Chewy Vegan Banana Bread

Preparation: 1 hour

Active time: 20 minutes

Banana bread is just one of those things that's never a bad idea. It's dessert. It's breakfast. It's a snack. It's salvation. And best of all it is one of the easiest sweets to make vegan. No grinding flax seeds, no buying weird ingredients on Amazon, in this recipe the bananas are the eggs, holding together all the ingredients in a moist, fluffy masterpiece. The only "substitute" ingredient you'll need here is non-dairy milk, and we've got you covered. Home Planet caju milk has no fillers, no oils, and no preservatives. Made from organic, fair-trade cashews and lightly sweetened with dates, you'll never want to pronounce the word o-a-t again.

It's dessert. It's breakfast. It's a snack. It's salvation.

This recipe is a product of many years of practice in many horrible New York kitchens and it is, as such, battle-tested and infallible. Your studio kitchenette only has a toaster oven? No worries. Your heating isn't working and your apartment is below 50 degrees? Don't sweat it. Your cats have a tendency of accidentally switching the pre-heat temperature? Honestly, it'll be fine. Just keep an eye for when it rises, and bake it until a toothpick comes out clean. You might even get a moment of relief as your tap-dancing upstairs neighbors stop to smell the air, or a smile from the mean lady next door with the tiny tiny dog. Banana bread really is the world's great equalizer.

Chewy Vegan Banana Bread

Ingredients:

• 3 bananas

• 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil

• 1/4 cup Home Planet Caju Milk

• 1/2 cup coconut sugar

• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (buy the real stuff or make your own, google why at your own peril)

• 2 cups flour (whole wheat, gluten free, or white-- you do you girl)

• 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

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Instructions:

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees

2. Squish all the bananas together, leaving chunks per your personal preferences

3. Add the sugar, oil, vanilla, and milk

4. Mix it all together gently

5. Slooooowly add the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon

6. Mix it all together until it's uniform (I like to use a rubber spatula here but a spoon will do)

7. Place it in the oven and cook for 35-40 minutes (or until the dough is risen above the edge of the pan and a toothpick comes out clean)

8. Let it cool for 10 minutes in the pan and 15 out of the pan. I'm serious. Slap away those wandering hands and stand guard. If you do not let it cool it *will* *not* *be* *as* *good*

9. Slice that baby open and generously offer it to the desperate hoards that will have inevitably gathered at your door by now