Chocolate Banana Flax Seed Bread
How was your long weekend? Did you even have a long weekend? I know some of us must work on Labor Day and I had many, many, Labor Days that I had to work.
Thanks, retail jobs…
We just relaxed this weekend without any special plans. I love holiday weekends like that. I don’t like to run to picnics, parties, and other events that you just run, run, run. Then, when it’s time to go back to work, I need another weekend to rest from the holiday weekend.
When I want to bake, I usually turn to baking bread. It’s so easy to make and I can go in all different directions. I could do banana, zucchini, or even chocolate bread.
I even like to mix all those choices together.
Like today.
I felt like banana and chocolate. Those two ingredients go together so well in different recipes. My favorite is as ice cream, but since I felt like baking, it’s chocolate banana bread!
Of course, I would love to make my favorite banana bread that’s full of sugar and all that stuff that I used to eat regularly. But, not to fear, because I have a healthier recipe that’s just as yummy.
Like I would eat it if wasn’t…duh.
- Ingredients
- 1 cup buckwheat flour
- 1/2 wheat flour
- 2 tsp ground flax seeds
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 3/4 tsp cinnamon
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 3 large ripe bananas, mashed
- 1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/3 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1/4 cup chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees and line a bread loaf pan with parchment paper
- Add all bananas to a mixing bowl and mash. Add in the melted coconut oil to assist in the mashing.
- Add in the vinegar, vanilla extract and maple syrup too. You should have a very wet banana mash now.
- Add flour, salt, cinnamon, baking powder, flax seeds.
- Mix until a wet and thick batter forms.
- Pour mixture into the loaf pan.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 35-40 minutes or until edges start to brown. Cool before slicing and serving.
