recipe uses only 5 ingredients, you must stick to these ingredients. No swaps or the result will be very different.
Mashed Bananas – The recipe works with any banana ripeness. The more dark spots on the skins, the sweeter the bread will be, so choose wisely based on your sweet tooth. Olive Oil or melted coconut oil – You can use refined coconut oil to avoid the coconut flavor of unrefined coconut oil. Or use canola oil. All-Purpose Flour or Spelt Flour – You can’t use almond flour, coconut flour, or oat flour for this recipe. The bread crumb would fall apart from any other flour. You must stick to wheat flour or spelt flour. Maple Syrup – or any liquid sweetener like agave syrup or brown rice syrup. Don’t swap the liquid sweetener for a crystal sweetener like coconut sugar or brown sugar. This swap would make the bread very dense and dry. Baking Powder – This is your raising agent. You need that tablespoon for a fluffy bread that rises well. Don’t use baking soda in this recipe, or the bread would have a bitter flavor.
How To Make 5-Ingredient Vegan Banana Bread
Most vegan banana bread recipes use at least 7 ingredients or more, so let me show you how you can make delicious, healthy banana bread with 5 ingredients only!
Flavor Variations
You can add some other ingredients to this banana bread to boost its flavors. My recommendation is to add some or one of the add-ons below:
1/2 cup of chocolate chips or finely chopped nuts like walnuts. Stir these in the batter at the very end. 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract – add with the liquid ingredients. 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon – add with the dry ingredients.
Storage Instructions
This easy banana bread with 5 ingredients stores very well in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days. I recommend slicing the bread on demand to keep it moist and fresh. However, if you prefer to freeze the bread, slice it first. Make sure you don’t overlap the slices in the container, or the slice would stick to each other, and it becomes difficult to thaw only one slice.
More Vegan Banana Recipes
I love creating easy vegan banana recipes to use my ripe bananas or to make delicious pre-workout food or vegan snacks for the kids. Below I listed my favorite vegan banana recipes for you to try.
