Hello there! Today’s recipe is a wonderfully delicious and easy-to-make quick bread that only has nine ingredients.

It also has no eggs, no butter, is refined sugar-free and is coincidentally vegan too. I didn’t mean to make that happen, but it did.

The resulting bread has a satisfying crispy crust that’s almost toasty in flavour and a dense, yet tender inside dotted with creamy dates pieces and crunchy walnuts in a sweet (but not too sweet) banana bread.

The Medjool dates give this bread a scrumptious rich caramelized flavour that you need to try!

I hope you enjoy this recipe for Date Banana Nut Bread!

How to make this make this banana bread?

Place the Medjool dates into a food processor and blend until it forms a soft paste. Full ingredient amounts and complete instructions listed in the recipe card down below.

Stir together the date paste, mashed bananas, and hot water together until well combined. In an another bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients until well-distributed (not shown).

Add the banana-date mixture to the dry ingredients and whisk to combine.

Tip: Whisk until just-combined (no more dry ingredients can be seen). Over-mixing may result in a tougher bread.

Fold in the walnuts and then place it in a parchment-paper lined loaf pan.

Top with extra walnuts. Bake at 350 degrees F for 60-75 minutes until a wooden skewer (or cake tester) comes out clean.

Note: The bread cracks slightly on top. I covered some of it with walnuts (because I was poking that area with a skewer to test for doneness), but it looks great either way.

Looking for more desserts made in a loaf pan? Check out these two!

• Strawberry Lemon Yogurt Quick Bread: This bread is fluffy, full of lemon flavour, and loaded with delicious fresh strawberries.
• Classic Lemon Blueberry Loaf Cake: A family favourite! It’s full of bright, tart lemon and sweet blueberry flavour! It’s also been shared on Pinterest over 54,000 times. Yay!

This Date Banana Nut Bread:

• Is delicious!
• Is easy to make: There are only nine ingredients!
• Vegan and refined sugar-free: Perfect for those with these dietary requirements.
• Is yeast free so you don’t need to proof the dough: No proofing means saving time because you don’t need to let the bread rise first.
• Uses ingredients that are usually easy to find at your local grocery store or are pantry staples.
• Is simple to put together: It takes around 10 minutes to put this loaf bread together. The majority of time it takes to make this banana bread is spent baking in the oven.
• Is shareable and portable: Share it with family, friends, or take it to work to share or eat as a snack.
• Is great to have for breakfast or dessert too: Serve it with a hot cup of coffee or tea or with a glass of milk.

Did you try this recipe? If you did, please leave me a rating and comment down below or tag me on any of my social media. I’m @yay_for_food on Instagram. I’d love a picture!

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