Paleo Banana Bread with Sunflower Butter and Chocolate Chips, Gluten-free
This Paleo banana bread is a satisfying, moist, and flavorful gluten-free banana bread. filled with chocolate chips and sunflower butter swirls.
Have you tried sunflower seed butter and chocolate together? WOW. The flavor combination great. We love it so much that we added it to our favorite dairy-free and gluten-free banana bread recipe.
This Paleo banana bread is filled with chocolate chips and sunflower butter swirls. It is also made with healthier for you ingredients like almond flour, tapioca flour, coconut sugar, and olive oil. If you like recipes with sunflower butter, try our Chocolate Covered Pumpkin Stuffed Dates or Breakfast Banana Sushi recipes.
What makes this recipe great
Sunflower seed butter is considered an allergy friendly food because it is free of peanuts, tree nuts, soy, milk, eggs, wheat, fish, and crustacean shellfish. AKA the top 8 most common allergies. (Make sure the company you buy it from guarantees this)
It is a great “peanut butter” alternative for those who are allergic, like myself. We're actually allergic to all nuts except for almonds, which is why you won’t see any recipes with other nuts here.
Recipe ingredients
- olive oil– or avocado oil.
- coconut sugar– or maple sugar or brown sugar ( brown sugar is not Paleo).
- eggs– make sure to use large eggs.
- vanilla– this gives a nice flavor to the bread.
- bananas– make sure they are ripe!
- almond flour– blanched almond flour is best because it is more refined in texture.
- tapioca flour– this is a great gluten-free flour to use in baking.
- coconut flour– this mixes with almond flour and tapioca flour well.
- baking soda– this helps the banana bread to rise.
- cinnamon– this works well to enhance flavors.
- sunflower seed butter– use your favorite brand.
- dairy-free chocolate chips– Enjoy Life, Trader Joes, or Hu chocolate brands are all dairy-free and gluten-free. Hu chocolate is Paleo.
See recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements.
Step by step instructions
Step 1
Step 1: Mix the olive oil and coconut sugar together.
Step 2
Step 2: Add the mashed banana, vanilla and eggs to the bowl and mix.
Step 3
Step 3: In a separate bowl mix the almond flour, tapioca flour, coconut flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon together.
Step 4
Step 4: Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and fold in chocolate chips.
Step 4
Step 4: Swirl sunflower butter into the banana bread.
Step 5
Step 5: Bake until golden.
Step 6
Step 6: Slice and serve.
Recipe FAQs
How do you store this banana bread?Keep the banana bread at room temperature on the counter and covered for 3 days. You can also refrigerate it for 5-6 days.
What can we use instead of sunflower butter?You can use peanut butter (not Paleo), pumpkin seed butter or tahini instead.
Can you add nuts?Yes! Feel free to add any nuts of your choice such as walnuts or pecans.
Prep 10 minutesCook 55 minutesTotal 1 hour 5 minutesMakes 8
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar, ( or maple sugar)
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 2 large bananas, mashed (or 3 smallish bananas)
- 1 1/4 cup almond flour
- 1/2 cup tapioca flour
- 2 Tbs coconut flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 4 Tbs sunflower seed butter
- 1 cup dairy-free chocolate chips, ( we used 1/2 mini and 1/2 mega chunks )
Method
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9 in x 5 in loaf pan and line with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, mix the olive oil and coconut sugar with a fork or whisk. Add the eggs, vanilla, and mashed bananas and whisk again until well mixed.
- In another bowl, combine the almond flour, tapioca flour, coconut flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Mix with a fork until blended.
- Pour the bowl of dry ingredients into the bowl of wet ingredients and mix until just combined. Fold in chocolate chips.
- Pour 1/2 of the banana bread batter into the loaf pan. Drizzle with 2 Tbs sunflower seed butter. Then, add the other 1/2 of batter on top of that and drizzle with 2 Tbs sunflower seed butter. Use a knife to make swirls with the sunflower seed butter.
- Bake for 50-55 minutes, until golden brown and a toothpick comes out mostly clean.
Notes
- You can use peanut butter (not Paleo), pumpkin seed butter or tahini instead of sunflower butter,
