Sugar-free January is off with a bang! I have been really excited so far with this challenge and how my body has reacted. Like I have said before, in my last sugar-free January post (here), I talked about the ‘why’ behind this challenge for me. I do this challenge every year to change my habits, clear my taste buds, and reconnect to whole foods after about 6-months of recipe testing for Christmas. As a recipe developer and food photographer, holiday baking starts in the summer and continues through December. I start working with brands on content in mid-July and typically wrap holiday content by October and then I start for myself! The months of sugar starts altering my tastebud’s sweet receptors. Come January, sweet things are not as sweet as they should be.

One thing that I have been enjoying this month so far has been bananas! I am not someone who gravitates towards bananas for fruit. To me, there are so many more enjoyable fruits. But lately, I have been really into bananas. Bananas and peanut butter on toast, frozen dark chocolate-dipped bananas, and my all-time favorite sugar-free banana bread. I had a realization the other day, my craving for sugar is more craving for snacking when we watch a show after dinner. My go-to after dinner snack is PopZero Cinnamon Toast popcorn. It is an unreal snack! I am a huge cinnamon lover and a huge popcorn fan. I also love to add little chocolate chips when I needed that cinnamon and chocolate fix after dinner. That is where the double chocolate chip banana bread was born.

Let’s Start Baking!

Sugar-Free Double Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

• Author: Paige
• Prep Time: 15 minutes
• Cook Time: 45 minutes
• Total Time: 60 minutes
• Yield: 1 loaf 1x
• Category: sugar-free
• Method: baking

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Description

A deep chocolate take on the best banana bread, but sugar-free! This bread is sweet, rich and full of rich chocolate flavor without the sugar! Not only is this bread sugar-free but it is gluten-free and dairy as well!

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Ingredients

• 1/3 cups of melted vegan butter
• 3/4 cups of maple syrup
• 3/4 cups of almond or cashew milk (I use cashew milk)
• 1 tsp of baking soda
• 1 tsp of baking powder
• 1 tsp of vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp of salt
• 2 ripe bananas
• 1 egg or flax egg
• 1/2 cup of cocoa powder
• 2 1/4 cups of gluten-free flour
• 1/2 cups of chocolate chips

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Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 350°F and grease your loaf pan with vegan butter
2. Melt your vegan butter and add to your bowl
3. Add your maple syrup and almond milk
4. Mix until well combined 
5. Next, add in your vanilla extract, salt, baking powder, baking soda until combined
6. Slowly add in your 1/2 cups of cocoa powder, scraping the sides of the bowls down to make sure nothing is dry
7. Peel and add your ripe bananas to the batter and mix until the banana is broken into smaller pieces, but not fully broken down
8. Add in your gluten-free flour one 1/2 cup at a time and scraping the sides down to ensure all the flour is mixed in
9. Lastly, fold in  your sugar-free dark chocolate chips 
10. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan, level the top and spread to the corners
11. Bake for 45-50 minutes until a toothpick that is inserted comes out clean
12. Enjoy! 

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Notes

*to make a flax egg mix 1 tbsp of ground flax meal and 2.5 tbsp of water, let it sit for 5 minutes to form a thick texture and add to your mix

Keywords: sugar-free double chocolate banana bread

One thing that I want to make clear is that sugar-free January is a personal challenge. I got the funniest call from my grandpa yesterday making sure that I am not giving health advice. He is in fact a doctor so I definitively appreciate his concern. As a food blogger, and recipe developer, I make it very clear that I am not going to give health or nutritional advice on my platform. My expertise is in the development of recipes for flavor, texture and allergies (ie celiac, and gluten-free). The reason that I do this challenge is purely personal. As a blogger, I find it fun, encouraging and more to share my daily adventures with my audience! So from my Grandpa Dr. Joe and I, enjoy this challenge as a personal challenge for yourself!

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