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Say what?? I want to eat this all day. No seriously. I almost did yesterday.
Alright. I need to put something out there. Right on the table. This is for my readers that have read my blog for a while now and know my complete life story. First, thank you for sticking with me. You’re the best. You’ve been with me through the ups and downs. So a while back, you read about my break up. Well, months later, that lovely man and I rekindled our happiness and have been together for sometime now. Annnnnd we moved in together. First time moving in with a guy. Woooo weeee. I decided to keep some of my relationship stuff to myself since there are so many variables when it comes to creating a happy relationship. Sometimes it’s just better to keep that stuff between you and your partner, instead of the world wide web. BUT since I hadn’t updated anyone and there were some questions in my last blog post, there ya go. He’s just wonderful. We’ve had our ups and downs, but I couldn’t be happier. Taking a new journey together has been awesome.
Sorry this post is coming at you a little late. Let me explain myself. So yesterday, lovely Sunday, I woke up and made a smoothie. Fact. Then worked out. Then the true fun began. I went couch shopping. Ugh. Not only is furniture shopping an extremely awful task, but on a Sunday when all hell breaks loose in every parking lot, it’s an even worse task. Ok, I shouldn’t really complain. It wasn’t that terrible. It just gets pretty unfun when you’re hungry and have to pee. So we looked for couches, found one we liked, couldn’t decide if we should get it, then went to another furniture store. Which was even more unfun because it was way more expensive. But the parking lot was better, so that was a positive.
Yes, I understand unfun is not a word. If you were thinking that in your head, you’re unfun.
So after the boyfriend and I found out we couldn’t come to a conclusion, we headed to brunch. Around 3. I was starving. Hangry. After a couple mimosas, I felt decent for them not being as strong as needed on a sunny Sunday. But I knew I wanted to make this recipe. So we bolted home for him to take an afternoon snooze and for me to bake. And I baked. And failed. I put this recipe into a too small baking dish and it pretty much went every where. All over the oven. I mean…I still ate the edible parts. But the non edibles turned into smoke inside the oven. So I then cleaned the oven and couched it for a while in frustration. But I couldn’t go down that easy, so I made it again last night and just stared at it since I couldn’t eat it until I took pictures until today. Which leads me to right now. This very moment. I just took pictures of this beauty. Now go make it. It’s amazing.
Coffee Cake Banana Bread
- Yield: 6-8 1x
Ingredients
- 3 brown bananas, mashed
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup almond butter (or other nut/seed butter)
- 1/4 cup coconut flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- pinch of salt
For the toppings
- 4 tablespoons (1/4 cup) grass fed butter, at room temperature (or coconut oil)
- 2 tablespoons coconut sugar
- 2 tablespoons almond flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 cup pecans, crushed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a8×4 loaf pan with oil then line the middle with parchment paper. It will make it easier to remove from the pan without it coming apart.
- In a large bowl, mix together bananas, maple syrup, vanilla extract, eggs, and almond butter.
- Then add coconut flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt and mix well.
- Pour batter into baking dish. Place on a baking sheet.
- In a small bowl, add butter, coconut sugar, almond flour, cinnamon, and pecans. Use your hands to mix the toppings together.
- Place chunks of the toppings all around the top of the banana bread mixture.
- Place in oven to bake for 50 minutes.
- Remove from oven, place on cooling rack and let rest for 5-10 minutes before cutting and serving.
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This looks fantastic! I LOVE coffee cake 🙂 we actually made paleo banana bread too BTW! It was to die for!
You are genious!! This bread is amazing!! Made last night and now it’s pretty much gone, soo good!! Loving using coconut flour lately it’s so dense! Thank you thank you!!
Made this for Mothers Day brunch and it was absolutely scrumptious!!!! The pecan topping, perfect! I’ll definitely be making this again! Thank you! 🙂 five stars!
This was amazing!! I will definitely be making this over and over!! 🙂
Hi there, just thought I’d tell you how much we (well, perhaps me more than anyone else as I’m the one with the sweet tooth in the family) enjoy your cake. It’s absolutely amazing and definitely the best that’s out there! Believe me, I’ve tried a few. Not only it tastes amazing, but it ‘s also almond flour free, which I’m doubly pleased about as almond flour is so expensive. So well done and thank you for sharing it with us. Very, very yummy! 🙂
PS: Although I also did expect it to have coffee in it as some previous commentators mentioned. Nevertheless, it’s gorgeous without it!:)
haha it’s actually called coffee cake because it was created to eat with coffee! so happy to hear you like it as much as i do!
This is my second time ever baking paleo banana breads The banana smelt amazing and the taste is so good. But my batter came out too moist, in fact it was so wet that I have to eat it with a fork.
I need some help with this because that was what happened when I baked last time too. I used bananas from the fridge and my bananas were huge. Could that be the reason why?
And I used honey instead of maple syrup? does it make a difference?
The honey wouldn’t make a difference but the size of your bananas could be it. Store it in the fridge and it will firm up a little bit.
have you ever added coffee to the recipe?
nope! coffee cake was created to be eaten with coffee (which is why it’s called that) but i’m sure it would be great with coffee added!
OMG. THIS IS AMAZING. My husband and I started eating paleo a few weeks back and he is always complaining that it’s “boring”….UNTIL I made this banana bread. Thanks, Juli!!! We also love your vanilla bean cookies!
See you in Austin on Thursday at your book singing! 🙂
I am always trying new paleo banana bread recipes, so definitely had to try this one.
Mine didn’t turn out anything like the picture, and all my toppings fell through to the bottom!
I’m a pretty experienced baker, so I know it wasn’t a problem in the measuring or ingredient category, but just was curious as to why you think this happened?
I ended up turning the loaf over to cut, and it still tasted delicious, just didn’t hold the topping to the top.
We love this bread so much! My kids both have several allergies/intolerances and we have slowly moved to more and more paleo foods/recipes to suit them. We keep coming back to this recipe because it’s the best we have tried. We made a few loaves at a time, slice them up and freeze them. We toast them for breakfast with vegan cheese 🙂
Thank you