Espresso Chocolate Chip Banana Bread (Paleo, Dairy-free, Gluten-free)
Espresso Chocolate Chip Banana Bread recipe. A decadent and moist banana bread laced with espresso and chocolate flavors and made with healthier-for-you ingredients like almond flour and coconut sugar.
This Espresso Chocolate Chip Banana Bread has been my morning guilty pleasure. It’s got a wonderful subtle espresso flavor, along with lots of banana and chocolate flavors as well. NOM.
It tastes like a banana chocolate chip cake.
BUT it’s made without refined flours, refined sugars or dairy.
It’s actually made with healthier ingredients such as almond flour, coconut sugar and olive oil, but you’d never know it by the taste.
I bought A LOT of instant espresso during the whole Dalgona Coffee craze that happened this past year.
I do like to use it in brownies or in chili. BUT its not something I do that often.
I also have not been making dalgona coffees all that often anymore either, so I wanted to try using it in something different.
Like in banana bread. This Espresso Chocolate Chip Banana Bread.
Ingredients needed to make this Espresso Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
- olive oil
- coconut sugar
- eggs
- vanilla
- bananas
- instant espresso powder
- almond flour
- tapioca flour
- coconut flour
- baking soda
- salt
- chocolate chips
Ingredient tips:
- Make sure your bananas are ripe. This makes a difference in the flavor of the banana bread overall.
2. Use a brand of espresso powder that you like. I personally like Medaglia D Oro Instant Espresso.
3. Lots of dairy-free chocolate chips, such as Enjoy life, aren’t technically Paleo. So if you are looking for a true Paleo alternative, try HU Chocolate.
4. Make sure your almond flour, tapioca flour, and coconut flour are good quality. For example, I think fine blanched almond flour works best in baking. Also, I love ALL of Anthony’s goods products and use their flours in all of my baking.
How to make healthy espresso banana bread
To start, you mix the olive oil and coconut sugar together. Then you add the eggs, vanilla, mashed bananas, and espresso powder to the bowl and mix.
In another bowl, you mix all the dry ingredients together ( the almond flour, tapioca flour, coconut flour, baking soda, and salt).
Then, you add the dry ingredients to the bowl of wet ingredients and mix. Then fold in some chocolate chips.
Lastly, you pour the banana bread into a pan and bake!
I like to eat this banana bread when it is still warm, but you can wait until it is cooled to eat it as well.
How to serve this Paleo Chocolate Chip Banana Bread:
For starters, you can serve this Espresso Chocolate Chip Banana Bread all by itself, because it tastes amazing as is.
However, I love adding almond butter or sunflower seed butter to my banana bread.
I also love making french toast out of banana bread… if you haven’t tried this, you need to!
And lastly, I love eating this Paleo Banana bread with coffee or tea. NOM.
Other healthy banana breads you may enjoy:
This Healthy Banana Bread by The Clean Eating Couple is made with whole wheat flour and apple sauce and looks perfectly moist and delicious!
This Pumpkin Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread (Paleo, Gluten-free, Dairy-free) has a great pumpkin taste with coffee cake cinnamon swirled throughout.
This Sunflower Seed Butter and Chocolate Chip Banana Bread (Paleo, GF) has the ultimate sunflower seed butter and chocolate flavor.
If you like carrot cake, you will love this Paleo Carrot Cake Banana Bread (GF)!
This Cranberry Orange banana bread is full of great flavors and is great on a crisp day.
Espresso Chocolate Chip Banana Bread (Paleo, Dairy-free, Gluten-free)
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar or maple sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 2 large ripe bananas mashed
- 2 Tbs instant espresso powder
- 1 1/4 cup almond flour
- 1/2 cup tapioca flour
- 2 Tbs coconut flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup dairy-free chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9 in x 5 in loaf pan and line with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, mix the olive oil and coconut sugar with a fork or whisk. Add the eggs, vanilla, mashed bananas and espresso powder and whisk again.
- In another bowl, combine the almond flour, tapioca flour, coconut flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix with a fork until blended.
- Pour the bowl of dry ingredients into the bowl of wet ingredients and mix until just combined. Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Pour the banana bread batter into the loaf pan. Bake for 45 minutes, until golden brown and a toothpick comes out mostly clean.
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6 Comments on “Espresso Chocolate Chip Banana Bread (Paleo, Dairy-free, Gluten-free)”
Thank you for this sensational tasting recipe! I enjoyed making them into individual muffins and then when it came time to eating them, with each bite I drizzled a little bit of tahini. Delicious!
Ooohhh I love the sound of drizzled tahini on top!
Mine did not turn out as visually appealing as yours, but the flavor was all there! It was nice and light and tasted like cake! I thought the espresso might be overbearing when I tasted the raw batter, but once it was cooked, it was perfect! My little ones asked for a piece of the “brownie,” and they loved it, too!
Very happy to hear it! Love that they called it a brownie! haha
I’ve made this about 20 times since my first review, and it’s beautiful now! I always put chocolate chips on top before baking it. Mine bakes in less than 45 minutes in my oven. Everyone loves it and asks for the recipe! I’ve also made your cinnamon swirl, which is delicious as well!
I’m so so glad!! Thanks for letting me know!