Keto Banana Bread

This Keto Banana Bread recipe is a moist bread with a soft crumb, crunchy nuts, and delicious banana flavors with only 3.3 grams of net carbs per slice!

Are Bananas Bread Keto-Friendly?

We all crave banana bread at some point on our keto journey. Unfortunately, bananas are not really keto-friendly fruits. as result, classic banana bread is almost never keto-friendly.

In fact, 100 grams of banana contains 23 grams of carbs, and knowing that you are generally trying to restrict your carbs intake to 25 grams per day.

This makes it rather difficult to include bananas on a keto diet.

However, there are options to make moist, flavorsome sugar-free banana bread without real bananas!

My easy keto banana bread recipe is here to fix all your banana cravings. Let me share with you how to make it!

How To Make Keto Banana Bread

All you need to make a banana bread keto-friendly is a few 100% keto ingredients.

Ingredients

There’s no high-carbs mashed banana but a good balance of wet and dry ingredients to achieve the same moist crumb as if there were a banana in your bread.

And the secret ingredient to make this keto bread taste like bananas is banana extract!

• Almond flour – use ultra-fine white almond flour, not an almond meal, or the bread would be dense and gritty. Learn more about keto-friendly flours.
• Coconut flour – the combination of both flours creates the best keto banana bread crumb texture. In fact, coconut flour adds texture to the bread and prevents the crumb from getting too moist.
• Baking Powder or replace by half the amount of baking soda by swapping 3 teaspoons of baking powder with 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking soda. Careful, baking soda can add a slightly bitter aftertaste to your banana bread!
• Pure Banana extract – that’s how you give the banana flavor to your banana bread without mashed bananas. Make sure you are using natural extract as an artificial extract flavor fades in the oven.
• Unsweetened almond milk
• Melted butter – measure the butter is melted for precision! The recipe also works with melted coconut oil if you are dairy-free. Butter is always keto-friendly.
• Erythritol – I usually use classic crystal erythritol, but if you can find golden erythritol at the supermarket, use 1/2 cup classic white erythritol and 1/4 cup golden erythritol. The combination of both keto sweeteners adds a lovely earthy flavor to the banana bread.
• Walnuts and Pecan nuts – finely chopped. This recipe is loaded with crunchy nuts, and believe me, the combination of chopped walnuts and pecan nuts creates the best keto banana nut bread ever.
• Vanilla extract

Instructions

This banana bread keto-style recipe is the easiest banana recipe ever!

All you have to do is combine the wet ingredients in one bowl, making sure they are all at room temperature, of course, or the butter can ‘burn’ the eggs.

Also, measure the butter once melted for precision.

Then, in another bowl, whisk all the dry ingredients to remove any lumps of flour and create a consistent blend of ground ingredients.

Finally, pour the dry ingredients onto the wet ingredients and combine with a spoon until the batter is thick, moist, but not overly runny or thick.

Stir in the chopped nuts at the end, or swap nuts for 1/2 cup of sugar-free chocolate chips if you want to make a keto chocolate chip banana bread recipe!

Baking Keto Banana Bread

Bake your banana bread in a preheated oven at 350°F (180°C) for about 60 minutes in total or until a pick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean.

I recommend tenting the loaf pan with a piece of foil after 20 minutes of baking to prevent the top of the bread from browning too fast.

Serving Banana Bread

This banana bread keto almond flour recipe must cool down completely before cutting into slices.

I recommend 3 hours of cooling down on a rack to give time for the bread crumb to set and the extra moisture to steam out.

In fact, slicing this bread too early will result in crumbly bread, so be patient!

The best ways to eat this almond flour banana keto bread are:

• Plain
• Toasted with butter – spread fresh butter on your bread.
• Chia seed jam – make my keto jam recipe and serve it on top of your bread.
• Peanut butter or almond butter

Storage Instructions

Store your bread in the pantry on a cake box for up to 3 or 4 days. Slice before serving to keep the bread crumb moist.

Enjoy it for breakfast, teatime, plain, or with sugar-free chia seed jam.

You can also freeze the bread slices in an airtight box making sure the slices don’t overlap (or place a piece of parchment paper between each slice to make it easier to defrost individually.

Defrost the slice the day before at room temperature, on a plate without overlaps.

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