Triple Berry Paleo Banana Bread is a crazy delicious yet super healthy dessert recipe. It's packed full of good for you ingredients like bananas, eggs, almond flour, collagen, and fresh berries. I like to eat a big slice for breakfast with my cup of coffee. It's also covered in a healthier paleo lemon glaze that is ridiculously delicious. Cause the only thing better than healthy banana bread is healthy paleo banana bread covered in glaze. Holy yum.
Ingredients
Paleo Banana Bread2 large ripe bananas, about 1 lb.
3 large eggs
2 tablespoons coconut oil, melted
Zest from 1 lemon + ¼ cup lemon juice
Optional: ¼ cup coconut sugar
1 ½ cups almond flour
½ cup tapioca starch
½ cup or 4 scoops Vital Proteins Mixed Berry Collagen Peptides (their unflavored version works well, too!),
1 teaspoon baking soda
¼ cup each: raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries (plus a couple extra for garnish)
Paleo Lemon Glaze½ cup raw cashews
¼ cup honey
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons water
Method* Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Line a loaf pan with parchment paper, allowing some extra to fold over the edges to make it easier to lift out the banana bread.
* Mash the bananas with a fork in a large bowl. Add the eggs, melted coconut oil, lemon zest and juice, and coconut sugar and whisk well.
* Add the almond flour, tapioca starch, Vital Proteins Mixed Berry Collagen Peptides, and the baking soda and stir until just combined. Do not overmix.
* Add the raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries and gently fold into the batter.
* Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and top with a few extra berries. Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Halfway through baking, cover the loaf with aluminum foil to prevent the top from browning too much.
* Let the banana bread cool for 10 minutes then carefully lift it out of the pan and finish cooling on a cooling rack. Drizzle with the lemon glaze.
Paleo Lemon Glaze* Place all the ingredients in a high powered blender and blend on high until smooth. If you have a regular blender, strain the glaze through a fine mesh sieve after you blend it so that it is smooth.