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.
______________
You May Also Like:
Pumpkin Espresso French Toast Rounds
______________
Click Here To Get All My PaleOMG Recipes Into Your Meal Planner With Real Plans!
I may be compensated through my affiliate links in this post, but all opinions are my own. This compensation helps with expenses to keep this blog up and running!
What would be the best way to store the bread? My woman and I made about 5 loaves today
in the fridge
This is my absolute favorite recipe of yours! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! And so does my boyfriend who has no idea that it’s soooo healthy! 🙂
Julie, how in the EFF do you have time to respond to all this shiznit? I’m new to you and blog and I love it…but wow. Just wow. The volume! It’s Fight Gone Bad Gone Bad.
So about that banana bread…HFS. I love it. I had the same issue as Brielle above (gooey center – and that was after 45 minutes of baking). I, too, used Bob’s Red Mill. I’ve heard that it’s more like almond meal than actual flour…so the unintended gooey consequence could just be a result of too-big-to-soak-up-liquid almond particles. Going to increase baking time next time…and yes, there will be a next time. Probably a lot of them.
Two other comments: I dipped the pieces in shredded coconut before cooking, which was AWESOME – but, I also made the mistake of eating three slices within about an hour. I was treating it like non-Paleo banana bread, which you can eat too much of and then just not feel hungry for a bunch of hours but otherwise no ill effects. Not this stuff, though. I’ve had a stomacache all damn day and still can’t eat (yeah, 12 hours later). This has NOTHING TO DO with the amazing recipe, and everything to do with the human body’s standard reaction to getting too much fat in one sitting. No bueno. This is why most of us don’t power down an entire avocado, or eat 1/2 lb of nuts at once, or drink a cup of olive oil. So yeah, um…lesson learned (humbly, humbly).
Anyhoo, bottom line for this recipe: make for big group of people (they will love it and I won’t be able to eat too much of it).
dipping the slices in coconut first sounds AMAZING. guess i know what i’m doing this week
Thank you, These recipes rock and I am very excited to try them. Finding all the ingredients will be a challenge but I am up for it, all the flavors were amazing without sugar. I just made this recipe without the French toast part. We are expats from Castle Rock Colorado. My brother Joshua sent me your website link one day after we Skyped about his new California apartment. He had ripe bananas on his counter and said he was making paleo banana bread. I said what? Well I am hooked. I love to eat and run in that order and living in Riyadh Saudi Arabia has given me an opportunity to not work and be a full-time homemaker that enjoys cooking. Who cares about calories just run further.
Julie, if I am going to add a couple of scoops of SFH Recovery Vanilla to this. Is there anything I should change/add/do different? Thanks!
i have honestly no clue…
Hi!! Okay so a few things…1. I am completing my second Whole30 as of Easter and I am gonna make this for brunch and have mimosas with the bf and I am stoked!! 2. I have been eating paleo for a whole year now, and gotten at least 70% of the recipes I’ve made from your website…you are PHENOMENAL! 3. You’re also charming and hilarious, and I don’t read nearly enough of your blog. I am going to start!
Just thought you should know =)
Just made this for company coming over tonight. I added chopped up walnuts and a few chocolate nibs. I went to flip it on to the cooling rack and the whole middle of the bread fell out! I cooked it for 30 min and two toothpicks came out clean. But the middle is mush. Lame! Tastes good though. 40 min is probably more like it.
Holy cow. Made these for Easter Brunch yesterday, for my parents and bf. Winner!!!
One of the things I miss most since going Paleo has been banana bread. It would be an afternoon snack with a cup of hot tea — perfect to power me through an after work bike ride or run. I have tried several banana bread recipes and YOURS is the best I have found. Subbed almonds for the cashews and it is awesome. Thank you for the wonderful recipe!
Hi! I have a question, I have made this banana bread like 3 times and EVERY single time I make it the banana bread sinks in the middle after I take it out. Can anyone please tell me what I am dng wrong?????
I tested my baking powder/soda-it’s good. I left it in for 45 minutes and even put foil on it in the last 10 bc it was burning up top and not cooked in the middle. I used creamy almond butter instead of the cashews, everything else is the same. It tastes amazing, I just wish it did not sink.. Thank you!!!