There are just so many A’s in banana. So many. It’s confusing. And I have to sound it out every time. Sad, but true.
So I got this idea from the ever amazing Jessica at How Sweet It Is. Her blog posts come straight to my email so I’m greeted every morning with food I can’t consume. But her photography is unbelievable. What I would give to spend a day in her sugar jar. That sounded weird, but picture it. You can’t act like that wouldn’t be cool. And smell really good.
Anywho, I want to be just like her and as soon as I saw her post of banana (just sounded it out again) bread french toast, I HAD to make my own version. Twice. In two days. Laura and I ate it too fast on a Saturday night while we watched Bourne Supremacy and Bodyguard so I couldn’t snap any pictures. Wow, we’re single. Totes worth it though. I also had 2 non-paleo people say they LOVED it and my friend Sergio tell me to shut up when I asked him how it was. He stared at me with pure happiness in his eyes.
So this was cool. Laura and I went on a date for 5280 week at Fogo de Chao which is a brazilian restaurant in Denver. We don’t get asked on dates so we just take each other out…and pay for ourselves. Cool. Anyways. Ummmm holy meat. Just so much meat. Which was awesome. And the best part of it all was our server spilt a sangria on me (a trip from another patron occurred) and he felt soooooo bad. So bad. This poor adorable little man looked like he was going to cry because he was so embarrassed. I seriously didn’t care. It got in my hair. He obviously doesn’t know how disgusting my hair usually is because Laura and I got free sangrias AND desserts. Holy sugar overload. I ate flan and some kind of creamy dessert that tasted like melted ice cream. OH HELLS YEAH. I immediately was coughing up mucus after dinner and had a food child growing, making a home. I’m grossed out by myself from that last sentence. But it’s the sad sad truth.
Just to end this conversation, if you don’t ever try this recipe, your life WILL NOT be complete. If you want to win a man or woman over, make this dish. If you want to convert someone to paleo, make this dish. And if you want to cry tears into your food, make this dish. I don’t lie. Only 9 times out of 10 am I lying. Kidding…or am I? But you could just make the banana bread, make banana bread muffins, really whatever you want to do! Opportunities are endless in this paleo world!
Banana Bread French Toast
- Yield: 2-4 1x
Ingredients
For the bread
- 3 medium bananas (you want them brown and spotty)
- 1.5 cups roasted unsalted cashews
- 1 cup almond meal/flour
- 2 tablespoons walnut oil
- 2 eggs, whisked
- 1 tablespoon raw honey
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- pinch of salt
For the french toast
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup canned coconut milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1–2 tablespoons coconut oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Pull out your handy dandy food processor. It will make life soooo much easier. Add your cashews to the food processor to grind down.
- Once your get a fine cashew meal, add your walnut oil while your food processor is still on until you get a cashew butter.
- Then peel your bananas, roughly break them up, and add to your food processor with your cashews. Turn your food processor on and let combine for a minute or so until you have a soupy paste.
- Now in a large bowl, whisk your eggs, then add your cashew/banana mixture along with almond meal/flour, baking soda and powder, honey, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and salt. Mix to combine until you get a batter.
- Grease a loaf pan with some coconut oil. I used a loaf pan that was 9.3×5.2 inches (weird numbers) and it worked well. You could use smaller for taller loaf of bread, just may cook differently.
- Pour batter into your greased loaf pan. Place in oven and bake for 25-30 minutes or until bread is cooked through and the top of your loaf has a bit of a “crisp” to it.
- Let bread cool for about 10 minutes.
- When banana bread is cooled, whisk together your french toast ingredients (minus the coconut oil) in a shallow bowl.
- Heat up a skillet or griddle and add your coconut oil to it.
- Cut your bread into 1/2-1 inch slices, dip them in your egg mixture on both sides, then place on griddle to cook for 2-3 minutes per side.
- Top french toast off with slice bananas, maple syrup or honey, and a touch of cinnamon.
- Pure brilliance. Consume. Try to go slow. It is epic.
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I’m so bummed – I made this last night and the inside was still raw. I’m still getting used to baking “paleo”. I ended up baking it on the low end of your time range because the top of the bread was completely brown and looked “done”. I’ll plan on baking it next time ~30-32 minutes. I have a gas oven – have people found that they have to bake it a little longer? The ends of the bread were cooked and they were delish.
Outside was great. Looked done as you said. Stuck a wood toothpick down center came up clean. Took it out to flip onto the cooling rack. First most of the very bottom stuck (oiled the entire inside well) along with small chunks above it revealing the middle was still gooey. Did exactly as instructed even pan size and didn’t use Bob but actual blanched almond flour. Three things: if I left it in any longer, it wouldn’t have been edible (really burnt), my pan is glass, and I’m down here in the humid south. What should I have done differently? Thanks so much 🙂
This morning, this gave me a food-gasm.
My fav! I think yours is my favorite paleo blog on the planet. Today I used this recipe as a base to make pumpkin bread. I tried it with 1 banana, a small can of pumpkin, 3 softened dates, and at the very end mix in a lots of frozen whole cranberries. Good. Needs some tweaking – just a little too moist, I’ll probably cut the pumpkin down to 1 C next time.
I just made the banana bread and it’s amazing. It’s better than the non paleo stuff I’d made for years. I’m making the banana bread french toast in the morning. You rock. If I were a guy I’d so marry you. You’re amazing.
Juli, This recipe ROCKS!! Thank you so much for sharing your amazing culinary skills through this blog. My husband and I are new to the Paleo Lifestyle and I am so looking forward to making many more of your recipes!
Well, this sounds totally amazing. And since I am totally impatient and have to do it NOW and have no cashews (except raw) or walnut oil, I am going to try it with coconut oil and hazelnut flour (and the almond flour). Will let you know how it turns out. 😉
Had to comment on this one…OMG is not even good enough! Made the bread and couldn’t even let it get to the next step of making the french toast part. I’m afraid. It’s so good as just bread with some coconut butter on top. De-Lish!!!!! Guess I’ll have to make another loaf and this time actually go all the way with the recipe. I may just eat it all though…*drool*
So very pleased with this recipe, this banana bread is amazing!
The Hallelujah chorus played in my head while eating this! Beyond amazing!
JB, can I use walnuts instead of cashews? Or just more almonds? The only cashews I could find were roasted and salted.
yes either would work!
Sorry dude I just read through the comments and realized basically everyone has already asked that. My bad. It’s in the oven right now and it smells great. Freaking 2100 calories… I see why you give this stuff away. It gives me hope though because you do have a fantastic physique and knowing you eat these kinds of things while maintaining that is very inspiring. I made the pecan caramel bars for my birthday and ate all of them in a day. Took me a few more to work them off… The leftovers from this are going to my parents ASAP. Thanks so much for it.