Baked Goods

chocolate banana almond butter bread – with sea salt

You know the temperatures are starting to fall when I bust out my sifter, flour, sugar and turn the oven on to bake.

2 browning bananas caught my attention earlier this week. I hate wasting food but don’t really love brown bananas so I decided to bake them into a tasty, hearty bread. This was my first bread made with nut butter. Baking with nut butters (i.e. peanut or almond butter) is a great way to replace the less healthy fats from butter by substituting with healthier fats found in nuts!

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I also used a 50/50 mix of whole wheat and white flour to add some extra fiber.

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The key to this recipe, aside from the nut butter and whole wheat flour, are the chocolate chips and sea salt. I like to use the 60% cocoa disks made by Ghirardelli. (You can usually get them at Whole Foods if you can’t find them at your local grocery store)

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A little sprinkle of sea salt on top of each slice completes the experience. Bittersweet chocolate + almond butter + sea salt = heaven.

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  • Thank you for the recipe! I was searching the internet for a bit more healthier banana bread using just 2 bananas (I am always scared to use less bananas then the recipe suggests) a found this one!
    I used only spelt flour and replaced the sugars by honey, added walnuts, white and milk chocolate and it turned out amazing!

    Thank you, this will go to my ‘recipe book’ :)

  • I absolutley LOVE this banana bread! it tastes like heaven and I feel good about eating it because it seems to be a little healthier than normal recipes. I’m just about to make it for the 3rd time and ill probably be tempted to eat the whole pan:)

  • I just had to let you know that I’m obsessed with this recipe. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve made it. I have a few personal tweaks — almond milk instead of dairy, add ground flaxseed, skip the chocolate chips, and I usually use peanut butter rather than almond. Even though I loooove almond butter, I like natural peanut butter better in this loaf sometimes. Anyway, THANK YOU. Everyone raves every time I make this. xoxo

    • Thank YOU for your awesome feedback! Glad you love it – sounds delicious your way too! :)

  • Hi Elle,
    If you have any of this banana bread left over, bring it with you. It sounds absolutely yummy.
    Dorothy

  • Yum! This post brings back happy breakfast memories from my drive back to Georgia :) Thanks Elle!

  • Oh that looks delicious! Thank you for the recipe…I have been looking for some like this for awhile :D P.S. I love your site.

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