Mini Cinnamon Coffee Cake Vegan Banana Bread
This Mini Cinnamon Coffee Cake Vegan Banana Bread is tender and delicious. It’s got the loveliest crumb that is soft and full of moisture. This plant based recipe has loads of delicious sweet cinnamon flavour due to the cinnamon sugar ripple throughout the coffee cake banana bread! YUM. Plus they’re adorable and mini sized. Mini loaf cakes are perfect to take on the go because they’re portion sized. So this recipe is perfect for outdoor activities like summer picnics!
The recipe for this Mini Cinnamon Coffee Cake Vegan Banana Bread came about because I watched Seinfeld recently and saw the Drake’s coffee cake episode. You seen it?? Well it certainly gave me a hankering for some coffee cake. But then I decided that I wanted to make it a bit healthier and make it vegan, so I made it a banana bread version! This allowed the coffee cake to be sweetened by banana instead of just sugar. But it also added lovely moisture and texture in replacing the traditional eggs. And then I decided to make them cute mini size because who doesn’t love a cute mini loaf cake?? I know I sure do!
This Mini Cinnamon Coffee Cake Vegan Banana Bread is super quick and easy to make. It also doesn’t require a lot of fancy ingredients which is great! This recipe is healthier than many banana breads or coffee cake recipes. It is low in fat, and it uses almond flour and spelt. Those two flour varieties are much better for you than all purpose flour! This recipe can be made refined sugar free as well if you like, but coconut sugar does change the flavour a bit because coconut sugar has a stronger flavour than regular light muscovado sugar. My recipe for Healthy Chocolate Tahini Vegan Banana Bread is also a delicious healthier dessert if you’re a big chocolate fan!
So next time you’ve got overripe bananas and don’t know what to do with them, you should definitely make this recipe!! It’s sooo good. Let me know what you think of this recipe if you make it, I love hearing feedback. 🙂 Enjoy!
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Mini Cinnamon Coffee Cake Vegan Banana Bread
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup neutral oil
- ⅓ cup plant yogurt the yogurt I used had a runnier consistency, it wasn't thick like greek yogurt
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 400 g mashed ripe bananas
- ½ cup light muscovado sugar, packed or coconut sugar for refined sugar free
- 200 g spelt flour 1 ⅔ cup
- 32 g almond flour ⅓ cup
- ½ tbsp ceylon cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- pinch of salt
Cinnamon Sugar Ripple
- ¼ cup half and half brown and white sugar or just brown sugar if desired
- 1 tbsp ceylon cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 175℃ and grease mini loaf pans. I have a mini loaf pan silicon tray which I love.
- Thoroughly mash the bananas. I used an electric hand mixer but that is optional.
- Mix in the rest of the wet ingredients and mix well.
- Then sift in all of the dry ingredients in another mixing bowl and use a balloon whisk to incorporate the dry ingredients together.
- Pour the dry ingredients over to the wet ingredients and mix until just combined. Do not over mix then you will get gummy and flat banana bread!
- Mix together the cinnamon and sugar ripple in a small bowl.
- Start by filling the loaf tray half way, then sprinkle a layer of the cinnamon sugar mixture. Pour over the rest of the batter and then top each mini loaf with more cinnamon sugar.
- Bake the mini loaf cakes about 35 minutes depending on the form you used and on your oven. They are done when they've got lovely colour and a cake tester comes out mostly clean.