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5 from 2 votes

Ripe Plantain Bread/Cake (Vegan)

This Vegan Ripe Plantain Bread is a tasty spin on the classic banana bread. It’s a sweet and slightly dense bread flavored with warm spices.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time1 hour
Total Time1 hour 10 minutes
Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: Caribbean, Jamaican
Keyword: Plantain bread, Plantain cake, Ripe Plantain bread, Vegan plantain bread
Servings: 8
Author: Leondra Madden

Ingredients

  • 3/4 - 1 cup plant-based milk
  • 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg freshly grated or ground
  • 1 ½ cups ripe plantains overripe plantains are preferred 275g
  • 2 cups cake flour 240g
  • ½ cup almond flour 60g
  • ¾ teaspoons baking soda
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoon oil I used avocado oil
  • 1 tablespoon maple syrup

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350ºF (175ºC) and grease 9×5- inch loaf pan with oil.
  • In a measuring cup, add apple cider vinegar to plant-based milk. After ten minutes, the milk should appear lumpy.
  • In a large bowl, mash plantains using a fork and set aside. The dry ingredients will be added to this bowl later. You can blend the plantains if they are on the firmer side.
  • In a separate medium sized bowl, sift together cake flour, and baking soda. Then add the almond flour, salt, sugar, nutmeg and cinnamon in the same bowl. Mix well and set aside.
  • To the plantains in the large bowl, add vegan buttermilk, vanilla, and oil. Mix well.
  • Slowly incorporate dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. If you are adding nuts, dried fruits or chocolate chips into the batter, gently fold them in now. Stop mixing once all the flour is incorporated.
  • Pour your batter into your greased loaf pan.
  • Bake the bread in your oven for 60 minutes or until a toothpick placed in the middle comes out clean. Place on a cooling rack and let it cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Run a butter knife around the edges of the bread, place a plate over top your bread and gently flip it over. Use your hands to lift the bread over onto the cooling rack.
  • Allow the plantain bread to cool completely and enjoy!

Notes

  • You can use all purpose flour if you don’t have cake flour on your hands.
  • You can substitute almond flour for oat flour
  • You can add chopped nuts, chocolate chips, dried fruits, or seeds if you like.