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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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I LOVED the banana bread recipe from Juli’s french bread, but this one was awful. The only thing I didn’t do was add the maple syrup because I don’t think it needed sweetener with the bananas. It didn’t really bake in the middle until the outside burned, and the flavor is a little weird – but not from lack of sweet. Ick. Least fave banana bread recipe ever, sorry.
do you think you might have done something wrong? i’m just thinking maybe something happened on your end since there are over 100 reviews that are almost all 5 stars…
Question about the texture of this bread: what should it be? Mine turned out like a wet sponge. I really liked the flavor, but the texture was a bit weird. I’m wondering if it is due to the altitude I live at (6,500 ft). I followed the recipe exactly and didn’t make any high altitude adjustments. I live in Durango, CO, which has dry mountain air. I have always loved baking until I moved to Colorado, where it seems my baked recipes never turn out right. I’m to the point of giving up on baking anything that needs to rise (including cookies, my fav). Not sure what I’m doing wrong! I have a nice quality electric oven. Any help would be much appreciated.
This is absolutely fabulous.
I am allergic to all nuts/coconut except almonds… so the almond flour etc. is fine, but do you have a recommendation for something crunchy to sub for the pecans in the topping? I’ve tried almonds before and they don’t work well due to their texture, in my opinion. Also, do you have a good sub for coconut sugar?? Thanks!!!
you could try some sort of seed instead! and you could use maple sugar instead of coconut!
I didn’t read through all of the comments, so sorry if this is a duplicate. Do you post your nutritional facts? I keep track with an app and want to makes sure I’m accurate.
Thanks!
i do not, but you can easily track it in an app or through a nutritional calculator!
Today we have baked – off Paleo Bread at my gym (Angelino Crossfit) I was trying all kinds of Paleo recipe and after 3 days of trying I could not come up with award winning recipe until I discovered your recipe. I’ve cried when I tasted it out of happiness. Thank you so much for sharing your recipe and I think this is the best recipe out there for Coffee cake Banana Bread. I added coconut flakes and sunflower seeds to my toppings. Again’ Thank you! Wish we Luck Beautiful People XOXO
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Hi! Just curious if you can sub out the flours for all purpose almond flours? Google wasn’t a lot of help here 🙂
Looks amaze! My husband and I are going paleo so we’re so excited to try this. We have your book also ????
i’m not totally sure what all purpose almond flours are…i’ve never heard of that…
made this today–it was bangin. followed it to a T except did scant 1/4 cup of maple syrup, added heaping teaspoon of cinnamon and baked it in a 9×5 pan. will definitely be trying your gingerbread banana and carrot banana loaves next!
Been meaning to tell you that i LOVE all of your recipes! do you have any advise for when the banana bread comes out a little too mushy in the middle? maybe i just need to leave it in the oven for a bit longer?
Yes, you could cook it a little longer. Sometimes if I get impatient, I’ll just toast it if mine comes out undercooked 🙂 Hope that helps! Stacy- paleOMG assistant
Wow! I made this and shared it with my coworkers. It was devoured and when word got around it was paleo people were shocked. I love when that happens.! Thanks for another great one. This will be my go to banana bread recipe! Definite crowd pleaser!
awesome!! glad to hear it!