Gingerbread Banana Bread is the perfect combination of classic banana bread and all of the seasonal gingerbread flavors! Gluten free gingerbread with no sugar cream cheese frosting will be your family’s new holiday favorite!
Gingerbread Banana Bread
What is almost as good as banana bread but has all of those Christmas feels? Banana bread turned gingerbread!
Gingerbread is one of my favorite holiday flavors so it just makes sense to combine it with this year’s bake at home star, banana bread.
This healthy gingerbread loaf is so easy to make and perfect for gifting during the holiday season. I assure you your house will smell like Santa’s workshop when you are baking this baby up!
📋 Ingredients – What You Need To Make Healthy Ginger Banana Bread
Here is what you need:
For The Ginger Banana Bread Dry Ingredients:
- gluten free flour – I recommend either Bob’s Red Mill gluten free 1-1 baking flour or King Arthur flour gluten free all purpose flour. Both measure at one-for-one compared to all purpose flour and provide a great texture for gluten free breads.
- baking soda + salt
For The Bread Wet Ingredients:
- coconut sugar – coconut sugar is a delicious natural sugar used for baking. You can also use raw honey or maple syrup if you prefer banana bread with no sugar.
- dairy free or greek yogurt – I used Forager dairy free yogurt for this recipe. If dairy is not an issue for you, I recommend using any vanilla greek yogurt.
- eggs
- coconut oil
- vanilla extract
- ripe bananas
- molasses – I used black strap molasses for this recipe
- cinnamon, cloves and ginger
🔪 Instructions – How To Make Banana Bread with Molasses
Here is how you make it:
1. Combine the coconut oil + sugar. Mix these two together until well incorporated.
2. Eggs. Add in the eggs, one at a time until fully incorporated.
3. Yogurt + Vanilla. Add in these to wet ingredients and mix well.
4. Bananas. Add in mashed bananas and mix until mostly smooth – a few lumps are OK.
5. Gingerbread time! Add in the molasses and spice mix
6. Dry Ingredients. Mix or sift together the gluten free flour, baking soda and salt.
7. Dry into Wet. Add the dry ingredients to the bowl of wet ingredients in three parts, mixing slowly each time.
8. Into the oven! Line a bread pan with parchment and spray it with coconut oil spray. Spoon the batter into the pan and place in the oven.
💭 Helpful Tips – How To Make the Perfect Healthy Gingerbread Loaf
This loaf is delicious topped with cream cheese frosting! Here is how you make it:
How to Make Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 2 ounces Neufchatel cream cheese
- 1 tablespoon Lakanto Monkfruit, Powdered
- ½ teaspoon oat milk
Mix together with a fork and spread over cooled loaf.
Other Healthy Breads For You To Try!
Each of these bread recipes are healthy and family approved!
- Healthy Zucchini Bread
- Healthy Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
- Instant Pot Cornbread
- Banana Bread Mini Loaves
- Healthy Carrot Cake Bread
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📋 Recipe
Gingerbread Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 2 cups gluten free flour
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup coconut sugar
- ¼ cup coconut oil softened
- 3 ripe bananas mashed
- ⅓ cup dairy free or vanilla greek yogurt
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 ½ teaspoon ginger
- ½ teaspoon cloves
- 2 tablespoon molasses
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Prepare a bread pan with a piece of parchment paper fitted like a sling. Spray with coconut oil spray.
- To a medium bowl add flour, baking soda and salt. Stir with a whisk and set aside.
- Add coconut sugar and coconut oil in a large bowl and whisk until well blended. Add eggs one at a time and whisk well. Add in the bananas, yogurt and vanilla and whisk until blended.
- Stir in molasses and spices. Mix well.
- Add the dry ingredient mix in 3 parts, until just blended. Spoon the batter into the prepared bread pan.
- Bake at 350F for 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes in the pan then lift the parchment sling out to fully cool on a cooling rack.
- See notes for directions on making cream cheese frosting.
Notes
- 2 ounces Neufchatel cream cheese
- 1 tablespoon Lakanto Monkfruit, Powdered
- ½ teaspoon oat milk
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