Carrot Banana Bread (Vegan)
Carrot Banana Bread – Moist, tender, and full of flavor, this vegan quick bread recipe makes a healthy and delicious breakfast or snack!
Today I have for you the BEST healthy vegan carrot banana bread recipe that I’ve adapted from my ‘tried and true’ Vegan Banana Bread!
This carrot banana bread is moist with a nice texture, flavor, and density.
The batter can also handle the addition of walnuts and other dried fruits, but for the sake of my daughter, I’ve left those out and put them on top instead.
I have plenty of notes in this recipe, so you can vary it up and change it around when the mood strikes.
Usually, I eat this plain, but it’s made even tastier with a smidge of this Cashew Sweet Cream.
I hope you’ll love this carrot banana bread as much as I do. It’s a keeper and a great way to add in extra vegetables!
Vegan Carrot Banana Bread Ingredients
- 2 cups (280 g) spelt flour
- 1/3 cup (75 g) organic pure cane or coconut sugar
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- generous pinch of salt
- 1/2 cup (113 ml) vanilla or unsweetened almond milk
- 1/4 cup (56 ml) light flavored olive oil or warmed coconut oil (see notes)
- 3 medium bananas
- 3 carrots
- 3/4 cup (86 g) chopped walnuts
Optional Toppings
- sprinkle of raw sugar
- 1/4 cup (29 g) chopped walnuts
How To Make Carrot Banana Bread
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grate your carrots and mash your bananas.
- In a medium mixing bowl, add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt, mixing to combine. In a 2-cup measuring cup, combine the milk, oil, and sugar, mixing to combine.
- Add the oil/sugar mixture and bananas to the dry ingredients, mixing well but not overmixing. Lastly, fold in the carrots.
- Pour the batter into a 9 x 5 loaf pan and sprinkle with optional walnuts.
- Place in the oven and bake for 50 – 55 minutes, until golden brown and the toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Pull from the oven and let cool on a cooling rack.
Now you’re ready to slice and enjoy it often!
Top Tips
- The riper the bananas, the less sugar you’ll need.
- Replace the oil with unsweetened applesauce for oil-free bread. Bread may be a little denser.
- Make it gluten-free by using a GF flour blend such as Bob Red Mills 1-1 GF Flour (affiliate link).
- Fold in 1/3 – 1/2 cup dried fruit of choice. Raisins, currants, cranberries or chopped apricots or dates would work nicely.
I hope you LOVE this easy carrot banana bread as much as we do! It’s:
- Full of flavor
- Super easy to make
- Customizable
- Healthy
- Nutritious
- & So delicious!
This bread is great for snacking or a healthy way to start the day. Pack a slice for on-the-go or make a whole loaf to share with family, friends, and co-workers.
And don’t forget a smear of this vanilla Sweet Cashew Cream. It’s sweetened with dates and is delicious!
More Banana Bread Recipes!
If you love banana bread as much as I do, be sure to take a look at these other fabulous quick bread recipes made with bananas!
- Vegan Banana Bread
- Healthy Blueberry Banana Oat Bread
- Buckwheat Banana Bread (Gluten Free)
- Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
If you try this easy, quick bread recipe, please let me know! Leave a comment and rate it below. I love to hear what you think, or any changes you make.
PrintCARROT BANANA BREAD
Spice up your traditional banana bread with added carrot and cinnamon for a healthy and delicious breakfast or snack!
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 55 min
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Yield: Makes 8 – 10 slices 1x
- Category: Quick Bread
- Method: bake
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegan
Ingredients
- 2 cups (198g) spelt flour (see notes)
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- generous pinch of salt
- 1/3 cup (75 g) sugar (organic pure cane or coconut)
- 1/2 cup (113 ml) unsweetened almond milk (plain or vanilla)
- 1/4 cup (56 ml) light-flavored olive oil or warmed coconut oil (see notes)
- 3 medium bananas, mashed (about 1 1/2 cup (338g))
- 3 carrots, grated (about 1 1/4 cup (125g))
- 3/4 cup (86 g) chopped walnuts, optional
Optional Toppings
- sprinkle of raw sugar
- 1/4 cup (29 g) chopped walnuts
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9 x 5 loaf pan lightly with oil.
Mix: In a large mixing bowl, add flour, cinnamon, baking powder & soda, and salt, mix well with a large slotted spoon or fork. In a small bowl, combine the sugar, milk, and oil, mix well to help the sugar dissolve. Mash the bananas. Add the wet mixture and bananas to the dry ingredients, mix until just combined. Fold in the carrots.
Bake: Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and bake for 50 – 55 minutes on the middle rack, rotate pan halfway through.
Let cool for 10 minutes, remove from pan and let cool completely.
Serve warmed or at room temperature. Slices pair nicely with a slather of this Cashew Sweet Cream.
Store covered on the counter for up to 3 days or in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. Keep in the freezer for up to 3 months – place completely cooled loaves in freezer containers or bags. Thaw the wrapped loaves overnight in the refrigerator.
Serves 9
Notes
Flour: You can use all-purpose or white whole wheat. Make gluten-free by using a 1-1 GF flour blend. Use this King Author Ingredient Weight Chart to convert your specific flour to grams.
Oil-free: Replace the oil with applesauce for oil-free bread. Bread may be a little denser.
The riper the bananas, the less sugar you’ll need. If your bananas are not very ripe, you may like to add a tablespoon or so more.
If you don’t have baking soda on hand, use 1 tablespoon (3 teaspoons) baking powder instead of 2 teaspoons.
If using coconut oil, be sure your milk is at room temperature or warmer. If adding straight from the refrigerator, the cold will harden the coconut oil.
Feel free to leave your carrots unpeeled. I felt mine needed it this time but usually skip this step whenever I can.
Fold in 1/3 – 1/2 cup dried fruit of choice. Raisins, currants, cranberries, or chopped apricots or dates would work nicely.
Add in 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg for another layer of flavor and variation.
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Super delicious and so easy to make! A definite keeper!
Wonderful recipe! Omitted the sugar but it turned out less sweet than I wanted, should have added it. Took 55mins exactly to bake. End result was moist, fluffy and yummy!
Pretty dang yummy! However, it seems too wet after baking 55 minutes, even though my toothpick was clean.
I used a 1/4 cup of coconut sugar instead of 1/3, 1 tbsp of coconut oil and 3 tbsp of applesauce, instead of the full 1/4 cup of oil. I added 3 Tbsp of reduced-fat, shredded coconut, 1 tbsp of flax meal, 1/3 cup total of raisins and chopped dates + 1/2 cup of pecans and walnuts. Added nutmeg & ground ginger, too!
Could it be that using applesauce and dried fruits are adding in too much moisture?
I made some of that sweet cashew cream to slather on top & that was just heavenly!
Is there any substitution for the almond milk?
Use your favorite plant milk or water. Let us know how you liked the recipe, enjoy!
I’m making this as we speak. Oven preheated everything mixed up but, it looks super dry. It’s not a batter. It’s really dry. I used coconut flour and brown sugar. Help lmao
Add more liquid, is coconut flours fault , it does require a lot more liquid
As Tabita mentioned, it’s the coconut flour. It’s a tricky flour to work with in vegan baking. I don’t recommend using it as a sub unless it’s mentioned specifically. Hopefully the loaf will not be too bad, and at least edible. If you try again with a different gluten free flour, I recommend using blend that can be used 1 – 1 for regular flour.
Made the banana and blueberry bread it was so delicious and easy thank you.
Didnt have bananas so used 1 cup of applesauce instead, tasted amazing but unfortunately the bread didnt rise at all :/ Should I have used less applesauce? or maybe lowered the milk to 1/3 cup? Not sure what happened
I’ve made this twice now – always works out well. Second time around i added walnuts on top, but they burned! Not sure why mine did and yours didn’t? Had to scrape them off, the rest of the bread was delicious. Any tips on how to stop the walnuts burning?
Glad the loaf is working well for you! I would suggest covering the top halfway through baking to keep the walnuts from burning. Not sure why mine didn’t burn, but ovens do vary. Hope that helps!
Perfect texture and taste amazing. I used apple sauce and dates to substitute oil and sugar and it turned out great. I also added 50gr of chopped dates in the batter and I topped with walnuts. Baby approved too ,thanks for the great recipe
Needed to use up some bananas and thought I’d give this a try with the carrots. Needless to say it’s wonderful! Thanks for this great recipe!
Hi :)
Is it possible to make it a carrot bread only only?
Thank you!
Hi Shiri, great question! I’ve never made it without the bananas, replacing with another ingredient, so I can’t say for sure. You could try using applesauce in place of bananas, but I can’t guarantee that it will turn out the same. It may be a bit denser. Please let us know if you try and what changes you made. Hope that helps, and good luck! :)
Hi Julie :) Thank you so much for your quick and helpful reply! I discovered your blog only yesterday. I feel that I owe it to your amazing posts to first try the recipe as it is. But if I do try to make it only with carrots I’ll surely comment here with an update!
I usually wait to try things from a blog before recommending it to friends, but yours was an exception and I’ve already shared it with others :) So many simple and varied things to make! Can’t wait to start using your recipes! Thank you so much for your hard work!! :D