Healthy 5-Ingredient Flourless Banana Bread that’s moist, oaty and naturally sweetened with maple syrup.
Simple, Delicious Flourless Banana Bread
Want to enjoy banana bread without gluten, sugar or specialty ingredients? This Healthy 5-Ingredient Flourless Banana Bread is simple, delicious and so easy to make. You’ll fall in love with how easy this loaf is to bake and how great you can feel about eating it often for breakfast or a snack.
Gluten Free, Okay by Me!
My mom inspired me to create a few more flourless baked goods, like this flourless banana bread recipe, that I can bake for people who don’t or can’t eat gluten.
So it got me thinking, what are some classics that need to be reinvented without flour? Banana bread came to mind. It’s a breakfast favorite!
This gluten-free banana bread recipe is also dairy-free, which can be another tricky ingredient for sensitive digestive systems. I don’t use almonds (or almond flour), walnuts, or pecans in my recipe, either, so no worries for those with nut allergies. And with no added salt, it’s low in sodium, too. And still, it’s incredibly delicious!
Watch Me Make Flourless Banana Bread!
5-Ingredient Simple
I kept this recipe so simple that anyone can successfully bake it and so healthy you’d never believe it by how great it still tastes. Just 5 ingredients! And ones that you probably always have on hand: oatmeal, bananas, eggs, maple syrup and baking soda. That’s it, y’all!
No white or brown sugar, baking powder, specialty gluten-free flour flours or coconut oil. And, in case simplicity is your thing, skip the bowl and the whisk. With this recipe, there’s no need to stir. You just blend all of the wet ingredients and dry ingredients together in your blender, pour the batter into a loaf pan and bake.
It’s one of those recipes I can bake amidst the craziness of a weekday morning and we can enjoy it warm right out of the oven before rushing out the door for the day. It’s also great the next day and the next as the sugars in the bananas continue to release and make the bread even more moist and sweet.
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Flourless Banana Bread Ingredients and Supplies?
(see recipe card at the bottom of this post for measurements and details)
Ingredients:
- Ripe bananas
- Large eggs
- Pure maple syrup (or honey)
- Baking soda
- Old-fashioned rolled oats
Supplies:
- 9×5-inch loaf pan
- Blender
How to Make Healthy 5-Ingredient Flourless Banana Bread
- First, preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease 9×5-inch loaf pan with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.
- Add all ingredients to a blender, in the order listed, and blend until smooth and well combined.
- Pour batter into prepared loaf pan. (Garnish the top of the batter with thinly sliced banana, if desired) Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Let loaf cool completely in loaf pan. Store bread in an airtight container on the counter for 2-3 days or in the refrigerator for up to a week. That’s it!
How to Store Flourless Banana Bread
Store bread in an airtight container at room temperature for 2 days or in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
To freeze, wrap tightly in plastic wrap and then place in a freezer safe baggie or wrap in a layer of foil. Freeze for up to two months. Thaw, loosely covered, at room temperature.
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I LOVE the texture of this loaf! It’s super moist yet still has a hearty oaty texture from the ground oats. Maple syrup and ripe bananas act as the sweeteners and are one of my favorite flavor combos. Have you ever dipped banana slices in a little maple syrup as a snack?! So delicioso!
You’ll fall in love with how easy this loaf is to bake and how great you can feel about eating it often for breakfast or a snack. I have the recipe memorized to where I can actually have it in the oven before my coffee even finishes brewing in the morning. That’s my kind of recipe, y’all! Hope you enjoy it too!
If you make my 5-Ingredient Flourless Banana Bread, be sure to snap a picture and share it with me or tag me on Instagram @thebakermama so I can see. 
I love seeing how inspired and creative y’all get with the recipes I share. Enjoy!
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Healthy 5-Ingredient Flourless Banana Bread
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins
- Total Time: 35 mins
- Yield: 10
- Category: Breakfast
Description
Just 5 ingredients to make this healthy loaf of banana bread that’s moist, oaty and naturally sweetened with maple syrup.
Ingredients
- 3 medium ripe bananas
- 2 large eggs
- 1/4 cup pure maple syrup (or honey)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease 9×5-inch loaf pan with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.
- Add all ingredients to a blender, in the order listed, and blend until smooth and well combined. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan. (Garnish the top of the batter with thinly sliced banana, if desired) Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Let loaf cool completely in loaf pan. Store bread in an airtight container on the counter for 2-3 days or in the refrigerator for up to a week.
Notes
3 medium bananas is about 1-1/4 cups mashed banana or 1 pound.
Oven temperatures vary so just make sure you test it with a toothpick to make sure it’s baked all the way through. Mine usually takes right at 30 minutes, but others have said theirs takes closer to 40-45 minutes.
Try not to over-blend the batter as this will cause the oats to warm and start cooking into oatmeal which will prevent the loaf from baking with a bread-like texture.
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This is definitely a winner! I added a half cup of no fat Greek yogurt and walnuts on top. Thank you for this. I will try the pumpkin bread next.
Great recipe! Thanks so much!! Added some applesauce and shredded “real” coconut on top. Used honey, did not have maple syrup. Delicious!! Not too sweet, my husband loved it!
It came out perfectly with 2 bananas! And it tastes delicious! One more easy gf baked good added to my repertoire! Thank you!
Yay! So glad. Enjoy! 🙂
This looks great! I have some bananas that need to be used up. However, I only have 2 bananas now. I ate the third one shortly before finding this recipe 🙁 Would I need to change anything to accommodate for one less banana?
Hi Ashton! If your bananas are larger, you’ll probably be fine. You need at least a cup of mashed banana. If not, you could add some applesauce, canned pumpkin, or apple to make up for it. Hope this helps. Enjoy!
Hello,
Can I use steel cut oats instead?
Hi! I tried this recipe and it came out wonderful! I’m trying to cut sugar so do you know how many grams of natural sugar it has per serving from the bananas and syrup?
Thanks for sharing this great recipe!
Donna
Hi Donna! I don’t know, but you could plug the exact ingredients you use into a free online nutrition calculator that could hopefully calculate it for you. Just google “free online nutrition calculator”. Hope this helps! Enjoy!
Hi Rachel! I haven’t tried it yet, but I think if they’re ground really well, they should work great. Maybe try grinding them first before blending them with the rest of the ingredients to make the bread batter. Let me know how it turns out. Enjoy!
I just came across this blog while searching for Banana Bread recipe, I was wanting to avoid sugar so was looking for healthy option. I was intrigued by this 5 ingredients recipe so gave it a try.. Amazing results already baked it twice now. Thank you for this lovely recipe. I will be visiting this site so very often now 🙂
Yay, Deepee! I’m so happy you found my 5-ingredient banana bread recipe and that you love it as much as I do! Enjoy! 🙂
Any idea on what the nutrition facts are for this?
Hi Jason! I don’t provide nutritional information, but you can easily calculate it yourself by plugging the exact ingredients you use into a free online nutrition calculator. There are several out there. Hope this helps.
I just made this and thanks so much for sharing! Mine turned out great and it’s less of a cake (like most quick breads tend to be) and more like a bread ???? and that’s what I was looking for exactly when trying out quick bread recipes.
To be honest, I humbly admitted I did not follow the recipe to a T. I already have oat flour on hand (store bought, organic) so I gave the blending step a miss. All I used was a bowl and a fork. Mashed the bananas with a fork, add eggs and beat them together like I would to make an omelette, added 2T maple syrup and 2T date syrup (only because I ran out of maple syrup) and continue mixing with a fork.
Then I added the oat flour and here is where I steered from the recipe, I used 1tsp of homemade baking powder instead of baking soda just because I felt I needed the bread to rise more and since this recipe doesn’t call for any acids I guess I could ditch the soda altogether.
I did top the bread with sliced banana and threw in some roasted cashew.
This bread is so easy with so few healthy ingredients and tasty and I look forward to baking it again in near future and may play around with the add ins.
Thanks for providing a base for an easy GF banana bread, something me and my son (both of us GI) can enjoy.
How much oat flour did you use?
This sounds delicious! Can I substitute to egg with something?
Hi An! I usually recommend 1/4 cup mashed banana or 3 tablespoons applesauce in place of 1 egg in baked goods, but for this recipe, I would recommend replacing the egg with 1 teaspoon of baking soda mixed with 1 tablespoon of white vinegar to get the leavening benefits that the egg provides. Hope this helps. Enjoy!