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 am running a half marathon tomorrow morning and plan on eating these as soon as I get home! It’s a totally acceptable recovery meal, right? 🙂 Nom Nom! I can’t wait. I’ll be thinking of the yumminess for 13.1 miles!
I agree! Best meal after a workout like that!
WOW! That was freaking awesome!
yay!!!!
Seriously, awesome!!!! Just what I needed on this rainy Sunday morning. Have leftovers for tomorrow (or maybe dinner lol)
glad you liked it!!
Hello! I made this and it was impossibly delicious! Now I feel like I can actually get enough stodge in my day and not starve. I’d really like to know what is the best way to store the bread? x
Store it in the fridge Sohpie 🙂
I buy bananas and don’t let anyone touch them until they get brown and nasty…… for the sole purpose of making this AMAZZZZZZZING banana bread!
you liked it!?
Cannot wait to try this! What about just using the bread to eat also? I would think that was ok.
That would be delicious!
French toast is one of my favorite foods EVER and I have missed it since going paleo…the concept of Paleo french toast is making me drool!
BUT: I can’t eat bananas. Never have. The smell alone makes me puke. Any ideas on what to sub in? Maybe part applesauce and part pumpkin or sweet potato mash? Thanks — love this blog!
Try out sweet potato! I’d be interested to know how that turned out!
I will definitely give it a go…it’s too tempting not to! Approximately how much would I need for sweet potatoes? 3 smallish ones? Enough to make 1.5-2 cups?
PS – I just rediscovered your blog and love your recipes and hilarity. Thanks for being awesome!
I’d say probably about 1-1.5 cups will do!!
I had to hide bananas from my husband in order to make this banana bread. They never go bad in my house before they are eaten all up!
I actually skipped the sweetener and added an extra banana… it turned out amazing. It was gone before I could even think about turning it into french toast. My husband even loved this and he is SUPER skeptical of paleo desserts.
Oh… also pureed
cashews, coconut oil, and bananas are amazing on their own. I had to say out loud “Kerrisan, stop eating this or the bread is going to be icky.”
Good news: I formed some sort of will power and the banana bread did not suffer from my constant snacking and licking.
will power is the hardest part of all! glad you liked it!
So, yesterday, I stumbled upon this little recipe that might make this banana bread even more amazing….I know….hard to believe. The recipe was for chocolate surprise banana muffins.
On the outside, looks just like a banana muffin….cut it open, and chocolatey goodness awaits.
How do they do this? After making the batter, set some aside, and mix in some cocoa powder, then partially fill the muffin (or bread) tin with regular batter, put a spoonfull of chocolatey batter on top, and top off with regular batter to hide the chocolate. Bake as usual. I’m gonna try it this weekend.
holy balls. please tell me all about it when you try it!
I made the chocolate filled banana muffins today. Damn good. I made them as I posted it above. Next time, I think I’d add more cocoa powder, and maybe some chocolate chips to make it even more chocolatey. I didn’t measure the amount of batter or cocoa powder. I’d guess it was a little more than a cup of batter, and I just kept adding cocoa powder, stirring, and tasting until I was happy with the flavor. Give it a shot…..super yummy.
I wish I had thought of this before…..I would have added chocolate protein powder to the chocolatey batter….mmmmmm protein and chocolate.
Hi Juli,
I’ve made this banana bread twice now but it always keeps collapsing in the center! I tried baking it for longer, but the outsides burned while the insides still collapsed. I still ate it anyway and it was DELICIOUS, but any suggestions to stop it from collapsing?
I would think maybe a bit more baaking soda would help! Try that out!