I love baking my own banana bread, and I have shared countless of recipe for them. Sometimes, I like experimenting with new flour types to make a healthier banana bread like my chickpea flour banana bread.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
Today, I grabbed a bag of white spelt flour, and here’s why. Spelt flour can be used in any recipe calling for all-purpose flour in almost identical amounts. But compared to white wheat flour, spelt flour contains more protein, fiber, magnesium, and vitamins. Spelt flour contains gluten. It’s not gluten-free and unsuitable for people with coeliac disease. However, spelt flour is often easier to digest than wheat flour. In fact, 100 grams of spelt flour contains 11 grams of fiber, compared to only 2.6 grams of wheat flour. It also has fewer carbs, with 70 grams per 100 grams, while all-purpose contains 76 grams per 100 grams. It means that spelt flour has a lower glycemic index that impacts your blood sugar level less quickly than all-purpose flour.
Ingredients and Substitutions
Grab a bag of white spelt flour and your riper bananas, and make the most delicious, moist, fluffy banana bread.
Ripe Bananas – The darker the bananas, the sweeter the banana bread. I like bananas with dark spots on the skins. You can also use less ripe bananas and adjust the sugar in the recipe accordingly. For example, if your banana are very brown, you can even remove the sugar to make a no added sugar spelt banana bread. White Spelt Flour – I don’t recommend using whole spelt flour for this recipe, or the bread will come out dry. Eventually, you can swap 1/2 cup of white spelt for the whole spelt to add fiber and keep the banana bread crumb firm and fluffy. Baking Powder and Baking Soda – to give the bread some rise. Cinnamon – for flavors. Vanilla Extract – for even more flavor. Melted Coconut Oil, light olive oil, or canola oil. Any light-flavor oil works for this recipe. Even melted plant-based butter will be a great fit. Coconut Sugar or brown sugar
If you want to add crunch, or flavors to the banana bread batter try stirring 1/2 cup of the blow ingredients at the end:
Chocolate Chips Chopped Pecans or chopped walnuts Unsweetened Shredded Coconut
How To Make Spelt Banana Bread
Serving
Slice the banana bread just before eating. The crumb of the whole bread stays moist. Serve each banana bread slice plain or with some of the delicious matching banana topping below:
Peanut Butter Almond Butter Jam or use my baby jam for a healthy alternative. Plant-Based Yogurt or vegan custard
Storage Instructions
This banana bread can be stored very well for a few days at room temperature in a cake box if it’s not too hot where you live. Otherwise, store as per the below to keep it fresh for longer.
In the fridge in an airtight container for up to 5 days. Freeze the whole or sliced bread for up to one month and place it in freezer bags or containers. Thaw at room temperature the day before serving. Rewarm the banana bread before serving if you like. You can place the banana bread slice in an oven or bread toaster.
Allergy Swaps
Below are some ingredient substitutions if you need to adapt the recipe to some food allergies.
Gluten-Free – Spelt is not gluten-free. You may be able to achieve a delicious banana bread using all-purpose gluten-free flour instead. Sugar-Free – If you used overripe bananas you can skip the sugar in the recipe. You can also use sugar-free crystal sweetener that are 1:1 replacement to sugar or a teaspoon stevia drop.
Below are the answers to your most common questions about baking baked goods with spelt flour.
