Can't decide between banana bread and coffee? Combine these two classic delicious breakfast bakes and make this Vegan Coffee Cake Banana Bread. It's golden, buttery, moist, and delicious! Everyone in your home will love it and no one will guess it's vegan and gluten-free friendly.
Coffee Cake Banana Bread Ingredients
- Bananas: The key to making the perfect banana bread is to make sure that your bananas are overripe. Brown and spotty bananas are perfect for this vegan coffee cake banana bread.
- Milk: To keep this coffee cake banana bread vegan, we use non-dairy milk such as unsweetened almond milk or oat milk. If you are not vegan or dairy-free, regular milk will work.
- Butter: We use melted vegan butter to make sure this vegan coffee cake banana bread is nice and moist. If you are not vegan or dairy-free, regular butter will also work.
- Brown Sugar: We use light brown sugar to sweeten our banana bread. Brown coconut sugar will also work.
- Vanilla Extract: For a lovely coffee cake flavor.
- Baking Powder & Baking Soda: Because our coffee cake banana bread is vegan, we don't use any eggs. Instead, we use baking powder and baking soda to make our cake nice and fluffy.
- Flour: We use regular or gluten-free all purpose flour in this recipe. To make your loaf gluten-free, we recommend King Arthur Measure for Measure Gluten-Free Flour.
- Cinnamon: No coffee cake is complete without a generous amount of cinnamon!
How To Make This Recipe
Step 1: Mash your overripe bananas and mix them with the wet ingredients.
Step 2: Add the sugar, baking powder, and baking soda and mix.
Step 3: Add the flour and mix until a smooth batter is formed.
Step 4: Transfer half of the batter into a greased loaf pan. Top with brown sugar and cinnamon.
Step 5: Add the remaining batter on top.
Step 6: Make the cinnamon brown sugar streusel and add it on top of the loaf. Bake in the oven until golden and completely cooked through.
Step 7: Slice, and serve warm or cool.
Frequently Asked Questions
We recommend storing the coffee cake banana bread at room temperature in a sealed container. It should last about 5 days. Refrigeration can be drying for baked goods. To extend storage life, we recommend freezing and reheating in the microwave.
Yes! I recommend trying my oatmeal banana bread recipe!
Yes! I recommend trying my coffee cake recipe!
Coffee Cake Banana Bread
Equipment
- 1 small mixing bowl
- 1 Large Mixing Bowl
- fork for mashing and mixing
- Non-Stick Baking Spray
Ingredients
Coffee Cake Banana Bread Batter
- 3 overripe bananas
- ⅓ cup melted vegan butter
- ¾ cup light brown sugar or coconut sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup unsweetened almond or oat milk
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 2 cup regular or gluten-free all purpose flour
Coffee Cake Banana Bread Filling
- ¼ cup light brown sugar
- 3 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Coffee Cake Banana Bread Topping
- 2 tablespoon melted vegan butter
- ¼ cup light brown sugar
- ½ cup regular or gluten-free all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
Coffee Cake Banana Bread
- Preheat the oven to 375. Grease a metal loaf pan with non-stick baking spray.
- In a medium or large mixing bowl, use a fork to mash the overripe bananas. Add the melted vegan butter, vanilla, sugar, almond or oat milk, baking soda, and baking powder to the bowl. Mix until smooth, then add the flour and mix until a thick batter forms.
- Transfer half of the batter into the greased loaf pan. Evenly sprinkle brown sugar on top of the batter. Then, evenly sprinkle cinnamon on top of the batter. Pour the remaining batter on the top of the loaf.
- Next, make the cinnamon streusel topping by mixing the melted vegan butter, cinnamon, brown sugar, and flour in a small mixing bowl. Sprinkle the crumble over the top of the banana bread and bake in the oven for 50-55 minutes or until you can insert a toothpick into the center of the loaf and it comes out clean.
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Nutrition
The recipes on Peanut Butter and Jilly can easily be adapted to fit a vegan lifestyle, a gluten-free lifestyle, or both depending on the ingredients you use. Please review the ingredients lists carefully and refer to our recommendations in the Notes of the recipe card to make this recipe compatible with your needs. Nutrition information provided is an estimate, and will vary based on specific brands of ingredients used and cooking methods.
kathleen says
can i use buttermilk for this?
Jillian Glenn says
absolutely!
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Ashley says
Can I use regular butter and would it be the same measurement?
Jillian Glenn says
Absolutely! Same measurement!
Andrea says
Made this a few times for my vegan family members and it’s hard to go back to using old bananas any other way. It’s so delicious!