You know when you love something so much you just can’t shut up about it. That’s what is happening here today. I adore this banana bread so much that it deserves more attention. More camera time. A video dedication. And some topping love. You could say I cannot and will not stop, or something like that.
I’m talking about my Maple Cornmeal Banana Bread! Recipe -> here
This recipe is the perfect solution to many of life’s problems like…
I have an entire case of bananas and they are all ripe at the same time and I can’t eat 40 pounds of bananas in 3 days and my freezer isn’t big enough ahhhh! Solution: make this banana bread.
Or I’m going on a road trip and I can’t possibly cram as much fruit in one cooler as I normally eat in a day but restaurant food doesn’t make me feel awesome and I don’t know what to bring!? Solution: make this banana bread.
Or I have an entire jar of peanut butter and if I don’t spread it on something then I will inevitably eat it straight off of a spoon which from past experience I know doesn’t make me feel awesome but I don’t know what to spread it on?! Solution: make this banana bread.
Or I have three quarters of a bag of leftover cornmeal that’s been sitting in my pantry since who knows when and I don’t know what to do with it?! Solution: make this banana bread.
Or I just want some healthy gluten-free and oil-free vegan banana bread with amazing texture and taste. Solution…well you can probably guess by now.
In the midst of making the video some pretty amazing toppings happened too!
This banana bread happens in my kitchen regularly and is always gone in a just a few days. For breakfast with some fruit, dessert with some decadent toppings, or snacking straight up. Oh and in case you were wondering, the chocolate sauce is just cacao powder + date syrup or maple syrup.
Many readers have tried it too! Check out these recreations by @vegetariangastronomy, @dubblyblest, and @be.sol.ful even included it in her December Favorites!
So I’ll stop talking about this magical bread now and just leave you to watch video (in which I talk about this bread some more :))…
Recipe -> here
I hope you try this sweet bread so you can fall in love with it too!
I Love your videos!! I have to write this comment every single time you post a video 🙂 You make food look sooooo good!! I was just going to make your banana bread with the other recipe…but perhaps I should try this one instead 🙂 One thing though – not sure if we have corn meal here..oh no. I know we have corn flour (or starch?!) but it’s just not the same. Will look if I can get it in some specialty store. You’ll see the results then on IG 🙂 And also: LOVE the bread toppings. So much yumminess together 🙂
Hehe thank you dear <3 This video was especially fun, I need to include toppings more often. They were all just things I found hidden in my cabinets, no planning here, but that makes it even better 🙂 Really no cornmeal?? Weird, its everywhere over here, I never would've guessed that'd be hard to find. Well without the cornmeal its really quite similar to the other one. I need to revisit that one too and try your blueberry version, that will be my next loaf. You should post that one soon 🙂 So many banana bread-abilities! Thank you for stopping by Tiina xoxo
Just when I thought it wasn’t possible to make this bread look any more tempting, you go and slather on peanut butter and then some chocolate sauce!?! Holy YUM! I loved reading all the scenarios of reasons to make this…I’ve been guilty of digging into a jar of PB and later regretting it – so I laughed at that one! Well, that one and the leftover cornmeal situation – too funny! As always, loved the video – I can totally see why this banana bread is your favorite!! xo
Smash the PB one and the chocolate one together and you really have something spectacular! And REALLY hard to fit in your mouth hahaha 😀 We’ve all been in the PB jar predicament. Or worse an open jar of justin’s vanilla almond butter :/ Hide the spoons! lol And I have so many half gone bob’s red mill bags in my pantry it’s crazy, always good to use something up. Thank you for watching Mandy, and I hope you don’t mind me including your photo of it in there 🙂
Banana bread!!!!!!! The quintessential sweet quick bread. What would childhood have been like without it???? I remember kids begging me for the banana bread my momma would pack me for lunch….it was the foodie prize of elementary school! So soft and luscious and ….full of banana fun 😉
Actually it was always my mom’s homemade zucchini bread that was in demand at the lunch table when I was growing up. It was kinda famous at my elementary school (it was a really small school). But that’s becusase my mom hates bananas so she rarely made banana bread. But now that’s a good thing because more for me when I do make it 🙂 It is a classic though. Oh and I’m gonna say it again: POST YOURS SOOOOOOOON!!
First, I love the video. You do such a great job with them. Second, yes for cornmeal in banana bread. I put cornmeal in pancakes, waffles, and muffins, now you’ve given me one more thing to put it in. Thanks, Natalie! It looks delicious.
Oh man I just went and searched cornmeal on your site and it’s like a jackpot of delicious things!!! The classic cornbread, that waffle stack, and especially the MUFFINS with blueberries!!!! 😮 😮 You are a long time cornmeal-in-everything baker, I gotta branch out! I love how it adds a slightly savory touch to sweet things. I need those muffins <3
I love all of these topping idea!
Thanks Becky! They were all good in different ways 🙂
I LOVE your videos, like I always say! This is one of my favorites…I really love that you created this awesome bread for all your banana readers, adding the cornmeal is a wonderful idea! Cornmeal is one of my favorite ingredients to spruce up regular textures. I love both the peanut butter and chocolate ones! YUM! SO gorgeous girl!
I’ll just save all the toppings for you and take all the banana for me 😀 Cornmeal is awesome–great texture and just a slightly savory vibe–it’s one of my favorite things too lately. I actually just made another batch of this bread with grated zucchini thrown because I had a leftover zuc from making your cheese sauce!!! I’ll post it on IG soon, in short I LOVE it! Just had it over broccoli and yum yum yum <3
Hahaha, aka THE banana bread that is the answer to all problems a girl can possibly have (especially with all that peanut butter on top), I love it! And your videos rock by the way <3
Exactly! You totally get me 😀 Peanut butter can solve so many food problems–not tasty enough? Add peanut butter haha! Thanks for watching Lucie!
Can I just have ALL THREE? I need this in my life like WOAH. I just ate the last my Vanilla Coconut Cornbread Muffins and I am already craving MORE. I know what I’ll be doing to destress from school…..BAKING.
Of course, but only if you make another batch of those muffins so we can have a proper trade! Nah you have a tough semester, I’ll just give them to you 🙂 I need to get some coconut flour and try those. I’m on a cornmeal kick and those would be a natural next treat! It is the perfect way to destress from school because it also provides mid study snacks for the whole week!
I can’t imagine anything better than banana bread 3 ways!! I love everything about banana bread – so having 3 new ways to enjoy it sounds incredible!!! I loooove the berry pecan – yummy! They all sound so delicious <3
Thanks Harriet! I suppose banana bread 4 ways could be better, but maybe that’s just getting out of hand hahaha 😀 The berry jam one was the first one I went for after I finished photographing, I can’t resist the fruitiness!
These photos are gorgeous! I could make this right now – I have so many overly ripe bananas that I need to use. Except I don’t have tapioca starch – what does it do exactly?
Hi Christina, I’m so glad you like the recipe! The tapioca starch just makes for a better texture when it comes to gluten-free baking, but it is not essential. You can sub cornstarch or leave it out entirely 🙂 Enjoy!
I don’t think I could choose just one way to eat it! Would it be socially acceptable if I had all three? 😉
Oh of course! The question is really just which one to attack first 😉
I’m so glad you reminded me about this banana bread! I remember seeing the insanely delicious looking photo you shared on IG, but being in the throws of morning sickness I never got around to making it. I will definitely have to make it soon!
That’s why I reposted, just for you 🙂 Let me know if you do!