This easy dairy free coconut bread is a healthier version of the Caribbean classic, with shredded coconut, whole wheat flour, and coconut sugar.
Course Snack
Cuisine Vegetarian
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 1 hourhour
Total Time 1 hourhour10 minutesminutes
Servings 1loaf
Ingredients
2 ½cupswhole wheat pastry flour
1 ¼cupshredded dried coconut
2 ½teaspoonsbaking powder
½teaspoonground nutmeg
½teaspoonsalt
½cupcoconut sugar
2free-range eggs
1teaspoonvanilla
½cupcoconut milk
⅓cupcoconut oilmelted
1overripe bananamashed with a fork
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 350F and grease a standard bread tin with coconut oil. You can also line it with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, mix the flour, coconut, baking powder, nutmeg, salt, and coconut sugar.Lightly beat the eggs in a medium sized bowl. Add the coconut milk, vanilla, banana, and coconut oil. Try to add the coconut oil at the last minute because it will quickly solidify once it's mixed into the cold ingredients.
Make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients, then add the wet ingredients and mix just to combine. Spoon the mixture into the bread tin and level it. Bake for one hour or until a toothpick is inserted and comes out clean. Cool in the tin for five minutes before placing on a cooling rack.
Once the bread is entirely cool, wrap it in tin foil or plastic wrap and leave it overnight before eating it. You can eat it fresh but it's so much better if you let it sit over night. My eggs have a deep yellow yolk and make the bread quite yellow, so yours may look a little different.
This bread freezes fabulously, and it might even be better after it's been frozen!