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Vegan Chocolate Banana Bread

This is the best Vegan Chocolate Banana Bread recipe, you will ever have. Chocolate Banana Bread is incredibly soft, moist, fluffy, and full of sweet bananas and delicious chocolate. Can you imagine a super tasty dessert that is healthy, sugar-free, white wheat flour-free, and vegan? Yes, this healthy Chocolate Banana Bread is all that and more. This could be your favorite afternoon dessert with a coffee.

Banana Bread is one of the popular new desserts in the last year. I like to bake Banana Bread because it’s an easy recipe and I can use quickly all the remaining ripe bananas. This Chocolate Banana Bread is more delicate than classic because of the added chocolate. It’s still easy to cook and perfect dessert which to enjoy for many days.

Why this Chocolate Banana Bread is The Best?

Sugar-free
Vegan
Easy
Chocolate lovers will love this
Healthy
Filling
Perfect as gift
Naturally sweetened
Soft and fluffy

Pro tips to make Chocolate Banana Bread more delicious:

Use only very overripe bananas. Bananas are the key ingredient for this banana bread recipe, if the bananas will be riper, sweeter, and creamier, then tastier the banana bread will be.
Don’t over-mix the batter if you want to get Banana Bread fluffy and soft. Over-mixing can make it heavy and hard.
Don’t mash the bananas fully, leave the banana pieces or chunks in the batter, because they will make the bread juicier and creamier.
You can use any plant milk which you want such as oat, almond, coconut, etc. Pay attention to whether it’s sweetened or not to not over-sweeten the batter.
You can try to mix oat flour with buckwheat, it could work well.
You can add nuts to the mixture if you want or spread over with them The Banana Bread to get more crispiness.

How to serve Vegan Chocolate Banana Bread?

The secret serving method is to heat it before eating, then it’s super delicious and soft.
You can decorate the banana bread with any kind of your favorite fruits or berries.
You can spread out the peanut butter and berries over the slice of the banana bread.
You can top it with vegan ice cream. This could be the perfect delicate dessert.
You can use any kind of healthy fruit jam. You can top it with healthy homemade chia jam (use any kind of berries, add chia seeds, honey, and oil a couple of minutes, leave to cool).

How to store it?

You can store Chocolate Banana Bread in an airtight container for up to ~ 5 – 6 days in the fridge. You can freeze it as well, but before freezing cut into slices and divide it into portions.

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TIME: 10 min preparation, 45 baking | SERVINGS: 10 – 15 pieces

Ingredients:

4 big ripe bananas + 1 for decoration
200g out flour
2 tsp baking powder
3 tbsp agave syrup or honey
4 tbsp melted coconut oil
100g vegan/sugar-free chocolate
1/2 tsp cinnamon
30ml soy milk

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 180°C, line a rectangle baking tray or loaf tin with baking paper, or grease it with coconut oil.
Take a large bowl and add all dry ingredients – flour, baking powder, and cinnamon. Mix all well.
In a different bowl add peeled bananas, mash them with a fork until you get a smooth mixture, but don’t mash the bananas fully, leave the small chunks.
Add to the banana mixture all wet ingredients – melted coconut oil, soy milk, and agave syrup. Combine the mixture.
Slowly combine both mixtures together, don’t over-mix the batter if you want to get Banana Bread fluffy and soft.
Take a baking tray, add 3/3 of the mixture, and 1/3 set aside in a different bowl.
Melt the chocolate at a very low temperature.
Add the melted chocolate to 1/3 mixture of the batter and mix it into.
Add the chocolate batter to the banana batter, with a teaspoon slowly mix it in or stir it, but nut fully just to get the chocolate layer in some places in the banana batter.
Cut the remaining banana lengthways into slices and top with them the banana bread by pressing into the batter.
Bake for 45 – 55 minutes until ready or toothpick comes out clean.

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Juicy Apple Cake (Sugar-Free)

This is the perfect apple cake – juicy, fruity, and full of sweet apples. If you like apples, cinnamon, and cakes, then this recipe is for you. Sweet, moist and in the same time so soft cake, which will be the perfect dessert for autumn evenings with a warm cup of tea or any time you have a lot of apples at home and don’t know how to use them.

The cake is white refined sugar-free, lactose-free, light, juicy, and sweetened with natural sweetener – honey. Easy and super delicious cake for everyone and any occasion.

This Super Delicious Apple Cake is:

Lactose-free
Juicy & moist
Refined sugar-free
Naturally sweetened
Easy and healthy cake
Perfect fall cake

Tips and notes:

Try to choose the sweetest and juiciest apples to get the most distinct taste for Apple Cake.
Use the lemon juice for the apples don’t turn brown and retain their light color.
You can prepare oat flour yourself by blending oats until you get the consistency of flour.
You can replace oat flour with other healthier flour.
You can add chopped nuts to the cake batter, sprinkle the cake with almond flakes, and with more apple slices.

TIME: 15 – 20 minutes preparing, 45 – 50 minutes baking| SERVINGS: 10 pieces

Ingredients:

900g apples
190g oat flour
3 eggs
60g coconut oil
180g greek style yogurt (vegan/lactose-free)
130g honey
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp lemon juice

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Peel the apple, cut it into slices, and add lemon juice and cinnamon. Stir it.
Prepare the cake tin, grease it, or line it with baking paper and set them aside.
Take a mixing bowl, and add all dry ingredients – oat flour, baking powder, and cinnamon. Combine all well.
In another bowl, add all wet ingredients and use a hand mixer until you get a smooth mixture.
Combine both mixtures (you can still use the hand mixer) and add apple slices.
Pour the apple batter into the cake tin.
Bake the cake for 45-50 minutes at 180°C or until the toothpick comes out clean.

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Vegan Strawberry Cheesecake (sugar-free)

Creamy and light Vegan Strawberry Cheesecake will be the perfect summer cake for any occasion and celebration. This vegan cake is no-bake, refined sugar-free, and lactose-free. Easy to make with two main tools – blender and small saucepan.

Vegan and Sugar-free Strawberry Cheesecake

What are the ingredients? Which can be replaced?

Fresh or frozen strawberries – I used frozen strawberries, but you can use any other berries such as blueberries, cherries, or raspberries. This cake is the perfect summer cake if it’s possible to use fresh berries right from the garden.

Silken tofu is the main ingredient that will give the creaminess to the cake. You can replace it with cashews ~ 230g (soaked in a hot water for at least 30 minutes).

Honey is one of my favorite healthy sweeteners. I have used it a lot, because it contains a variety of nutrients, rich in antioxidants and has many other good benefits. You can replace it with agave syrup, stevia, or coconut sugar.

Coconut milk/cream (canned) is the most popular healthy ingredient for vegan cheesecakes, but you can try to use instead greek style vegan yogurt (sugar-free).

Agar powder is a vegan powder that helps to set the cake, but you can replace it with gelatin (non-vegan).

Sugar-free cookies are one the easiest ingredient to use for making the base of the cake. You can also make the base from oats, dates, and nuts, blending it all in a sticky mixture.

Coconut oil – This ingredient helps stick together the crushed cookies. You can replace half of it with peanut butter and/or plant-based milk.

This delicious Vegan Strawberry Cheesecake is:

Creamy, but light
No-bake
Lactose-free
Banana-free
Easy to make
Refined sugar-free
Healthy dessert
Dairy-free
Nut-free
Vegan
Eggless
Summer dessert

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TIME: 15 min preparation, 4 hours to set or overnight | SERVINGS: 10

Ingredients:

Base:

Sugar-free cookies
70g coconut oil (melted)

Filling:

400g fresh or frozen strawberries
350g silken tofu
100g honey
350ml coconut milk/cream (canned)
2 tbsp agar powder

Instructions:

Make the base. Blend or crush the cookies. Add melted coconut oil and stir together until combined.
Take a cake baking tin and evenly spread it over the cookie mixture, and press it.
Take a blender or food processor and add silken tofu, coconut cream, and honey. Blend all until you get a smooth mixture.
Take a pot, and add strawberries. Boil until they dissolve.
Add agar to the strawberry mixture, boil and stir it in and boil for 2 – 3 minutes until the powder is dissolved.
Now you have to do it all quickly to avoid agar hardening. Add the strawberry and agar mixture to the blender into the coconut and silken tofu mixture. Blend all until you get a smooth pink mixture.
Pour the mixture into the cookie base and put the cake in the fridge to set for at least 4 hours or overnight.
Decorate it with more strawberry sauce (boil berries with sweetener) or fresh fruits and berries.

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Healthy Cherry Cheesecake (No-bake)

Delicious no-bake vegan and refined sugar-free Healthy Cherry Cheesecake with a creamy cherry filling, and crunchy cookie base will be the perfect summer dessert.

This cake is easy to make, because the main tool is blender where you process all the ingredients. Healthy Cherry Cheesecake with no baking has super creamy filling which sets up in the fridge in a couple of hours. Easy, delicious and healthy cake for any occasion.

What tools do you need to make this cake?

Blender or food processor (to make the cake filling)
Cake tin (I used 20cm)
A mixing bowl (to process the cookie mixture with coconut oil)

Notes and tips:

Instead of cherries, you can use strawberries, blueberries or other berries of your choice. You can use fresh or frozen berries, but defrosted and free of excess liquid.
You can use vegan plant-based or lactose-free Greek-style yogurt with no additional sweeteners to retain the natural taste of the cake. Coconut oil is the main ingredient for setting the filling in the fridge. This is the secret ingredient that helps to set the vegan cheesecake without agar-agar or gelatin. 
Cashews make the cake creamy. Soak cashews in hot water at least 10 minutes before using. The more you will soak the cashews the softer they will get and will be easier to blend them.

Healthy Cherry Cheesecake is:

Creamy
No-bake
Lactose-free
Banana-free
Easy to make
Refined sugar-free
Healthy dessert
Vegan

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Ingredients:

TIME: 15 min preparation, 4 hours to set | SERVINGS: 8

Base:

200g sugar-free cookies
70g coconut oil (melted)

Filling:

230g cashews (soaked in a hot water for at least 30 minutes)
110g lactose-free greek or plant based yogurt
75g coconut oil (melted)
150g cherries
80g agave syrup or honey (adjust to taste)

Instructions:

Make the base. Blend or crush the cookies. Add melted coconut oil stir together until combined.
Take a cake baking tin and evenly spread over the cookie mixture, press it.
Take a blender or food processor and add all ingredients – cashews, yogurt, coconut oil, agave syrup and cherries. Blend all until you get a smooth mixture.
Pour over the mixture to the base and put the cake in the fridge to set for at least 4 hours.
Decorate with more cherries or fruits.

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Healthy and Easy Strawberry Banana Cake

This quick and easy Strawberry Banana Cake is a juicy, soft, and sweet treat that you can bake whenever you have at home bananas and strawberries. Easy summer cake loaded with sweet bananas and juicy strawberries. The cake is vegan, refined sugar-free, and lactose-free.

Strawberry Banana Cake is totally sugar-free. I have used only natural sweetener – honey, which makes the cake healthier, but still sweet.

Healthy and Quick Banana Strawberry Cake

What are the main ingredients?

Bananas – Try to use very ripe bananas for maximum sweetness.
Strawberries – I recommend using fresh strawberries because they contain less water. However you can also use frozen strawberries, just make sure to thaw them before using them and get rid of the excess water.
Honey – You can also use agave, date, or maple syrup. Adjust the quantity of sweetener to your taste.
Oat flour – You can mix the flour with rice or buckwheat flour.

This Strawberry Banana Cake is:

Quick to make
Refined sugar-free
Easy to cook
Soft and juicy
Healthy dessert

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TIME: 10 min preparation, 30 min baking | SERVINGS: 16

Ingredients:

100g oat flour
3 ripped banana
150g strawberries
2 eggs
3 tbsp honey
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 tbsp coconut oil
Vegan chocolate chips (optional)

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Mash bananas with a fork, add eggs, coconut oil, and honey, and mix well.
Mix the flour separately with baking powder and soda.
Combine both mixtures together. You can add a bit more flour if you think the mixture too liquid.
Chop strawberries and mix them into the mixture.
Take a rectangular cake pan and spread it with baking paper.
Pour in the cake mixture.
Decorate with strawberry slices, chopped nuts, or chocolate chips.
Bake for 30 minutes.

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Light Yogurt Lemon Cake

Simple cake recipe with only a few main ingredients. Light Yogurt Lemon Cake is easy-to-bake, creamy, and firm with a fresh taste of lemon.

What are the man ingredients?

Eggs – This isn’t a vegan cake, and you will need 4 regular eggs.
Sweetener – I chose coconut sugar, you can choose your favorite healthiest granulated sugar option.
Yogurt – You can choose a good quality greek style or plain lactose-free yogurt (sugar-free). I’m lactose intolerance so I’m always choosing lactose-free products.
Cornflour – You can choose regular cornflour. Cornflour will help to get the cake firm.
Lemon – This ingredient will give the cake a specific fresh lemon taste, you can skip this ingredient if you don’t like the taste of lemon.
Baking powder – You can choose regular baking powder, this will help the cake to bake better and get the best consistency.

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TIME: 10 min preparation, 40 – 45 minutes baking | SERVINGS: 10 pieces

Ingredients:

4 eggs
400g greek/plain lactose-free yogurt
90g – 100g coconut sugar (you can adjust it to taste)
1 tsp baking powder
50g cornflour
1 lemon (optional – gives the taste of lemon)

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 175°C degrees.
Separate egg whites from yolks. Mix the yolks and sugar with a whisk or electric hand mixer until you get the fluffiness.
Add yogurt, cornflour, baking powder, and grated lemon peel to the whipped mixture. Combine until smooth.
In a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer beat the egg whites until you get a thick and foamy mixture, add a 1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice, and beat a bit more.
Add the whipped foams to the yolk and yogurt mixture and combine gently.
Line the cake tin with baking paper and pour it into the mixture.
Bake the cake for 40 – 45 minutes at 175°C.
You can decorate the cake with fresh berries and fruits. Enjoy. 🙂

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