Wheat-Free Banana Bread

These banana bread muffins are so satisfying and delicious! I don’t feel guilty eating them either because all the ingredients are healthy (in moderation).

If you want the bread to be gluten-free, make sure that the oats are certified gluten-free. Sometimes oats are mixed with other, non-wheat, grains.

Some people are, but I’m not a huge fan of the hint of coconut flavor, so I love to use butter flavored coconut oil in the batter and to grease the pan too! Vegetable oil is another oil you could substitute for coconut oil.

Ingredients:

• 2 medium-size ripe bananas
• 1/4 cup unsweetened creamy peanut butter
• 1/4 cup unsweetened almond or coconut milk
• 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
• 1 tablespoon melted coconut oil
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 and 3/4 + 1/2 cup old-fashioned oats, divided
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350F. Grease or line muffin tin or pan.
2. In a mixing bowl, mash the 2 bananas.
3. Mix in peanut butter, nut milk, syrup, coconut oil, and vanilla. (Highly recommend adding the peanut butter first. I dropped it in after the milk and syrup…things got messy.)
4. Use a blender or food processor to grind the 1 and 3/4 cup oats to a very coarse flour as shown below. (Finer flour will yield a final product with a gummy texture.)

1. Mix the coarse oat flour, the 1/2 cup whole oats, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into the batter.
2. Once you have a relatively smooth batter, mix in chocolate chips!
3. Scoop into your pan or muffin tin.
4. Use a spatula or knife to spread the batter across the pan. (It doesn’t need to be perfect, just get it into all the corners.)
5. Cook the bread for 30 minutes, muffins for 15-20 minutes depending on the size of the muffins. (I cooked my 6 large muffins for 20 minutes.)
6. Check if the middle of the bread is cooked with a toothpick or fork.
7. Set bread to cool on a cooling rack for 10 minutes.
8. If you greased the pan instead of using a liner, use a fork or knife to carefully remove the bread from the pan.

Enjoy!